Now approached Kathleen Farrell with the League of Women Voters, and the idea for Saturday’s Celebrate the Vote Festival was hatched.

“I had small-scale ambitions initially,” says Now. “But Kathleen said, ‘Let’s do one big event.’”

The morning kicks off with a re-creation of the Golden Lane in Pacific Parc, the park across the street from Central Library downtown. Anyone is welcome to join in, and participants are encouraged to wear white and yellow like the suffragists, symbolizing purity of purpose and courage.

“We want to bring different voices in, hit people where they are,” says Farrell, a retired communications professor at St. Louis University. “As the title says, we want to celebrate. It’s a joyous thing.”

The parade will be followed by a slate of speakers, local leaders who have made their mark on St. Louis: Adrian Bracy, the CEO of the YWCA; Build-A-Bear Workshop founder Maxine Clark; Ann Geraghty-Rathert of the Willow Project; Deb Lavender, a candidate for state representative; and Beth Stroble, the president of Webster University.

Stroble, a history buff, says she had not heard about the women of the Golden Lane until festival planners asked her to speak.