RANDOLPH — The Randolph Historical Society will have as its guest speaker Joanne Mansfield of the Woman’s Day Event Committee of Lily Dale Assembly.

The society will meeet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Randolph Municipal Building, 72 Main St., Randolph.

The Women’s Day Event Committee has produced an informational and entertaining documentary film about Women’s Rights and the Suffrage Movement, Spiritualism and Lily Dale. The film features women associated with Lily Dale, including the Fox sisters, Susan B. Anthony and Mae West. The film is offered free through a lending program to local organizations.

Woman’s Day has been an integral part of the Lily Dale camp season from the summer the camp was incorporated. Beginning in 1887, Lily Dale, an early Spiritualist camp in Western New York, annually hosted suffragists on its Woman’s Day until the 1920.s. Thanks to the efforts of early local organizers like Marion Skidmore, Lily Dale attracted some of the biggest names in the national Suffrage Movement such as Susan B. Anthony, the Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt and others.

From its beginning, Woman’s Day has focused on the connection between Modern Spiritualism, started by women, and advancing the equality of women, in the greater society. During the past five years, the current Woman’s Day Event committee and the women of Lily Dale have pushed to create programming that recognizes the efforts of early women suffragists, pioneers in women’s rights over the years, the richness of diversity in the true history of women’s suffrage and Spiritualism’s historic connection to these issues.

The film showing is introduced by members of the Lily Dale Woman’s Day Committee members who are available to answer questions about Lily Dale and the making of the film.