Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt
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3/8 notable women
Gladys Noon Spellman (March 1, 1918 – June 19, 1988) was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1975, to February 24, 1981. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
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@DCAKen 209371 wrote:
3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)
The Sheridan-Kalorama Call Box Restoration Project has restored many of the old police and fire call boxes in the neighborhood This call box piece, entitled “Women of Influence” portrays some of the residents of the neighborhood. The main figure is Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (Soong Mei-ling), the First Lady of Taiwan. She lobbied for support of the Nationalists’ efforts and, with her husband, was Time Magazine’s “Man and Wife of the Year” in 1937.
Also portrayed on this box are Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady, civil rights leader, and United Nations delegate), Lou Henry Hoover (president of the Red Cross), and Edith Galt Wilson (First Lady and, after her husband’s stroke, controller of the White House).
What’s particularly ironic about this location of this call box is that it is directly in front of the house rented by the Kushners during the last administration. This call box was unfortunately kept from full public view behind a fence during those four years.
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What a cool project – I’d never heard of it. Thanks for pointing me that direction!
3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)
From the Pioneer Women’s web site: The Madonna of the Trail statue (which debits a Pioneer everywoman, not a specific notable woman), is “one of the few statues honoring women in the state of Maryland.” And Bethesda doesn’t tend to have public art depicting specific people–much less women–at all. It has:- Abstract art (e.g., the “Untitled Column” at Bethesda Place Plaza).
- Art depicting concepts (e.g., the Peace Mural in Cabin John Village).
- Art depicting nonspecific humans (e.g., the three faces in the Bethesda parking garage).
As AlanA said, “I feel like the achievement of this woman who lived about 2000 years ago kind of doesn’t need to be stated,” so I passed up the statue of her in the local Catholic church.
So I give you Connie Morella. From her Wikipedia entry:
She represented Maryland’s 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She served as Permanent Representative from the U.S. to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 2003 to 2007. She is on American University’s faculty as an Ambassador in Residence for the Women & Politics Institute. She was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) by President Barack Obama in 2010.
And on a personal note, she was the last Republican I ever voted for. For those who may not remember, there was a time when the South was solidly Democratic–but the Democratic party in the South was dedicated to maintaining segregation. And Maryland (which is, after all, below the Mason-Dixon line, much as we may like to forget that) was no exception. The winner of the Maryland Democratic Presidential primary in 1972 was George Wallace (“segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”).
The Republicans, on the other hand, had some remarkably liberal candidates, including former Senator Charles (“Mac”) Mathias. And Connie Morella was one of them. Again from her Wikipedia entry:
Morella opposes her party’s positions on abortion, gun control, gay rights, and the environmental movement, voted for government funding of contraceptives and needle exchange programs for drug addicts, and favored the legalization of medical marijuana. She received some support from organized labor and opposed many tax cuts… She voted against declaring English the official language of the United States and, in 1996, against a bill overwhelmingly approved by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton to combat illegal immigration.
In 1996, Morella was one of only five Republicans to vote against the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act. In 1998, she was one of only three Republicans to vote against renaming the Washington National Airport the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Morella was the only Republican in the entire Congress to have voted against approving the use of military force in Iraq in 1991 and again in 2002. She was active in human rights, women’s health, and domestic violence issues in Congress, and served on the Science and Government Reform Committees.
She was finally defeated when a) her district was gerrymandered Democratic even more thoroughly than it had been before, and b) politics became so polarized that it was perceived that when a vote was close, she’d be forced into voting with other Republicans.
@drevil 209337 wrote:
3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)
Audrey Moore was an environmentalist who became chairwoman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and successfully fought for the preservation of several thousand acres of open land in rapidly growing Northern Virginia. The Fairfax County Parks Rec Center at Wakefield Park is named after this local advocate.
The Washington Post Obituary is linked below
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/audrey-moore-fairfax-county-supervisor-and-environmentalist-dies-at-89/2018/12/19/5301a4ca-02e5-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.htmlMy first crack at the scavenger hunt for international women’s day was Virginia Road [No picture here because rules]. There are many Virginias to choose from but I highlighted Virginia Hall. She was a covert operative during World War II and her efforts resulted in both intelligence and operational gains for the allies. You can learn more about Virginia Hall in the excellent book A Woman of No Importance.
3/8 – Notable Woman
Alethia Tanner was a former slave who purchased her freedom and that of many relatives. She helped sponsor some of the first schools for black children in the District of Columbia and provided financial support for many hundreds of young people to gain access to education. She is the namesake of the new park along the Metropolitan Branch Trail in NoMa.
3/8/21 – notable woman (with her achievement)
Lynn Kristianson
Lynn was a notable DC area cyclist. I went back & forth a bit about whether she would fit the parameters of today’s challenge… but finally decided that the kinds of people who are likely to appreciate a notable CYCLIST are gonna be here…. in my beloved freezing saddles community. Somehow my favorite people always seem to be the extreme ones, who don’t let what’s accepted as normal limit them…..[emoji3531][emoji16]
Lynn rode with Babes on Bikes & the DC randonneurs, among other groups. She did rides so long she’d hafta start in the dark and finish in the dark. Then the next day she’d come on a 35 mile Babes on Bikes ride at 12-14 mph – her “recovery ride” -which was the only time I could keep up with her. [emoji38]
It was 30 miles from the end of one of those 200+ mile rides that she was hit by a car & hurt so badly she hadda be airlifted to the trauma unit in Baltimore…. She ended up getting cancer that metastasized to all the places where she’d been the most seriously injured (which is how cancer behaves. That’s why chemo so often makes people lose their hair…. Hair is one of the faster growing things on our bodies.) I blame the “accident” for her loss. (It was a hit & run.)
She was a beloved mentor to many cyclists. She worked as a reference librarian at the Arlington Central library and was an avid gardener. This engraved stone is at her memorial pollinator garden at Central Library.
Here are a couple of links (which aren’t behaving like links for some reason, but copy-paste will work.)
The first is a writeup about her (which was probably written by Tara Claes, whose husband Steve was my first FS team captain.)
https://babesonbikes.org/lynn-kristianson/These are to a couple of slide shows Joan Britt put together. (Joan’s been playing Freezing Saddles for 6 yrs, like me.) Joan took pains on these – they’re really worth looking at.
This is the 22 minute slide show:
https://youtu.be/_FDcvs2qfssHere’s the 6 minute version,
https://youtu.be/IezMTZiNTLkwhich is set to Lynn’s favorite song (Sail Away Ladies.) Music is by Bruce Molsky, her favorite musician; photos and videos were from many of her friends and family.
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3/8 Famous Women
In Falls Church, a sidewalk sign for Betsy Read who taught reading to enslaved Black people.
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3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)
Joan of Arc
Helped win a long, long war
Canonized in 1920
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3/8/21–International Women’s Day (pic + paragraph)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
2nd female Supreme Court Justice and also served as counsel to the ACLU in the 1970s. Landmark votes, dissents and representation that, among other things, allows women to gets mortgages & credit without male co-signers, helped legalize gay marriage, protects a woman’s right to choose, and guarantees the right of a woman to be admitted to any state school.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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