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Widowed at twenty-two, Laura had one daughter, Peggy, to whom she devoted her life. When Peggy was sixteen, she confided to her mother that she was pregnant and that the lover who had promised to marry her had deserted her. “Well-meaning friends” advised an abortion and told Smith, “There is a way. Hide this thing from sight, send her on a journey.
... See moreBarbara Goldsmith • Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
In 1964, eight years before I was born, my family moved from Titusville to Ensley. Ours was the third Black family on the block. And the last White man on our block, which changed from White to Black across a few years, diligently kept up a sign that read “Zoned for whites.” Each morning on the way to school, the neighborhood boys kicked it down.
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Everything around us, between ocean-bed and sky, was under the protection of this seventy-year-old woman. I looked at her in the boat with me and marvelled at the ridiculousness of it. She was powerless against the scale of the natural forces at work on the islands, and against the issues affecting the oceans, yet fierce in her determination to
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Spring Pond Bog Preserve in New York’s Adirondacks
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Directly next door to the Center for River Studies sits the headquarters of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. CPRA was founded in 2005, a few months after Hurricane Katrina hit, inundating New Orleans and leaving more than eighteen hundred people dead. The authority’s official mission is to implement “projects relative to
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