Great Falls Honors 9/11 Heroes

Page, 8 Classifieds, Page 14 Classifieds, v Entertainment, Page 12 v Great Falls Opinion, Page 6 Honors 9/11 Heroes News, Page 4 Turning Point Suffragist Answering the Call: Friends of the Great Falls Freedom Memorial president Andy Wil- son asked for a volunteer to lead the assem- Memorial for Women bly in song. Richard Kuntz stepped up and his voice and spirit added to the spirit of the Who Led Fight for Vote Great Falls commemoration of Sept. 11. News, Page 3 Requested in home 9-20-18 home in Requested Time sensitive material. material. sensitive Time Attention Postmaster: Postmaster: Attention ECR WSS ECR St. Francis Episcopal Customer Postal permit #322 permit Easton, MD Easton, PAID Church to Host Fall Fest Postage U.S. News, Page 5 STD PRSRT Photo by Andrea Worker/The Connection Worker/The by Andrea Photo September 19-25, 2018 online at www.connectionnewspapers.com 2 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Turning Point Suffragist Memorial To Be Built $2 million project to be dedicated on Aug. 26, 2020 at Occoquan Regional Park. By Steve Hibbard did not feel equal. That’s why this move- The Connection ment got going,” she said. Wirth mentioned the contributions of $2 million National Turning Point Susan B. Anthony, of New York state, who Suffragist Memorial is slated to dedicated her entire life to suffragists. In Abe built in time for dedication on 1851, she marched into a polling place and Aug. 26, 2020 at Occoquan Re- attempted to vote but she was thrown on gional Park near the Occoquan River, said the sidewalk, manhandled and arrested for Patricia Depew Wirth, who is the Executive the crime of voting. “She had a trial, was Director of the Turning Point Suffragist Me- found guilty of voting but never went to morial Association. The memorial planned jail. She was a wonderful woman to be reck- near the Jean R. Packard Events Center is oned with,” she said. intended to honor the 5 million women who Mary Church Terrell, the founding mem- fought for women’s suffrage. ber of NAACP in 1909, was the first African On Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, Patricia American woman to go to college, Wirth Depew Wirth told 40 members and guests said. Terrell went to Oberlin, was a teacher, of AAUW Springfield-Annandale branch at principal, and member of the Delta Sigma Kings Park Library in Burke that the memo- Theta sorority. rial will contain various elements that all Patricia Depew Wirth, Executive Director of the Turning Point Suffragist Another woman, Carrie Chapman Catt, have a basis in suffragist history. There will Memorial Association, shows plans for the Memorial. was involved in National American Woman be replicas of the White House gates and a Suffrage Association and founder of the wall to honor the women who were jailed League of Women Voters in 1920. She fo- in Occoquan Prison with plaques for each. cused on getting the vote state by state, by It will also contain 19 information stations establishing offices in every state. She came that will tell 72 years of the history of the out with “The Winning Plan” strategy that Suffrage Movement, from 1848 to 1920. involved getting an Amendment to the Con- The memorial will include a bridge to stitution and turned all those state offices “bridge the two centuries” that it took to into the League of Women Voters. get the women’s right to vote. Rotunda pil- Wirth mentioned Alice Paul, the co- lars will represent Democracy. The memo- founder of the National Woman’s Party, a rial will also contain a meditation garden Quaker from New Jersey, who authored the and interactive kiosks. Equal Rights Amendment in 1923. “She So far, Turning Point has received roughly became aware of the Suffragette movement $1 million in-kind and cash donations; in England overseen by Pankhurst family,” Fairfax County donated $200,000 towards she said. Paul marched with them, went to it, but it is still short on needed funding to jail, went on hunger strikes and met Lucy complete the project. Some of The Turning Burns. Point’s strategic partners include: AAUW, Alice Paul, who co-founded the National League of Women Voters, and NOVA Parks, Women’s Party with Lucy Burns, was a bril- which is donating the land and the per- An artist’s rendering of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. liant strategist who felt we needed an petual maintenance of the facility. Donate amendment to the constitution. at www.suffragistmemorial.org votes all of her time to building the memo- icons Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia “She felt without it, women in the South In addition to the Memorial, they are de- rial, gave a presentation of the movers and Mott, who met in 1840 in London, England, would