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93Appalachia: Dispelling the myth
"...So many lies have been written about us, the mountain people, that folks from other states have formed an image of a gun-totin', tabaccer -spittin , whiskey drinkin', barefooted, foolish hillbilly who never existed except in the minds of people...
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80The emergence of women as serious artists
For years, "artist" wasn't a respectable profession for anybody , male or female, until the Italian Renaissance. Even then, most parents would not have chosen an artistic endeavor as a profession for their children. Artists have always been an...
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65Who are these Neanderthals?
I’ve been so busy in my bed and breakfast and finishing up a final edit of my memoir, I haven’t read the Sunday paper in weeks…no, make that months. So I deliberately sat down this Easter morning, on a beautiful sunny day in April to relax...
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75I worked around the corner from the Playboy Club in Chicago
I lived most of my life in Chicago. I loved it because there was so much to do, especially for someone with widely varying interests like myself. Besides being a wife and mother, I was a teacher, a sometimes singer, and student at Northwestern,...
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60Hoax or scientific experiment gone wrong?
I find the question of whether or not parents, who include their children in their schemes to either make money illegally or get publicity illegally, disturbing and compelling. In the video here,...
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68Women and happiness: Part two - The way it was and is now
Women and happiness: Part two - Whine, womyn, and thongs (a title used by Christine Rosin, 1990) *To see the first article in this series, click here: "Women and happiness : Part One -The way it was. ...
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74Women and happiness: Part one: A series of articles on the way it was and is now
Women and happiness. Part one: The way it was In the 1960s, I was teaching school in Chicago. It was just about the time that the "women's feminist movement was getting started. I had graduated from college with a teaching degree and was eager to...
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86They're doing it again: Phasing out the music programs in the schools
In an article in the Daily Kenoshan Newspaper this morning, the headline read: The Day Music Died. The ensuing article read: " According to music teachers at the Kenosha Unified School District, School Board President Eric Olsen has declared a...
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