NOTE: The presentation will be held outdoors at Vail Headquarters. Bring your own chairs.
     It will subsequently be posted on our Facebook page for viewing later at your convenience.

Monday, June 28^th, at 7:00 p.m.  NOTE: This program is starting one hour later than our normal time of 6:00 p.m.

   Karen Michaud and Bonnie Martland will give a program titled Two Women Who Dared, focusing on two Suffragists who worked toward the passing of 19th Amendment of the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

Michaud, who will depict the Quaker Alice Paul, is a former Elementary School Principal in Murrieta. She is a founding member and a past president of the Murrieta Educational Foundation for the Arts.

Martland retired after teaching art and history in the Temecula United School district, a second career after serving as an officer in the US Army during the Viet Nam War era. She is a past president of the Temecula Valley Historical Society, is president of the Temecula Valley Museum Board, and is a docent at the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands.

Martland chose the character of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont who held suffragist events at her mansion, Marble House, in Newport, Rhode Island where Martland has visited several times. Belmont is known as “the unlikely suffragist” whose cantankerous, domineering, and strident personality is completely opposite of her Quaker counterpart’s manner.

Michaud and Martland emphasize their titles as suffragists, not suffragettes, which was a derogatory term during the lifetime of their characters.

Please bring lawn chairs for this presentation in the open air. Masks are optional and social distancing will be observed. Vail HQ eateries will be open for visitors’ enjoyment prior to the performance.

Please come to help us kick off our first in-person gathering in over a year.