PEARL
Time became marked not by the ticking of a clock, the turning of a calendar page, work, holidays, or even our children"s lives, but by the states… the yeas and the nays.
In the short two-and-a-half weeks since the Senate had passed the amendment, nine states had ratified it, including our neighbors in Massachusetts.
“Come along, Mary,” I cried up the stairs as I pulled on and buttoned my gloves, “I do not want to miss the early ferry. Aunt Ginny will be waiting and I want to get to the State House as early as possible.”
The day had come. It would be our first day, armed with a passed amendment, to stand before the State House and demand the Rhode Island government to ratify it. I"d be damned if after all our work – all our sacrifices and those we"d imposed upon our families and o
