Marching for women's suffrage, New York City, Oct. 1915 • George Grantham Bain Coll. (Library of Congress)

Welcome to the web home of the Benzie Area Women's History Project. This group, based in Benzie County, Michigan, is comprised of area women dedicated to educating ourselves and others about the women of our past, women whose voices are not always heard.

For the last 30 years we've presented an annual event, usually held in March, celebrating women's history. This year we have two—a film in March and our 30th annual program in late April.

To celebrate International Women's Day this year, we showed an award-winning documentary, The Harvest, at the Garden Theater in Frankfort on Thursday, March 8, in conjunction with a reception at the new Oliver Art Center (formerly Crystal Lake Art Center) in Frankfort for an exhibit featuring regional women artists.

We will have a second event, Toward a New Definition of Peace: Women and the Nobel Prize, this year on Saturday, April 28, at the Benzonia Congregational Church. In addition to music and workshops and lunch, there will be a presentation featuring local women portraying twelve of the fifteen female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Anyone on our mailing list should have received a mailed letter and registration form in early April. There is also one available to download here. If you'd like to be on our mailing list, see the contact page.

We also fund a yearly scholarship for a non-traditional female student at Northwestern Michigan College. This year's recipient is Andrea M. Pellicci of Elk Rapids.

http://www.bawhp.org
last update April 15, 2012