Latah County Historical Society - Parlor Talk, "Women of Idaho"
Name:
Latah County Historical Society - Parlor Talk, "Women of Idaho"
Date:
May 5, 2015
Time:
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Event Description:
“History is both more honest and more fun when it includes not just his story, but her story too.” according to award-winning biographer Mike Bullard who will be speaking at Moscow’s McConnell Mansion, Tuesday, May 5 at 5:30 on recovering and preserving women’s contributions to Idaho history.
Bullard will demonstrate a new open source database that will invite people from all over the state to enter stories of women who done great things in many different fields. The database that has been developed by Anne Gaines, Scholarly Resource Librarian at U of I, can be visited at idahowomen.org and is continually growing. The public is invited to contribute by submitting names and information about women who have shaped Idaho’s history.
To be included in the database, women need to have accomplished something positive outside their own family and friends. They may be connected to Idaho by birth, residence or accomplishment. They can be “infamous,” or unpopular, as long as they are remembered for something constructive. “Who is your role model for Idaho women,” Bullard asks, adding “These are the people whose stories we want to be preserved and available to Idaho young people.
Already included are: Mary Brooks, who spent eight years as director of the U.S. Mint; Emma Yearian, Idaho’s Sheep Queen who was elected to state legislature 1930; Jennie Hughes Smith, the first African American graduate of UI; Dorice Taylor, the woman behind the railroad’s development of Sun Valley; Pulitzer-prize winner Marilynne Robinson; and Gracie Bowers Pfost, who served in the U.S. Congress from 1953-63.
Bullard got the idea for the database while working on his book Lioness of Idaho: Louise Shadduck and the Power of Polite , the true story of an Idaho farm girl with a high school education who rose to be one of the state’s most politically powerful citizens ever, male or female, and did it all with integrity and civility, one friend at a time. Lioness of Idaho was awarded first place for biography from Idaho Media Network and second place from National Federation of Press Women.
Bullard will demonstrate a new open source database that will invite people from all over the state to enter stories of women who done great things in many different fields. The database that has been developed by Anne Gaines, Scholarly Resource Librarian at U of I, can be visited at idahowomen.org and is continually growing. The public is invited to contribute by submitting names and information about women who have shaped Idaho’s history.
To be included in the database, women need to have accomplished something positive outside their own family and friends. They may be connected to Idaho by birth, residence or accomplishment. They can be “infamous,” or unpopular, as long as they are remembered for something constructive. “Who is your role model for Idaho women,” Bullard asks, adding “These are the people whose stories we want to be preserved and available to Idaho young people.
Already included are: Mary Brooks, who spent eight years as director of the U.S. Mint; Emma Yearian, Idaho’s Sheep Queen who was elected to state legislature 1930; Jennie Hughes Smith, the first African American graduate of UI; Dorice Taylor, the woman behind the railroad’s development of Sun Valley; Pulitzer-prize winner Marilynne Robinson; and Gracie Bowers Pfost, who served in the U.S. Congress from 1953-63.
Bullard got the idea for the database while working on his book Lioness of Idaho: Louise Shadduck and the Power of Polite , the true story of an Idaho farm girl with a high school education who rose to be one of the state’s most politically powerful citizens ever, male or female, and did it all with integrity and civility, one friend at a time. Lioness of Idaho was awarded first place for biography from Idaho Media Network and second place from National Federation of Press Women.
