Beach conservation and women’s pages

We spent Thanksgiving at the beach. (Curtis’s first trip to the ocean!)

Women’s page journalists were often advocates for beach conservation before it was popular. This was especially true if local women’s clubs took up the cause.

Below is some video of Miami Herald editorial page writer Juanita Greene speaking about her conservation efforts. (She worked with women’s page editor Maria Anderson in the 1960s.)

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