Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust Grant Awarded to Wilton Historical Society

This spring, the Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust awarded a grant in the amount of $9,500 to the Wilton Historical Society.

The generous funding is being used to develop and present the museum's first online exhibition - "Citizens At Last: Hannah Ambler, Grace Schenck and the Vote" which is to be available on the Historical Society website at the end of August. The exhibition is timed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

"We are extremely grateful to the Ambler Trust for supporting the exhibition," said Allison Sanders, Co-Director "as well as for their flexibility." The grant was approved just before the pandemic began to spread, and there was an immediate concern that the "traditional" exhibition planned might not be possible. "We were not even sure the museum would be open to the public - and indeed, we are still closed to visitors. So, we proposed a re-imagining of the exhibition to the Trust, and they were on-board with an online presentation immediately, which gave us a silver lining in an otherwise cloudy situation."

With the Suffrage exhibition online, it will be possible to share it more widely. The format creates an easily available resource for the public, the Wilton schools, and beyond.

Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Road, Wilton CT 06897 www.wiltonhistorical.org