Hi everyone, two bonus items for the local history fans out there! 

Firstly, remembering a historic anniversary; it was 108 years ago today, on November 7, 1917, that women’s suffrage was adopted in New York State; three years before it became a national law. 

For many of us it is startling to realize that when our grandmothers were born, women couldn’t vote as, from a historic perspective, 108 years isn’t a long period of time.  

Here are a few local/regional front page newspaper stories about the success of the 1917 New York Suffrage vote: 

And onto our our intro to historic markers video. This video shows only the metal historic markers, with blue and gold paint, that are located in the City of Corning, New York. I’m working on an PowerPoint/video that features all the historic markers in the City of Corning and will post that too, to the blog, as soon as I finish it.

Here is the video:

And a PDF of the pages shown in the video in case anyone prefers that format and/or wants to print the pages:

Our usual weekly local history posting will be out tomorrow —

Have a great day,

Linda Reimer, SSCL