Latest Past Events

THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE: GRAND RAPIDS WOMEN AND THE GREAT WAR

Meeter Center Lecture Hall

Calvin College History Colloquium! Upon U.S. entry into WWI, national women's groups transformed their organizational structures for war work. Grand Rapids women were among midwestern leaders whose pioneering efforts have […]

Janet Sheeres: The Wives (and Lives) of Early Dutch Pastors

Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids

Join us for a riveting account of the stories of early local pastors’ wives! When Janet Sjaarda Sheeres was editing a 700-page tome on early synod minutes of the Christian Reformed […]

Kent County Women and WWI’s Home Front Defense

Kent District Library - Cascade Branch

Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council President Melissa Fox will illustrate how in 1917 area women joined the largest wartime mobilization of their young country. Long-time ideas about food, children, […]