[MCN] Press Release

[Jeannette Rankin Peace Center]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Celebrate 100 years since Jeannette Rankin’s 1916 Election



Contact:              Betsy Mulligan-Dague, peace at jrpc.org or 406-543-3955

                             Available for interview: Allyson Adams,
allysonadams at mac.com



A staged reading of *Save The Country: How Belle Fligelman and Jeannette
Rankin Changed the World*, a new play by Allyson Adams will be held at the
Crystal Theatre on Saturday, November 12 at 7 pm. The play delves into the
emotional triangle between Jeannette, Belle and Welllington Rankin during
Rankin’s 1914 MT suffrage fight to her April 1917 “No” vote on WWI. Beer
and wine are available for sale and free cake will be served to celebrate
this momentous 100 year anniversary.



Teacher, author, playwright and actress Allyson Adams discovered U.S.
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin’s story in 1997 when she moved back to
Virginia City and discovered the biography “Flight of the Dove” by Kevin
Giles. With a Montana PBS docudrama and a decade of one-woman shows under
her belt, she is a Jeannette Rankin messenger for “Peace is a Woman’s Job.”



Whereas, previous works focused on six decades of Rankin’s life, “Save the
Country” is an emotional triangle during the three year period between
Montana’s Suffrage victory and Rankin’s first No vote. The play delves into
the relationship between Jeannette and her remarkable campaign manager,
Belle Fligelman, “the woman behind the woman,” and Wellington, Jeannette’s
Harvard educated brother and financier. Actress Amber Rose Mason will read
the part of Belle Fligelman, Allyson Adams as Jeannette Rankin and John
Hosking in the role of Wellington Rankin.



Within the span of three years, Jeannette led and won the fight for Montana
Suffrage, immersed herself in New Zealand’s labor movement, became the
first woman elected to any parliamentary body in the world and then voted
No against U.S. entry into WWI, thus declaring her place in history. A new
side of Jeannette Rankin emerges. She’s famous for her peace actions, but
she was about a lot more. She was at the beginning of the Progressive
Movement in the early 1900’s and her focus was on domestic issues for women
and children, equal pay, education and healthcare.



Please visit http://www.peaceisawomansjob.com or www.jrpc.org for more
about this remarkable woman.


Betsy Mulligan-Dague, Executive Director
Jeannette Rankin Peace Center
...working to build a world that is nonviolent, socially just and
environmentally sustainable...
519 S. Higgins
Missoula, MT 59801
Phone: 406-543-3955
Fax:  406-541-3997
peace at jrpc.org
www.jrpc.org
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