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Women and Adversity: Dena and Rebecca Lindgre...
April 12, 2018Somehow this book got into my Kindle, and I couldn’t ignore it. Tutu, plié and barre are about the only ballet terms I knew until I read Outside the Limelight, but this novel’s message includes more than a ballet instructional. It’s the story of two sisters, both ballerinas, and their jealousies, hopes, dreams, romantic entanglements, heartbreaking misfortunes and relationship to each other and others in their lives. The characters are complicated and live complicated lives. ...
MARCH: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Women and Adv...
March 22, 2018Crossword puzzle enthusiasts will recognize the name Zora Neale Hurston, although they may not know what her accomplishments are or why she’s to be remembered. She is another example of a wo ...
MARCH: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Women and Adve...
March 8, 2018Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, that complex system of safe houses to the north. Believing she was to be sold, she escaped slavery in 1849 and cam ...