As soon as the US Senate passed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the Constitution on June 5, 1919, which extended the right of suffrage to women, proponents quickly organized the process of urging states to ratify the amendment. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of Missouri's ratification of the 19th Amendment on July 2, 1919.

Venture to one of Missouri's acclaimed cemeteries-- Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum -- and pay homage to some of Missouri's noteworthy suffragists and pick up a series of letterboxes celebrating their work.

While visiting STL, explore the newly designed park and museum on the St. Louis Arch grounds: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/gateway-arch-museum-st-louis-missouri/index.html

Plan to spend extra time at the cemetery searching for these letterboxes:
The Guiding Line and Tombstone Iconography as well as the Movers and Shakers collection which requires research in advance of visiting. All boxes planted in collaboration with cemetery staff.

NOTE: due to the big storms that swept through STL last week, there are a lot of trees down and clean up is in process. All roads were accessible at the time of planting.

Thanks. This gives ma a reason to make a day trip & not 4-hr. drive for a 10 min. BOM grab.

we have your area on our radar, now we need to do it!! LOL

I really need to head West

I "need" to go to St. Louis for some genealogy research.
I suppose that I could fit in a little LBing too ;)

If any of you go on a Friday, give me a heads up--I'd love to go with you. It's a 2-hour drive from home and I'm off on Fridays.

I want to go, please? Pretty please. I promise to be good, well I promise to try and be good. 😬😉

Of course Sue... You are more than welcome to come with us!