by Lisa Dawsey Smith
Whitewater Banner Staff
whitewaterbanner@gmail.com

We’re teaming up with the Whitewater Historical Society to bring feature content from their social media account to the Banner for those who may not be regular Facebook users. Keep an eye out each Friday for a “Friday Flashback” featuring information and images from the Historical Society’s collection. A huge thank you to Lizzy Farrey and Carol Cartwright for their efforts in forging this partnership. The image above was featured Friday, August 21, 2020 to the Historical Society’s Facebook account with the following caption:

Happy #FlashbackFriday from the Whitewater Historical Society! 
This week we are honoring the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment this upcoming Wednesday (August 26th). Many Whitewater area citizens were active participants in the women’s suffrage movement during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Established in 1964, the local chapter of the League of Women Voters Whitewater Area has hung banners over Main Street for many years during election seasons. This image here, taken by the late local resident George Scharfenberg in about the mid-1990s, depicts one of their banners reminding people to vote.

The Whitewater Historical Society collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Whitewater and the surrounding area. Be sure to join us next week for more from the Society’s collections. Please “like” us on Facebook and check out our website at www.whitewaterhistoricalsociety.org!​