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Title details for Women’s History in the Hudson Valley 2016: Ten Stories from Columbia and Dutchess Counties by Didi Barrett - Available

Women’s History in the Hudson Valley 2016: Ten Stories from Columbia and Dutchess Counties

by Didi Barrett
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Many extraordinary women have lived or traveled through the historic Hudson Valley region, their marks forever inscribed on our nation. In the 18th century, Margaret Livingston bravely carried her family through the Revolutionary War, persevering even when British troops burned her house to the ground. She went on to host President George Washington and First Lady Martha Washington after rebuilding her home. One of the 20th century’s major literary figures, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, lived in Austerlitz the last 25 years of her life, and Steepletop, her home and gardens, has become a much-loved destination. Civil rights activist Cecelia Magill fought to end employment discrimination in Poughkeepsie, and Maria Salmon Mitchell blazed trails in the sciences, becoming the first woman astronomer in America and the very first faculty member Vassar College hired.

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