2019- marks the 100th anniversary (in Michigan) of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the U.S. A Brief History of Voting in the United States: 1776 Only land-owning men could vote. 1848 Abolutionists and pro-suffrage groups meet to organize for women’s vote A Century of Fine Cinema 1856 Vote granted to all White Men. JULY 2019 1868 14th amendment grants African American citizenship, but not right to vote. All Movies and Events are Eastern Time Zone 1870 15th Amendment grants African American men the right to vote. 1872 Susan B. Anthony & Soujourne Truth are arrested or turned away for trying to vote. 1890 Wyoming becomes the first state to grant women the right to vote. 1920 19th amendment grants suffrage to women. However, historians note that voting remained inaccessible for women of color for several decades following the passage of the 19th amendment. 1924 Indian citizenship Act passed giving full citizenship to Native Americans , which were still disenfranchised at the polls 1952 McCarren-Walter Act grants all Asian Americans the right to become citizens and vote. 1961 22nd amendment gives DC residents the right to vote for president but not congressional representatives. 1965 Congress passes the historic Voting Rights Act, removing discriminatory barriers that kept many people of color from voting. 1971 Voting age is lowered from 21 to 18 in light of the Viet Nam war/if you are old enought to fight, you are old enough to vote. 1993 National Voting Registration Act is passed making it easier to vote by registering at DMV and other public assistance centers 2000 A federal rule states that Citizens of Puerto Rico and Guam cannot vote in federal elections. Library of .Congress CONVERSATIONS WITH A SUFFRAGIST Summer Hours: (Featuring Megan Burnett) Open 7 days a week all summer long A Live Performance 6 North Elm Street, Three Oaks, MI 49128 September 18th 3:00 pm at the Vickers www.vickerstheatre.com 269-756-3522 September 19th 7:30 pm at the Box Factory for the Arts, St. Joseph MI Tickets on sale at each venue THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM Harbor Country Progress & the Vickers Theatre 1hr 31 min Rated PG presents the Community Movie: 06/28 Friday 6:15 pm 07/03 Wednesday 7:00 pm 06/29 Saturday 6:15 pm 07/04 Thursday 7:00 pm DO YOU TRUST YOUR COMPUTER (2018) 06/30 Sunday 6:15 pm 07/05 Friday 9:00 pm 1hr 40min Not Rated 07/01 Monday 6:15 pm 07/06 Saturday 3:00 & 9:00 pm 07/07 Sunday 3:00 pm Climate change is never explicitly mentioned in the yields; coyotes terrorize the chickens, killing many. Tuesday, Augustv 6 7:00 pm documentary “The Biggest Little Farm,” one of the year’s Periods of drought prove formidable challenges. Solutions best films, but it hangs all over the deep, rich story of the become “eureka” moments. “Observation followed by Chesters, a pair of hardscrabble idealists who move from creativity is becoming our greatest ally,” John says.As Free Admission the concrete jungle of Santa Monica to start a 200-acre, John and Molly learn, we learn. Benefiting from Group discussion following the movie sustainable farm from scratch. Eventually including some exceptional wildlife photography and cinematography, 10,000 orchard trees and more than 200 different kinds of “The Biggest Little Farm” is a layered and rich experience, We’ve opened Pandora’s box: We’ve unleashed glossy images make “Do You Trust This crops, with a wide variety of animals, Apricot Lane Farms full of life and renewal — and death. “Our farm is forces that we can’t control, and we can’t stop. Computer?” a sleek and engaging watch. Sections can be seen as a microcosm of planet Earth. But even energized by the impermanence of life,” John realizes. We’re in the midst of essentially creating a new life on the possibility of artificial consciousness would within the confines of their spread are the seeds of an epic Earlier this month, the United Nations released a sweeping form on Earth.”Had that quote come at the start of flabbergast even Philip K. Dick. Still, anxiety runs movie that was nearly a decade in the making and boasts a scientific report concluding that human civilization is cast of thousands (most of them non-human). John and speeding the extinction of a million species, altering the “Do You Trust Your Computer”, you might think it underneath most of its mind-blowing ideas. We’re Molly are a young married couple who want to live a natural world in a way that will drastically impact hyperbole. Yet it’s said at the end. By then the told that we may be just a few years away from meaningful life. He is a wildlife photographer — and also humanity. We already know that modern farming practices remark seems an understatement. This