This week we are bringing out the maps and pins to learning about the Indiana Women’s History Trail thanks to Katie’s 1 cool women’s history thing. Gal pals, Leah, Bonnie, Josh, and Katie also talk about radium, and other things we took a while to learn were toxic, while we sip Diet Coke – it will all make sense in a when you hit play on this week’s Episode #20 of Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast. Now with Olestra!
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Show Notes & Extras:
- This month’s Gal Pals are Leah Leach, Bonnie Fillenwarth, Joshua Leach, and Katie Harris. Catch up on Episode 18, Episode 19
- Get-to-know-you question: What’s one place, women’s history related, that you would like to visit before you die?
- Places mentioned: Women’s Museum of California, Seneca Falls, Hull House, Radium Girl Statue
- What foods or treatments that we use today would humans in the future find toxic and ridiculous?
- Katie’s 1 Cool Thing is about Indiana Women’s History Trail
- Indy Star article referenced and mentioned.
- Catharine Merrill, the second female faculty member in the nation
- Zerelda G. Wallace, the wife of Indiana Governor and women’s voting rights advocate
- Lillian Thomas Fox, an African-American journalist that also open Oak Hill Camp
- Mary Cable, an African-American educator who started the Indianapolis chapter of the NAACP
- Luella Smith McWhirter, Suffragette who was on the board of the Peoples Bank & Trust Co
- Lovina McCarthy Streight, who went to the Civil War with her husband and young son. She was called the “Mother of the 51st.”
- Sarah Bolton, a poet of “Paddle Your Own Canoe” and “Indiana”
- Many of these ladies are buried at Crown Hill Cemetary
- Shout out to the Clara Barton Drunk History segment. Abracadabra! See a clip here
- Next week is Leah’s 1 Cool Women’s History Thing!
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