Ratified exactly 100 years ago today.
My grandmother and I talked about that day. She was teaching in Chemung County, New York, when the news came.
I asked her about her feelings when she heard about women’s right to vote being constitutionally guaranteed. She said it made her very happy, especially for a good friend who was a suffragette.
Seems like such a primitive time, and yet my life overlapped with that of a wonderful woman who lived it as an adult.
William Faulkner:
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Incredible, in a way, that this was only a century ago. So many things we take for granted now came surprisingly late in history.