On March 2, 1870 the Boston Post reporter Sallie Joy visited town and wrote “Brattleboro has had a fire and a flood, and now it has a Woman Suffrage Convention. I saw an old farmer yesterday with the inevitable blue woolen frock and cart whip snugly stowed under his arm, reading one of the posters announcing the meeting. Patiently he waded through it, then turned on his heel and wondered aloud, ‘What in the thunder’ll come next.’”
The young reporter, originally from Brattleboro, went on to write that no one was able to tell the old farmer what might happen next but she offered that local women might see the push for women's rights as the Biblical coming of the Millennium…a time when all wrongs would be put right and all evils would be cleansed from the earth. Here's her story...
