McFarland Historical Society Annual Meeting

press release: The year 2020 is important because of the presidential elections this year and also because it is the centennial of the passage of the 19^thAmendment, giving half the population (women) the right to vote.  Historian Simone Munson will speak at the McFarland Historical Society’s annual meeting on “The Woman’s Hour Has Struck: Wisconsin’s Role in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.”

The annual meeting will be held at the McFarland Municipal Building, 59l5 Milwaukee Street, on March 1, 2020, from 1 to 3 pm.  The meeting is open to the public and features a special video presentation about Ginny Dodson, the society’s Volunteer of the Year for 2019.  As a nod to the stubbornness of the brewery industry that lobbied against the vote for women, local beers and wines will be served – ironically!