Entertainer and businesswoman Dolly Parton leaves behind an enduring legacy that has touched our lives. We can’t imagine anyone who doesn’t know about her brilliant entertainment career!
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Mental institutions in the United States have a sordid history. Women were sometimes locked up against their will because their husbands had them committed.
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Celebration of the United States of America’s 250th birthday is certainly lending excitement to 2026! From enactments to remembrances of milestone events in our country’s history – there are many ways to celebrate.
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The co-founder of the Gap, Doris Fisher, had escaped our attention until we read of her recent death. She was described as a “path-breaking entrepreneur” whose “brilliance, quiet determination, and heart shaped everything from Gap Inc.’s indelible influence on fashion and retail to philanthropy and the San Francisco art scence.
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Many women have contributed to the success of the automotive industry over the years including Mary Anderson, who invested the windshield wiper and has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; Alma Green, who edited The Green Book – the travel guide that provided information during the Jim Crow area of places that accommodated Black Americans: and Mary Barra, the first woman CEO in the industry.
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