Join the 2021 Suffrage Auto Tour
July 31   August 7   August 14   August 21

The suffrage centennial auto tour will feature antique automobiles motoring suffragists from town to town and stopping at several sites in the Champlain Valley - in New York and Vermont. There will be pageants, olde time rallies, ice cream socials, broom brigades, suffrage exhibits, and more. Let's rev up and drive forward!
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Why a Suffrage Auto Tour?
Consider this photo and quotes from the New York Tribune, August 30, 1914, Section III, page 5:

“Carrying Suffrage’s Message Into the Hills” 

“Deep in the hills, and scattered in the little villages of Essex County, is a community rapidly being won over to the cause of woman’s suffrage through the unceasing efforts of Mrs. George Notman and her assistant Miss Louise Taylor.” In doing home-to-home canvases in July and August, Notman covered about 1,500 miles of mountain roads in her motor car.

“Essex County is a forty-one-mile square” so there is a lot of travel required for a county with only 10,000 voters. “Not long ago, we addressed gatherings at Westport, at Elizabethtown and a small place near Keene Valley, covering ninety-one miles in that one day.

Mrs. Notman said, “I use my own automobile for that is the only way in which we can get around.”

“Do you travel every day?” someone asked.

“Oh, dear no,” laughed Mrs. Notman. “You see the machine must rest some days, when its carburetor won’t work, or when its tires are inconsiderate.”

Amendment XIX of the U.S. Constitution:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

A Champlain Valley 
CHAMPION 
of the Woman Suffrage Movement

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This project has been funded by an agreement awarded by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to NEIWPCC in partnership with the Lake Champlain Basin Program.