Anne B. Gass

Anne B. Gass is the author of Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage (2014), a book about her great-grandmother. She speaks regularly on Florence and women’s rights history at libraries, museums, colleges, high schools, and other venues.

Anne has continued her great-grandmother’s activist tradition. She is the founder and principal of ABG Consulting LLC, a small business supporting nonprofits, local and state governments, and foundations in their efforts to help people in need build stable, productive lives. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Maine Suffrage Centennial Collaborative and as the Maine Coordinator for the National Votes for Women Trail, a project of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. She also serves on Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and is Vice-President of the Gray Town Council.

When not writing or volunteering, Anne can be found hiking, wild ice skating, back country skiing, or traveling with her husband, and spending time with family and friends.