Empowering Unsung Women in History
A marriage of convenience leads to a life of passion and purpose. A shared vision transforms the American landscape forever.New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother’s deathbed plea to "not let Mary suffer”. But she craves more… Continue reading Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted
Twelve year old Carissa Beaumont arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1880 with her mother and three women. Her mother and two of the others are prostitutes, and Miss Lucille, the madam, rules them with an iron hand. Carissa's mother, ill and addicted to drugs, is all she has. Carissa must find a way out of… Continue reading Blood and Silver by Vali Benson
For 22 years, when I taught fifth or sixth grade, I began the year teaching Personal Narrative. Students who are reluctant writers always did well in this unit because Everyone Has a Story. They learned how to take a memory with impact and turn it into a story that can impact a reader. To begin,… Continue reading Emotion in Narrative
“I WASN'T looking for Marilyn Monroe when I bumped into her, even though I knew she was in town filming River of No Return…” I love first lines of books, and this is a good one. Set in Utah in the 1950's, In a Town Called Paradox follows three people who are thrown together in this… Continue reading In a Town Called Paradox by Miriam Murcutt and Richard Starks
We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip by Anne Glass is a fresh look at another small piece of the suffrage movement. In 1915, three women accepted the task of driving a petition to Washington, D.C. demanding the vote for women. Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg own the vehicle, and Ingeborg handles all the mechanical issues.… Continue reading We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip
