Kalon Women Magazine
Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen write a monthly column for Kalon Women magazine. It is now available via a Kindle subscription at click here.
Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen write a monthly column for Kalon Women magazine. It is now available via a Kindle subscription at click here.
Each year on November 11, we celebrate Veteran’s Day to honor the men – and women – who served our country during wartime. In this column, we focus on women veterans from the Revolutionary War forward.
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With the recent passing of Maya Angelou, we were prompted to think about the amazing legacy she left. In this column, we focus on five truly diverse women who all share the appellation: trailblazers.
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Did you know that a woman wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic? Or that the Hymn Blessed Assurance was written by a women? What about the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty which was written by a woman?
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In 1825 (with a newborn), upon her husband’s death, Rebecca Webb Lukens took over the management of the almost bankrupt Brandywine Iron Works in what is now Coatesville, Pennsylvania. This was the first American company to make a boiler plate and hull plates for steam-powered ships and locomotives; it thereby played a prominent role in the industrial and transportation revolutions of the 19th century.
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AH – fashion choices – what a quandary! Short skirts, knee -length skirts, spanx, camisoles, scarfs, sleeveless, with sleeves, jackets, no jacket, flats, pumps, 4-inch heels and more! Women in the 21st century have the luxury of dealing with all of these fashion decisions. for many years, fashion was much more proscribed and, for middle -class and upper-class women, included the dreaded corsets! For this issue we discuss some the the significant milestones and contributors to the evolution of women’s clothing and clothing design from the middle 1800s through the end of the 20th century.
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