May 20, 2025, Honoring the Women Whose Shoulders We Stand Upon
Field trip to the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, a commemoration of all of the millions of little-known women who engaged in the suffragist movement from 1848 through passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that allowed most women to vote. This memorial is both a visual symbol and educational tool that elevates these individual to their proper place in history. Their stories beg to be told and you will find them here. The suffragists’ decades-long persistence resulted in the greatest expansion of democracy the world had ever witnessed when twenty-five million women won the right to vote with the stroke of a pen on August 26, 1920, now known as Women’s Equality Day.
Occoquan Regional Park, 9751 Ox Road, Lorton, VA 22079
Schedule for visit:
• Leave Fredericksburg at 9:00 AM
• Arrive about 10:00 AM
• Upon arrival: Tour the Memorial: Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
• Lunch at The Brickmaker’s Café: 11:45 AM Brickmakers Cafe
• Leave: 1:30 PM
• Arrival in Fredericksburg: 2:30 PM
Our group at the entrance.
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- Our group with the statue of Catt
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- Statue of Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and founder of the League of Women Voters
Form more information on Carrie Chapman Catt, click here.
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- Mary Eliza Church Terrell, co-founder of the NAACP and professor at Wilburforce College (Ohio), then instructor at the M Street Colored High School in Washington, D. C.
\For more information on Mary Eliza Church Terrell, click here.
Our group at lunch
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April 26, 2025, at 2:00 PM, AI Unleashed: The Future and Its Risks, with Jennifer Swann, Director of Information Security at Bloomberg. Location: Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Fredericksburg Branch,
1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA in Room 2 on the Lower Level.
Jennifer Swann with Janet Hedrick, April 26, 2025
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March 15, 2025, Analyzing the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Results with Stephen J. Farnsworth, PhD, is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington. Location: Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Fredericksburg Branch, 1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA in Room 2 on the Lower Level, 10:00 AM.
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February 22, 2025, “Caesar’s Wife Must Be Above Suspicion”: Politics, Religion, Sex, and Drama in Ancient Rome with Liane Houghtalin, Ph.D., Professor emerita of Classics at the University of Mary Washington. Location: University of Mary Washington, Combs 139, located on College Avenue near William Street, 2:00 PM.
Flyer for February 2025 program
Dr. Houghtalin, “Caesar’s Wife”