The Lucy Burns Museum at the Workhouse Arts Center is proud to present the second season of Learning at Lunch, a series illuminating aspects of the former prison’s 91-year history. Each month, we invite an expert to tackle a topic from our complicated past. After a brief 30-minute talk, presenters answer audience questions, and all attendees are invited to visit the museum following the program. Table seating provided and attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch; snacks and beverages available for purchase.

As Women’s Equality Day approaches consider the role the Workhouse played in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, holding over 70 of the suffragists who picketed the White House. There were other suffragists never arrested or jailed who contributed to the movement in other and equally important ways. Among them were a rainmaker, a cartoonist, and a lady with a typewriter and a telephone. Author and long-term museum volunteer Kenena Spalding highlights their contributions.

Future talks in the series:

Friday, September 27, Noon

Cold War Virginia with Francis Gary Powers Jr.