This week is the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed women the right to vote. It was another year before it was ratified by the majority of states. It took another 10 years for the first woman to be elected to the NC Senate - she was from Jackson County. Ann McKee Austin of Cashiers has made it her mission to preserve her family’s history. She pulls out old photographs of her grandmother. “I wanted to make sure to show you these. You