Programs with the Medfield Council on Aging: Special programs for March Common Content The Medfield COA is at 1 Ice House Road. Staff is on hand to answer questions by phone (508-359-4810) or email (rlynch@medfield.net). Women’s Suffrage Movement program In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8, Dr. Gary Hylander, PhD, will once again entertain and enlighten us with American history. Join us on March 8 at 2:30 p.m. as Hylander explores the journeys many had to take on their way to the ballot box. It took 72 years for women to win the right to vote, after suffragists first rallied at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. The battle was long, heart-felt and sometimes bitter, but the 19th Amendment was finally ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, in the wake of the Spanish Flu pandemic.