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Jeanne Voltz and BBQ
Lance is BBQing his way through the Jeanne Voltz book: Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts and Other Great Feeds. Food great James Beard wrote of it: “Jeanne Voltz has written a definitive book on barbecuing.” Jeanne started her food journalism career in the 1950s women’s section of the Miami Herald, working for Dorothy Jurney. I am working on a biography chapter of Jeanne and her work at the Los Angeles Times for a book about culinary history.
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Helen Muir letter
I am working on collecting information on Miami News women’s page journalist (and Miami library legend) Helen Muir. She was a friend of many in the Miami women’s page community – especially Dorothy Jurney and Marie Anderson. This 1972 letter, concerning the growing hippy problem in Miami, can be found in Helen’s papers at the University of Miami. We hope to go through Helen’s paper sometime this month.
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Our baby & baby books
With a baby on the way, I have been reading women’s page and then women’s magazine writer Joan Younger’s The Stork and You. She wrote the book after she had her daughter Rosalind. The book is much like the popular book What to Expect When You Are Expecting – only written decades earlier. JYD was well ahead of her time. I went through the papers of JYD at the University of Wyoming and am writing am writing an article about her.
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Helen Thomas & Eleni Epstein
I just found this great 1961 image of journalist Helen Thomas with President JFK. Helen was good friends with women’s page journalist Eleni Epstein. In 1955, Eleni told Thomas that she had paid enough dues on the dawn patrol and deserved a better position. This story can be found in Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House (New York: Scribner, 2000) I just received revision recommendations for an R & R on my article about Eleni. I went through her papers at two archives to write the article.
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Bobbi McCallum Memorial
A Seattle preservation group is planning to save the globe that is found on top of the former Seattle P-I building. Here is a story about it. I am trying to find out if anything is being done to save the memorial for Bobbi McCallum that is found in front of the building. An image of the fountain memorial is shown above. We went to see it when we were in Seattle last fall. I emailed the reporter of the story about the globe to see if anything is being done about the McCallum memorial, and she responded with the helpful: “Not that I know of.” Not very helpful. My…
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Bobbi McCallum update
I got good news about my article on Seattle women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum. The article is scheduled to run in a state history publication this fall. This picture of Bobbi was taken at a Penney-Missouri Award workshop. This letter is from Janet Grimley, an editor at the Seattle P-I before the newspaper folded. She was a great help in tracking down information about Bobbi.
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