She is worldwide renown as one of the most beloved First Lady of the 20th Century, but she was so much more. An activist, a reformer, a diplomat , an author; during her 78 years of life she forever changed the image of First Lady through her active participation in American politics and dedication improving the lives of those less fortunate, always leading by example....
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She was the first American born citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. An example of courage, tolerance and upwards mobility for women in the 1800, whose model is still very relevant in today’s society. Her name was Elizabeth Ann Seton. Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley on August 28th, 1774 in New York City by a wealthy Episcopalian merchant family. Her...
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I’m sure that not too many people were familiar with her name, before March 2020, when the Netflix mini-series “Self Made” was aired and the amazing Octavia Spencer interpreted her life on screen. We were at the very beginning of the Covid -19 pandemic and in lock down so we suddenly had much more time to spend on our couch binging tv series, and...
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This month marks a year that the whole world was hit by the horrible pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. We all changed, probably forever, many of our habits and introduced many others. We cannot, for example, leave home without remembering to get our face covering mas! It has become our faithful companion during the past 12 months and a specific kind is nowadays very...
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She became a social media icon in her 80’s when she was nicknamed “Notorious RBG” a name that instantly made her famous also to people who were not into politics and all of a sudden we found her face and quotes on T-shirts, cups, pins ,bumper stickers and so on…Did she like it? Yes she did! Because she understood the deeper and more important...
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“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair” she famously used to say. Words that immediately describe a woman with spirit and determination, who fought for education opportunities, food programs for school children, and charged against social injustices throughout her political career and her years spent as a teacher. This is Shirley Chisholm....
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If you search Hetty Green on the internet, Wikipedia subtitles her photograph with the words ” American Businesswoman”. Nothing exceptional for todays standards, right? Well, Henrietta Howland Robinson Green ( this is her full name) was actually born in 1834 and she lived her adult life in a World where women were considered second class citizens, property of the men in...
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How much do New Yorkers and even tourists love Washington Square Park and the Village! There is something special about this park. If you sit on a bench and observe , you can see so many “Worlds” passing in front of you, each one with their unique reality and all of them with one thing in common…New York. Try for a moment to imagine New York without...
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