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Three pioneering women’s outdoor clubs that broke all the rules

By Janice Formichella| 2023-01-21T16:48:18-04:00 May 23rd, 2020|Categories: Edwardian Era, Victorian culture, Women's History|Tags: Amelia Earhart, cora smith eaton, dot robinson, motor maids, mountaineers, outdoor club|

Spring is here and summer is fast approaching. While 2020 might not include family reunions, street festivals, and out of state vacations, there is still the opportunity to get out safely and enjoy nature. My own COVID-19 schedule includes daily walks in my Denver neighborhood with various exercise routines at a local park. As I [...]

The 1920s, the Decade that Changes Everything!

By recollections| 2020-01-31T08:08:56-04:00 January 31st, 2020|Categories: 1920s fashion, Entertainment, Fashion, Roaring 20s|Tags: 1920's, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Claude McKay, Colleen Moore, Commercial Radio, Cotton Club, Countee Cullen, Decade of Change, dishwasher, Duke Ellington, electric iron, electricity, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, flapper, Gertrude Stein, Harlem Rennaisane, Jazz, Jazz age, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, Lost Generation, Model-T, Prohibition, Refrigerator, roaring 20s, Silent Movies, Speakeasy, Steamboat Willie, Stock Market crash, store credit, T.S. Eliot, Talking Movies, vacuum cleaner, Walt Disney, washing machine, Yankee Stadium, Zora Neale Hurston|

In part one of our look back on the 1920s we explored the top five events that kicked off the Decade of Change, the years we know as the Jazz Age and the Roaring ‘20s. Most are aware of how that decade exploded in 1929 with the crash of the stock market and the start [...]

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