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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
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 … Continue reading
Landmarks to Dr. Mary E. Walker and Harriet Tubman
During my recent booktalk/signing at Seneca Falls, New York, I took a side trip to Oswego to visit the grave of Dr. Mary E. Walker, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for her Civil War service. I also … Continue reading
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Tagged booktalk, Congressional Medal of Honor, graves, Harriet Tubman, headstones, Landmarks, Mary E. Walker, Photographs
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Honoring Elizabeth Cady Stanton
For more than twenty years, I’ve taken road trips in search of landmarks to women. On Sunday I visited a display to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the lobby of the Stanton, an apartment building on 94th Street in New York … Continue reading
Mother’s Day
During one of my many road trips in search of landmarks to women, I went to Grafton, WV, site of the first Mother’s Day service and photographed this marker and statue. For a photograph taken in 1888 of Elizabeth Cady … Continue reading
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Susan’s alligator handbag
Would you believe that Susan B. Anthony made the ThursdayStyles section of The New York Times? She’s there today in an article about the replica of her iconic alligator handbag that is being sold as a fundraiser for the Susan … Continue reading
Soul on Wax
Don’t know why, but I’m glad that I just received an email from Made Woman Magazine with the last-day-of-women’s-history-month-tribute, “Soul On Wax: History of Women in Music.” Here’s the link: http://www.madewomanmag.com/soulonwax
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Tagged Diana Ross, Etta James, Gloria Estefan, Janis Joplin, Lauryn Hill, Music
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Celebrating Women
Shortly after I returned from Omaha, Nebraska, where I gave my Celebrating Women presentation to the staff of the Midwest Region of the National Park Service, I received an email from Bonnie Nicholson who thanked me for a “fun and … Continue reading
Triangle Factory Fire
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Factory fire in which 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women died. It was a pivotal event for Frances Perkins, who witnessed the event. Appointed the chief investigator for the commission that investigated … Continue reading
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Tagged bells, immigrant women, Nonfiction, Sophie, Triangle Factory Fire, working women
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Buffalo Chicken Wings and Women’s History
I’m off to speak in Omaha tomorrow. Elizabeth Cady Stanton spent the winter of 1888 there at her daughter Maggie’s home. She delighted in a daily ride on a cable car & always took an outside seat. Passengers sitting inside … Continue reading