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- Dot Emer on Trial Ride with Sophie and Happy Birthday Frances Perkins
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Video is done!
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Legacy is Remembered in New York City,” a short video that I wrote and narrated and that was edited by Milena Jovanovitch is done!! Great fun to do, more to come! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimCgL5MlCU&feature=youtu.be You can also see it … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New York City, The Stanton, Video, Woodlawn
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Marriage equality
Just read the news that President Obama has finally evolved to the point of supporting marriage equality! Congratulations & kudos to him and to all the people, including his daughters & staff members in same sex relationships, who helped him … Continue reading
Skype book talk
On May 1, I did a first – – talked with a book group, the Red Tent Book Club, Seneca Falls, NY, via Skype. It was great fun! Judy Pipher, who coordinated the event posted this on the book Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Author Visits
Tagged book club, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Skype
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Birds and Writing
My basement office has a window with a view of our bird feeders, so I can take writing breaks by watching the birds . . . our regulars – – a red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, cardinals, titmice, nuthatches, sparrows, mourning … Continue reading
Posted in My Books
Tagged Frances Perkins, hard hat, Mount Holyoke, Tomlin Coggeshall
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Friendships
Friendships were important in the lives of all the historic women I’ve written about. Dorothea Dix, fierce advocate for humane treatment of people with mental illness and head of Civil War nurses, wrote in a poem for her lifelong friend … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Perkins, Friends, Susan B. Anthony
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Trial Ride with Sophie and Happy Birthday Frances Perkins
I’m going on a trail ride with my granddaughter Sophie (she’s on Spring break) tomorrow, April 10th, and you can be sure, I’ll remember to tell her that it’s the birthday of Frances Perkins, the first woman in the U.S … Continue reading
Before I sat down for an hour-long conversation with Kent Pavelka, host of “Metro & More,” a television show in Omaha, Nebraska, he asked me if I had read “My Antonia” and did I know that the Antonia was based … Continue reading
Historic Event and Sleep-over
Today, March 25th, is the 101st anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire in New York City, in which 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women died. I first learned about it while doing research for my biography of Frances Perkins, … Continue reading