“Suffragettes at the Saltair”

Salt Lake City, May 13, 1895 – Susan B. Anthony joins Emmeline Wells to advise young suffragettes on becoming “superiors in sagacity.” Afterwards, this restless set packs the 2:15 train and disembarks at The Great Saltair a mysteriously out-of-place boardwalk, fastened above the lake. The women begin to shed. Scattered across the boardwalk: laced corsets dainty socks hair pins feathered hats. Bare-skinned, the newly-minted sages catapult themselves into a tangerine skyline as they cannonball into the water together, holding hands and belly laughing. A sweeping, collective baptism casting a spell that stands unbroken over everything wild and sisterish in this, […]