To the Editor:

After watching the magnificent performance of “The Hello Girls” at Syracuse Stage, I must write about a missed opportunity. An article appearing in the program, “Sisters in Arms,” by Matthew Nerber, failed to note an important historical figure from right here in Central New York, Matilda Joslyn Gage.

Gage was born in Cicero, New York, in 1826 and moved to Fayetteville in 1854, where she lived until her death in 1898. Gage was a central figure in the fight for women’s rights and other social justice issues. She was the vital third part of the suffrage triumvirate along with the better-known Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who were mentioned in Nerber’s article. Most people, even those of us who often pass by her former home on Genesee Street, do not know

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