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Ideas Matter - Women's Suffrage In New York State

    Today we speak with Sally Roesch Wagner, the Founding Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, which is partnering with the New York Council for the Humanities to planning a number of programs and events celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in New York State, which we will celebrate in 2017.

Next week, the Gage Foundation, New York Council, and other partners will be in Albany to talk to lawmakers about their plans for the celebration.

On March 10 at 6pm at The Linda, WAMC's performing arts space in Albany will host a New York Council for the Humanities conversation moderated by WAMC's Allison Dunne and featuring the historians Carol Faulkner, Laura Free, and Alison Parker. Following that, NY Humanities will have an evening of comedy by The Reductress, the first and only satirical news magazine for women. This will be held at the Lark Tavern in Albany, NY starting at 8pm.

In a radio career that has spanned nearly 35 years, Ray Graf has done it all. At one time or another he worked as an overnight board operator, a commercial copywriter, a reporter and a voiceover announcer. For several years - a lifetime ago - he was a morning drive disc jockey. Graf has been a member of the WAMC News team for 16 years. These days, he finds himself as The Roundtable's news anchor, panelist- and occasional guest host for Joe Donahue. "Radio news is not always easy," said Graf of his most recent radio vocation, "but it's not nearly as difficult as spinning a Michael Bolton record at 5:45 in the morning and pretending you're happy about it."
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