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”...
by michelle | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the face of grave danger and heartbreaking personal loss, this woman chose to walk in faith and, in doing so, became one of the most influential Christian women of the 20th century. Born to American missionaries living in Belgium in 1926, Elisabeth grew up in the...
by michelle | Mar 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the only women of her generation to be recognized as a prima ballerina, this woman danced her way to international acclaim. Born in 1925 on an Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma, Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief’s heritage was a blend of Osage and Scotch-Irish....
by michelle | Mar 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Imagine voluntarily spending time in an asylum or traveling around the world in a race. This woman didn’t have to imagine; she did both! Elizabeth Cochran was born in Pennsylvania in 1864. Her father died when she was 6, causing financial hardship for her mother, who...
by michelle | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The City of Chicago was established in 1837 but it took 142 years to elect its first female mayor. Jane Byrne grew up on the North Side of Chicago in the 1930s. She married William Byrne, a Marine, but was soon widowed when he died in a plane crash, leaving her to...
by michelle | Mar 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
The only woman in the United States to ever be given the Congressional Medal of Honor, she practiced medicine as well as advocating for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the fifth daughter born to Alvah and Vesta Whitcomb Walker...
by michelle | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
More than the wife of a Founding Father, she made a home for orphans and preserved important parts of the birth story of America after her husband’s famous death. In 1857, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was one of fourteen children born to Philip and Catherine...
