by michelle | Jun 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month I took a trip to visit the East Coast, including Boston and Quincy, towns in Massachusetts. John and Abigail Adams made their home in Braintree, which later renamed Quincy after Abigail’s grandfather. I am a big fan of this Founding pair,...
by michelle | Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
It has finally happened! My first book is available at the local library (Round Lake Area Public Library). Please put in a request for your library to get a copy. Thanks to my friend Jennifer for sending the picture.
by michelle | Mar 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
This woman did more than just refuse to give up her seat on a bus; she sparked a movement for change in the United States. Born in Alabama in 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was the firstborn of two children in her family. Recalling her childhood on her grandparents’...
by michelle | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
By allowing her private struggles to become public, this woman saved countless lives and changed the way society dealt with taboo issues. Born in Chicago in 1918, Elizabeth Anne “Betty” Bloomer Ford spent her childhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied...
by michelle | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
A leader in the women’s suffrage movement and the first Hispanic woman to run for Congress, she also served as the first female superintendent of schools in her city. Born in 1881 into a wealthy family on a hacienda in what is now New Mexico, Adelina “Nina”...
