Monthly Archives: May 2023

Pioneer Nurse Jean Todd

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I wrote this story about Jean Todd, a very interesting immigrant nurse from Scotland, for one of my classes while working on my master’s degree. After graduation, the story was published in the South Dakota Journal. Here’s a link (added … Continue reading

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Mrs. Sweep’s Elegant Tea

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In September, 2022, I was privileged to be one of several who hosted a vintage tea party in in the Sweep/Van Dyke Hotel in Plankinton, South Dakota. We set the event in the 1910-1912 time frame and chose tea and … Continue reading

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Woman Suffrage Presentations

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In 2020, the hundred year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, I presented several talks about the fight for woman suffrage in both South Dakota and Wisconsin. These are parallel talks, with most of the national information repeated to give context … Continue reading

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