MATTAPOISETT — Author Barbara Berenson will speak at the library on Saturday, March 7 at 2 p.m. in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote.

She will talk about her recent book "Massachusetts in the Women's Suffrage Movement" which reframes the story of the suffrage movement placing Massachusetts as the birthplace of the movement and recasting the important role of Lucy Stone alongside her more famous colleagues.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture, which is part of The Purrington Lecture Series sponsored by the Mattapoisett Library Trust.