03.29.2023 Around the Island Honoring an Island leader: Observing Women’s History Month Shelter Island can proudly claim Inez Milholland, known as “The Woman on the White Horse,” who led one of the first mass demonstrations for women’s suffrage in 1913, wearing...
03.02.2018 Around the Island What about the Equal Rights Amendment? Many women are saying ‘Me Too.’ Kamala Lopez earns her living as a Los Angeles-based actress and filmmaker. But in recent years, she has become something else: a full-fledged activist with a singular mission —...
08.17.2017 News An anniversary to cherish: The Island link to women’s suffrage There’s a Shelter Island connection between the fight for women’s suffrage in New York State, passed 100 years ago on August 18, 1917, and in the United States as...