Historic re-enactor Lynne Garvey-Hodge, (Fairfax County [Virginia] History Commissioner) and member, Turning Point Suffrage Memorial Committee, portrays Suffragist, Mrs. Robert Walker (aka, Amelia Himes, Baltimore, Maryland).
In a one-person monologue, Mrs. Walker reveals the story of her arrest in front of the White House on July 14, 1917, subsequent incarceration at the Occoquan Workhouse and passionate participation in the Prison Parades of 1918 – 1919.
Hear her story as a Quaker woman, supported by her entrepreneur husband, her three children, life at her charming Baltimore estate, “Drumquhazle” and a member of Baltimore’s elite “Blue Book” society.
Ms. Garvey-Hodge is available to speak to woman’s clubs, universities, schools, and other interested organizations. She has presented to:
- League of Women Voter’s,
- Commonwealth of Virginia State Convention
- Turning Point Suffragist Memorial dedication
- Girl Scout troops
- High School groups
- George Mason University
- “Virginia Time Travel” Cox Cable program
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- American Association of University Women
She is passionate about woman’s suffrage and enjoyed the celebration in 2010 of the 90th Anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in the United States of America.