Woman have played a major but underrecognized role in our Nation’s history since its inception.
*London-born Esther DeBerdt Reed married a man who became George Washington’s right-hand man and switched her Tory allegiance to become a radial patriot; the organization she founded to provide some relief to the soldiers fighting for her freedom didn’t quite go the way that she had planned.
*Elizabeth Duane Gillespie came from a politically active family; she was the chief fundraiser and organizer for the Sanitary Fair of 1864, which put her in the position to lead the way for the Centennial Exposition of 1876.
*Anna Justina Magee was the last of seven siblings who lived together their entire lives. Her legacy for the family was a hospital designed for people who were convalescing from injury – The Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.
These three women are featured in this month’s episode of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #060 for March 2024 – Three More Women Who Changed Philadelphia.
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ABC#063: Curtain Up! Four Early Philadelphia Playwrights
BBB#032: Philadelphia's Jazz Lodestar - Dennis Sandole
ABC#062: Three More Philadelphia Magazines - Graham's, Peterson's, and Lippincott's
BBB#031: Gladys Hall & Russell Ball - Glamourizing Early Hollywood
ABC#061: Play Ball!, Part 3 - Four More Baseball Pioneers at Laurel Hill
BBB#030: Grayce Nottage Nicholas - Black Is Beautiful
BBB#029: MOVE and Laurel Hill
ABC#059: Three More Black Pioneers
BBB#028: The Philadelphia Orchestra & Laurel Hill West
ABC#058: Laurel Hill & Big Pharma
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BBB#027: An Old Soul Guitarist - Jack Rose
ABC#057: Murder Most Foul, Part 1
BBB#026: The Surgeon Is a General - I.S. Ravdin
ABC#056: Philadelphia and Oil
BBB#025: Free Science for All - William Wagner
ABC#055: The Supremes - Justices at Laurel Hill
BBB#024: The Female Bobby Jones - Glenna Collett Vare
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