A story from the annals of the women’s suffrage movement.

“If it hadn’t been for Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Woodstock might not be what it is today,” town historian Alf Evers told me one afternoon, speaking of the turn-of-the-century novelist, poet, nonfiction writer, feminist thinker, controversial social commentator and women’s suffrage activist.

Novel organizing techniques such as wagons took the women places in rural areas where they could otherwise not travel.