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My Orlando Talk, Lilly Pulitzer & Cute Cookies
I was excited to see that the Orange County Regional Historical Center list my talk in March for Women’s History Month. This is the description: Evening Lecture with Dr. Kimberly Voss: Fashion, Food and Feminism: Florida’s Women’s Page Editors in the 1960sThursday, March 6, 2014 Throughout the 1960s, the Florida women’s page editors were setting the standard across the country. They were regularly giving lectures to other women’s page editors and dominated the Penney-Missouri Awards- the top journalism prize for the sections. These editors were developing a community together. They socialized, encouraged and pushed the definition of women’s news. This time period was described by Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald and…
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Happy New Year!
We found this on the beach on Sanibel Island. Happy New Year!
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Celebrating Anniversary & Birthday on Sanibel Island
Lance (my frequent co-author about women’s page journalists) & I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary & my birthday on Sanibel Island. We enjoyed lunch at Doc Ford’s and I got to shop at Eileen Fisher. We learned a lot about shells at the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum – I highly recommend it. There was some interesting history such as the use of shells for currency and shell crafts for Valentine’s Day. The range of colors was amazing. There was even an activity room for children which Curtis loved. I bought a poster of shells found on the Island that now hangs in my writing corner and reminds me that we need…
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Recipes From the Tower Kitchen
For Christmas, I received this copy of Recipes From the Tower Kitchen by Carol Haddix. It was produced by the Food Section & Test Kitchen of the Detroit Free Press. According to the introduction (written, I am guessing, in the 1970s), “the Tower Kitchen has been remodeled in contemporary orange and black – designed for efficient testing of each new food idea that appears in the Free Press Food Guide.” Most newspaper food section published recipe booklets and pamphlets, as well as their own cookbooks. Carol, who went on to be the food editor of the Chicago Tribune, was very kind of answer my questions for my book, The Food…
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Merry Christmas!
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Mad Men Book: Coming Soon
I am happy to announce that the book Mad Men & Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance and Otherness will be out soon. I am a co-author of the book along with Erika Engstrom, Tracy Lucht & Jane Marcellus. Included in my chapters is information about women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry – both as a mother and a woman in the workforce in the 1950s and 1960s.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
