Speeches & Receptions

This week is a full women’s history week: on Tue., 3/20, I give my “Celebrating Women” program to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC; on Wed, I’m going with a group representing the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center to Representative Nancy Pelosi’s event at the Rayburn Room, US Capitol honoring Senator Barbara Mikulski as the longest-serving woman in Congress; and on Thursday, I’m speaking at the Rutgers EcoComplex in Bordentown, NJ, at the Day of Diversity sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resource Conservation Service in NJ.

 

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Link to my radio interview

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/31voicesmarch/2012/03/08/visionaries-elizabeth-cady-stanton-susan-b-anthony Continue reading

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Live blogtalkradio interview

Tomorrow, International Women’s Day,  I’ll  be doing a live, 30-minute interview with Melissa A. Rosati on blogtalkradio.
She plans to “focus our conversation around women finding voice, how Elizabeth and Susan did that for themselves . . . also my insights on their leadership styles and ways of resolving conflicts.”  Also she is going to ask me a question she asks everyone she interviews–”What is the best piece of advice your mother gave to you?” That one has me stumped because my mother was more a doer than an advice-giver, guess I’ll say that.  If you have an answer to that question, please feel free to post it.  The call-in number to the interview is: 626 414-3577

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Radio Call-In on International Women’s Day

I’m doing an interview/call-in with Melissa A Rosati on March 8, International Women’s Day.  The link takes you to info about the show, plus the call-in number.  If the time works for you, please do call-in your questions/comments. I’d love to talk with you!

Melissa A Rosati http://www.blogtalkradio.com/31voicesmarch/2012/03/08/visionaries-elizabeth-cady-stanton-susan-b-anthony

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Audio and Other Resources

In the Fall, I recorded information about doing research and background for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World for TeachingBooks.net, a terrific jammed-packed-with-resources website for readers/students/teachers. I also recorded a pronunciation guide for my name (a standard feature for all the authors listed). Sophie provided me with the ending for that clip.  Resources for some of my other books are also on the web site: Here’s a link to the audio: http://www.teachingbooks.net/book_reading.cgi?id=7015

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Rosie the Riveter

Several months ago the editor of On*Patrol, the Magazine of the USO asked if I would write an article about my book Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on The Home Front in World War II. Yes, of course, I would & did.  Today, on my Facebook page, the editor just posted a link to my piece, titled  “Keeping America Running: Women in World War II,” in the Spring 2o12 issue of On*Patrol, the Magazine of the USO.  You can follow the link at http://on.fb.me/flGdOa

 

 

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New Book Talk

I just finished a new book talk with a PowerPoint for my presentation in Washington, DC next week at the monthly meeting of the Clearinghouse on Women’s Issue.  For this one I wrote eight summaries of the achievements/contributions of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and put forth what I think is the essence of their legendary friendship.  That took several very long days, plus editing & revising to get it to fit into my time slot, a process that takes sooo much time, but totally engages me, so much so that the processing continues in my brain while I’m grocery shopping, walking, standing in line at the post office, etc.  But tonight I think I finally got it where I want it–hurrah!!!!  Sophie is away for winter break, as are Linda’s grandchildren so we’re off to Philadelphia on Friday to see the Van Gogh exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art!  The snowdrops are up, crocuses & forsythia on the way, as are the daffodils–Spring in February!

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Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony!

Today–February 15th–is Susan B. Anthony’s 192nd birthday; there are great festivities in Rochester, including at her gravesite and at a luncheon for 900 people at the Riverside Convention Center. In several states her birthday is a legal state holiday, including Wisconsin and Florida. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney has introduced the Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act to make the 3rd Monday in February a federal holiday, the first to honor a woman. For her 80th birthday in 1900, Elizabeth wrote a poem with this verse describing their speaking tours: “We met and loved, ne’er to part,/Hand clasped in hand, heart bound to heart./We’ve traveled West, years together,/Day and night, in stormy weather:/ Climbing the rugged Suffrage hill,/ Bravely facing every ill: Resting, speaking, everywhere:/ Oft-times in the open air;/From sleighs, ox-carts, and coaches,/Besieged with bugs and roaches:/All for the emancipation/Of the women of our Nation.”

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Talking about Research and Writing

Had a fun time doing my PowerPoint presentation, “The Five Ws and One H of Writing: How About You?” to three classes of lively, engaged 5th graders, who are starting research projects on natural disasters, at the Clara E. Coleman School in Glen Rock, New Jersey. (The librarian had a sign welcoming “Penny Colman to the Clara E. Coleman School.” I wonder if Clara had her last name spelled without the “e” as often as mine is spelled with an “e”??)

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Award for Elizabeth and Susan

I’m thrilled with the news that the Amelia Bloomer Project selected Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World as one of the titles to be honored this year on the Amelia Bloomer List. Each year the Amelia Bloomer List selects the best books with significant feminist content that will appeal to young readers from birth to 18 years old, published in the previous 18 months.

The Amelia Bloomer Project is part of the American Library Association, Social Responsibilities Round Table’s (SRRT) Feminist Task Force (FTF). You can find out more about the Amelia Bloomer Project at http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/ and view the complete list of recommended titles at http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2012-bloomer-list/

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