never get the vote. She knew what veloping a Constitution Trail starting at the shakers in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. to attend an international abolitionist con- she was talking about,” Wirth said. National Archives, going to Mount Vernon, starting with an audio of the Declaration of vention. In 1913, Alice Paul planned the March Gunston Hall, Montpelier and to the Turn- Sentiments — the document that changed “Many early suffragists were abolitionists. down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, ing Point Suffragist Memorial. course of women’s lives in Seneca Falls, N.Y., In that period of time, if you were married, D.C., where between 5,000 and 9,000 people in 1848. It was signed by 68 women and you belonged to your husband. … Women marched in a parade for women’s rights. WIRTH, who worked in the automotive 32 men at the convention. were limited in their ability to get higher service industry for 30 years, and now de- She talked about the contributions of education and get into the professions. They See Historic Fight, Page 15 shall not be denied or abridged by the two-thirds majority in both the Senate Next Step for Equality United States or by any state on account of and the House of Representatives, fol- After the 19th Amendment affirming limit was extended by Congress to June 30, sex. lowed by ratification by three-quarters women’s right to vote was ratified in 1982, but at that deadline, the ERA had Section 2. The Congress shall have the of the states), and 1920, suffragist leader Alice Paul intro- been ratified by only 35 states, three states power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, ❖ the “three-state strategy” (ratifica- duced the ERA in 1923 as the next step short of the 38 required to put it into the the provisions of this article. tion in three more of the 15 state legis- in bringing “equal justice under law” to Constitution. Section 3. This amendment shall take ef- latures that did not ratify the ERA in all citizens. The proposed Equal Rights Now, Virginia could be the last state fect two years after the date of ratification. 1972-82, based on legal analysis that Amendment (ERA) states that the rights needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amend- when three more states vote yes, this guaranteed by the Constitution apply ment, which would pass on the floor of the The ERA has been introduced into every process could withstand legal challenge equally to all persons regardless of their House and the Senate in the session begin- Congress since the deadline, and beginning and accomplish ratification of the ERA). sex. ning Jan. 9, 2019, if opponents don’t pre- in 1994, ERA advocates have been pursu- Virginia could be the third and final state In 1972, the ERA was finally passed vent the vote by tying it up in committee. ing two different routes to ratification: needed to pursue this strategy were the by Congress and sent to the states for The Equal Rights Amendment Verbatim: ❖ the traditional process described in Equal Rights Amendment to pass in the ratification. The original seven-year time Section 1. Equality of rights under the law Article V of the Constitution (passage by a 2019 General Assembly session. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 ❖ 3 News Respect and Devotion to 9/11 Heroes James Ye, from Boy Scout Troop 55, says he has never played his Great Falls residents violin in such a public forum. If that’s the case, he must have remember the fallen practiced a lot – his renditions of the National Anthem, “America the neighbors. Beautiful,” “Amazing Grace,” and Photos by Andrea Worker/The Connection “God Bless America” were perfect By Andrea Worker A candle held and a bell rung for each of the six Great Falls residents and brought tears to the eyes of The Connection who died on 9/11. several in attendance. oble men and women of our land have stepped “N forward and offered their lives to defend this treasure. We now show our respect and devotion to these heroes.” Those were the words of the late Marine Corps Colonel (Retired) Pete Hilgartner. After attending a candlelight 9/11 remembrance vigil on the Great Falls Green in 2002, Hilgartner felt compelled to ensure that a more fitting and permanent site be constructed. Well-used to taking command, Hilgartner co-founded the Friends of the Great Falls Freedom Memorial and galva- nized a volunteer army to construct the Memorial, dedicated in 2004, behind the Fairfax County Board of Supervi- Great Falls Public Library. sors Chairman Sharon Bulova read This year’s 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony from her personal journal, written was supposed to be held at the Memorial.

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