They comprised one-half of our town’s population, but women often worked behind the scenes until about a century ago.

Join us as BHS&M Historian Lucy Allen introduces some of the women whose cumulative efforts brought greater freedom and more job opportunities for women, and eventually, the right to vote! We will meet Catharine Brown of “Dr. Brown’s Institution,” “Farmerettes” who worked at the Gaston Estate during World War I, and women who replaced men in the industry at the Chas. G. Allen Co. and Barre Wool Combing Co. during World War II.