Pink and Brown

 "If I go into this fight, I am going to win. There will be no mincing matters, no pink-tea policies. It will be a regular man's kind of campaign, stump speaking, spread-eagle and all." — Margaret Brown When Margaret Brown (aka the "Unsinkable Molly Brown") ran for public office — three times — she wanted everyone to know she was as serious about politics as any man on the ballot. Brown didn't win those seats, but she was an important figure in the women's suffrage movement, and a new exhibit at the Molly Brown House Museum, No Pink Tea Politics, commemorates her political life.

"Part of it is a way to celebrate and commemorate the Democratic National Convention that was here 100 years ago, in 1908," explains museum director Annie Robb Levinsky. "We started looking into where Margaret Brown was that year and what was happening."

No Pink Tea opens today at the museum, 1340 Pennsylvania Street; artifacts from other female movers and shakers of the time have also been loaned to the museum for the display. Several special adjunct events are planned, including a combination women's suffrage/birthday celebration for Brown on July 19, a presentation about the 1908 convention on August 13, and a special tea in honor of this year's DNC on August 29. The exhibit is included in museum admission, $4 to $7; for information, call 303-832-4092 or visit http://mollybrown.org.
May 20-Oct. 15, 2008