In observation of Women’s History Month, we conclude our series
about some of the women who’ve worked
in journalism in Vermont. This morning we hear from Rickey Gard
Diamond, who recalls how the magazine, Vermont Woman, got its start.
Malvine Cole was a well known Vermont writer and activist, based in
Jamaica and Stratton. At the Community College of Vermont, Cyndy Bittinger often teaches about many of the same issues Malvine
addressed
As she prepares to retire from the Burlington Free Press after 30 years,
journalist Candace Page reflects on what she owes her mother and fellow
journalist, Ruth Page.
In observation of Women’s History Month, Christine Smith has the
story of writer and lecturer Annette Chase Dimock – who wrote a popular
column about rural Vermont agricultural life in the early to mid-1900’s
under the pen name "Aunt Serena."
Kathryn
Stearns, whose newspaper career began in Washington, finds a kindred
spirit in Frances Parkinson Keyes, who left her home in the Upper Valley
to write about the social scene in the nation’s capital at a pivotal
time for women’s rights.