Florida history
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
I enjoyed my teaching talk about history and time in Daytona Beach. It was beautiful.
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Roxcy Bolton & Naming Hurricanes
With the hurricane approaching, I am re-sharing my article about Roxcy Bolton who fought to name hurricanes for both women and men. Roxcy’s activism was often covered in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald.
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Florida Historical Society Presentation
It was great talking about the role of Florida women’s page journalists and the space race at the Florida Historical Society meeting.
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FHS 2019: Celebrating the Women of Cape Canaveral
I am looking forward to putting together a proposal about women who worked at Cape Canaveral in the 1960s. Roberta Applegate wrote a great series for the Miami Herald about the first NASA women who worked at Cape Canaveral.
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Florida Frontiers: Marie Anderson
I was pleased to hear my Florida Frontiers interview about Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson. It is at the end of the 30-minute program which aired on WMFE (90.7 in Orlando) on Sunday afternoon and will re-air on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
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Researching Miami Herald Journalist Kay Murphy
I have been researching Miami women’s page journalist Kay Murphy. I found a scholarship is given in her name – as recently as 2017. Here is information about it:“Kay Murphy Price Scholarship: Kay Murphy Price was a Scripps alum who had a 33-year career as a feature writer with the Columbus Dispatch and Miami Herald. She was also an artist, winning awards for her poetry, and gourmet cooking, and dabbling with a paint brush. She established this scholarship for students with an interest in newspaper or magazine journalism.” Here is a link to one of her many stories about furnishings. Here is information about her from her Ohio alumni magazine:1930…