by Michele Genthon | May 26, 2020 | Aviation and Space, FIRST WOMEN
NASA is sending another telescope like the Hubble into space, and it has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. For the first time in NASA’s 61-year history, a billion dollar program has been named for a woman. “[Naming the telescope after Roman]...
by Michele Genthon | May 19, 2020 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. [Victoria Woodhull] In 1870, the New York Herald published a letter to the editor written by Victoria Claflin Woodhull, announcing her...
by Michele Genthon | May 12, 2020 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
May Sinchi Breen was called “The Ukulele Lady,” and even “The Goddess of Uke,” but her love of the instrument was not instant. When she was 30 years old Breen received a ukulele as a Christmas present, but she took it back to the department store to exchange it for a...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 17, 2020 | Aviation and Space, FIRST WOMEN
Bessie Coleman was one of the early pioneers of flight. Called “Brave Bessie” and “Queen Bessie,” she reveled in performing daring stunts for startled crowds. She dazzled audiences in spite of two drawbacks: Bessie Coleman was a woman, and she was African American....
by Michele Genthon | Apr 17, 2020 | MUSINGS, Reading
At the end of last year, I read The Humans by Matt Haig, and it still haunts me. Not in an ominous way, but more like the dictionary definition of haunt, “to remain with.” This novel won’t let me go, won’t let me ignore it. The book’s message is even more...