part-scary, technologies that are beyond human control. Worry the director of this film — and she is a chef and foodie are a significant contributor to climate change. In its part-spellbinding documentary, directed by Chris about that if you like, though in the words of one blogger. When they are evicted from their apartment (their modest way, “The Biggest Little Farm” offers hope, and rescue dog won’t stop barking), they decide to turn a hazy even suggests a way forward. It is hard to survive in a Paine (“Who Killed the Electric Car”), talks to a researcher here: “I’m not sure it’s going to help.” dream of working a farm into immediate action. They find world devoid of biodiversity. Why not work with nature, gaggle of experts about current artificial Ken Jaworowski, New York Times investors — many of them friends and family — and buy instead of against it? C. Alan Johnson, SanFrancisco intelligence and about what the future appears an abandoned farm about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. Chronicle destined to bring. Their warnings are so dire that The place is virtually dead, but for the weeds. The topsoil is unsuited for growing crops, thanks to previous owners’ you may start peering sideways at your cellphone, monofarming or monocropping, a widely accepted wondering what it’s thinking. Elon Musk, Ray agricultural method of planting the same crop each year Kurzweil and others outline the power of big data that can lead to higher yields but eventually strips the soil of its nutrients. What existing structures remain are and existing computer systems, and describe how dilapidated. The Chesters can’t even start from scratch; to such technologies have already manipulated world do that, they must destroy what is there first. As newbies, events, particularly recent elections. Worse yet are they need guidance and are led to a farm whisperer, Alan predictions that robots will displace millions of York, whose hiring proves to be their most important decision. His vision, which will take years of hard, workers, and that autonomous weapons could wage complex work to implement, is to create an internal unsupervised war. Though the film is heavier on ecosystem. It will be painstaking at first, but will (Alan summaries than specifics, its messages are says) become easy to run, “like surfing.” The Chesters troubling nonetheless. To avoid a nonstop blow through their first-year budget in six months. Among their first purchases are a pregnant pig, Emma, some cattle scarefest, Mr. Paine throws in a few old movie and goats. They begin producing manure crucial to clips and allows for a bit of optimism. But the reloading the soil with nutrients. Chickens producing interviewees aren’t budging, and the soundtrack organic eggs are some of their first best-sellers.But sets a consistently menacing tone. Slick cuts and problems abound. Snails and gophers threaten their fruit Harbor Country Progress & the Vickers Theatre PAVAROTTI presents the Community Movie: 1hr 54min Rated PG-13 07/26 Friday 6:00 pm 07/31 Wednesday 7:00 pm 07/27 Saturday 6:00 pm 08/01 Thursday 7:00 pm WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? 07/28 Sunday 6:00 pm 08/02 Friday TBA 1hr 47min Not Rated 07/29 Monday 6:00 pm 08/03 Saturday TBA 07/30 Tuesday 7:00 pm 08/04 Sunday TBA Tuesday, July 2 7:00 pm Ron Howard may be the least Italian human being husband is commendable, and daughter Guiliana, on planet Earth. But the director pays fitting, if also who almost died in childhood and was her father’s Free Admission Group discussion following the movie at times predictable and fulsome tribute to favorite. Nicoletta Montovani, who married Luciano Pavarotti in his documentary “Pavarotti.” Pavarotti despite a 34-year age difference, speaks of What is Democracy? asks a seemingly simple, students without any of them losing their attention The tenor was the most famous, popular and their daughter, who was born when the tenor was fundamental question about democracy that leads or falling asleep. It should be mandatory viewing remarkable opera star of his time as well as a 60. Also on camera are Pavarotti’s Three Tenors to a complex array of answers that lead to even for all high school students and for anyone who philanthropist, whose worldwide legacy still thrives “band” members, Placido Domingo and Jose more provocative questions. If you think that cares about the future of America. Someone I once after his death in 2007. Born in Modena, Italy, the Carreras. Of course, the film is drenched in the democracy is working well in America, think knew shockingly claimed, in all seriousness, that son of a baker, young Luciano studied to become an sound of artist’s greatest arias, as well as clips of again.