 The history of suffrage is very long, and it is checkered. And getting into this, you learn that it's complicated. So while on paper all women were given the right to vote all across the country in 1920, lots of women weren't able to vote because of barriers, especially Black women, indigenous women, other women of color, and other marginalized communities. And so this year, we're really giving an opportunity. Our program focuses on the experiences of not the white woman, especially the middle class woman. In some ways, I feel a little strange talking about this as a white middle class woman. But our program really is lots of individuals, all but Annette Gordon-Reed, our Vermonner, is living in Vermont, who have experienced voting from a different perspective. Annette Gordon-Reed is African-American. She is a native of Texas. She is a noted historian. Her book, The Hemmings of Monticello, an American family won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. And she also has a recent book on Juneteenth, and she will be the keynoter. But we have a Native American speaker, Melody Macon. We have Nia Schultz, who was the president of the Rutland Area NAACP chapter, and also works in advocacy for voting rights and equality. She's the emcee. She's really going to sort of weave together all the different elements of the program. She is also African-American. We have a poet and storyteller, Florence Parris-Mayer. We have a vocalist, popular and well-known vocalist, Nicole Nelson. And we have an artist. And she has started a painting called The Light of Truth Upon Them. And this is commissioned by the League of Women Voters of Vermont Education Fund and the Suffrage Alliance. And she started that, but she's going to continue working on it at the event on August 14. Saturday, Montpelier, three to five on the state house lawn. It's free. Bring your own chair or water. There aren't going to be any vendors there. And the rain site is actually in the house chamber in the state house. So she's going to be actually continuing the work on her painting at the event. We have a woman who's retired from Jean Silva from the UVM College of Medicine. And she's going to speak on gender inclusion. We have two high school students who are going to read personal essays about voting. So it's really going to be a very full program with perspectives that we believe a lot of people don't hear in Vermont all that often and that are part of our wonderful Vermont community and that we believe should be heard. It's been fun to observe this coming together by people who have different experiences and are willing to share them. We also have a filmmaker that's going to film the event. Plus it's going to be filmed by Orca, which is the public access station in central Vermont. We should be proud. We have both with same day voting on the day of the election, which includes same day registration. We can register online. People that are incarcerated can register by absentee. High school students that are going to be 18 by the time of the election, or they don't have to be in high school, but individuals who are going to be 18 by the time of the election can, or by the time of the primary, can register and vote. And we have very expansive early voting. You can, in fact, I believe it's optional for the towns, they can send ballots now to everybody or they can use the system before where you could request an early ballot or you could just go into your town or city clerk's office and get your ballot right there and vote and hand it in. So now compared to other states, probably the state that who's proposed changes are the most troubling and I'm not an expert on them, but is Texas, but there have been changes in Georgia. The one in Texas has not yet been enacted. That's an ongoing contest, I would say, between those that supported and those that don't. And then the Supreme Court has essentially supported some, I would say some negative conditions for voting in Arizona that I believe that decision is not a good one for really improving access, especially with our indigenous population, which is very large out there and they don't have a lot of post office boxes around or to mail a ballot back or voting places, I believe they're really limited who can take a mail-in ballot to a voting place. So it's a difficult time for voting rights in many parts of the United States. And that's another thing. We really want people to be aware of that. And there are ways you can get involved in trying to help things be as good as they are in Vermont. People don't have a lot to complain about in Vermont, especially when they think of what's happening elsewhere. So it's pretty good in Vermont. Well, Sandy, thank you. I know that the League of Women Voters is often unsung, but that you have supported open elections and widespread voting opportunities and the Vermont Suffrage Alliance is another outgrowth of that work and focuses on 100 years of suffrage for women, but not for everyone and how hard fought that those rights still are today. So thank you for bringing our attention to that and creating the celebration with your colleagues and we'll look forward to seeing the August 14th event. Great, I hope you can come and everybody that's watching, I hope you come too. But if you don't come, it'll be on various public media channels on shore. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Sandy, and we'll talk to you again. Good, thank you. Have a good day. You too.