Below are some of the chapter events. Our meetings are typically the fourth Tuesday of the month from April to November. Contact us for more information.
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE RALLY
On September 22, 2020, Maine’s Topsham Brunswick chapter commemorated both Constitution Week and the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage by holding a Women’s Suffrage Rally. Held outside in front of the local Veterans Council, members presented a skit commemorating the anniversary of Women’s Suffrage and the passing of the 19th amendment (ratified on August 18, 1920), giving women the right to vote. While other chapter members (many in costume) held signs supporting suffrage, rang bells and cheered, suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and journalist Nellie Bly presented their arguments for giving women the franchise. Portraying the opposing side, anti-suffragist J.B. Sanford, who wrote in 1911, “Women’s suffrage has been proven a failure in states that have tried.” True to history, the suffragists won that argument!
- CHAMBERLAIN EXTERIOR WORK REACHES FINAL STAGE
Since 2018, we’ve been working on restoring, repairing, and rebuilding portions of the Chamberlain Museum exterior–the most comprehensive work on the building in three decades.In the last few weeks, we reached an important milestone: the final face of the building, also its most important: the front side, along Maine Street.
A great deal of thanks and commendation are due to Tony Simmons Carpentry (now working from scaffolding pictured right), Mid Coast Painting (owner Bill Costa above left, after his crew completed the north side), and our many funders: the Davis Family Foundation, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, the Novack Family Foundation, Bowdoin College, the Viles Foundation, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and numerous generous individuals.We look forward to a big celebration (physical distant, virtual, whatever) when we reached the conclusion of this multi-phased project–late this year or the first half of next.
- – Pejepscot Historical Society
- FIRST LADIES
- Becky Beaulieu, Historical Houses
- David Greenham, the Program Director for the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, spoke about WWI.
- Maine Bureau of Veteran Services encouraged all veterans to visit one of their branches
- Summer Tea – Celebration of Members
- Laura Benedict from the Red Barn
- Memorial Day Parade
- DAR Good Citizens
- Freeport Flag Ladies