JVLaB

Re-creating the Suffrage Debate, Nashville, February 2006

Presidential Suite, Historic Hermitage Hotel,
under portraits of Old Hickory, Andy Johnson & James Knox Polk
(and, blessedly, not Estes Kefauver…)*,
overlooking the Tennessee State Capitol Bldg.
- site of ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution,
securing Universal Suffrage for da Laydeez, by a single vote.
Nashville, February 2006

(Letting Scotch simmer in a snifter, it suddenly dawns on JVLaB that, in this very room, doing the same with recently relegalized similar spirits, stodgy Southern pols may have debated the controversy back in 1920. And, JVLaB indulges himself)

JVLaB a la stodgy Southern pol, in a genteel drawl (ripped from the pages of a Peter Taylor story):
“But, if we grant the Fair Sex the Suffrage, we’ll have to reconfigure the ballot boxes to accommodate hoop skirts…and that could cost upwards into the TENS of dollars!”

NOTE: Fmr. GalPal, then a Corcoran design student, upon hearing JVLaB self-satisfiedly recount his quip, drafted plans for a so-reconfigured, hoop-skirt amenable voting booth, alas now lost to the ether.

* Bet ya thought I’d, make an Al Gore joke, instead, didn’t ya?