Margaret Pickoff
Cultivating the Trained Hand and Mind: The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women
Founded in 1911, the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women (PSHW) was one of the first schools of its kind in the nation. Its...
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Alicia Shulman
- Jan 31, 2022
- 5 min
Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist and Founder of the Freedom Farm Cooperative
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) was born into a sharecropping family in Mississippi and become a leader in civil rights. She established a...
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Julicia James
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
Carrie Steele Logan
Although she was born into slavery in Georgia in 1829, Carrie Steele was one of the first black landowners in Atlanta and left behind a...
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Julie Bare
- Jun 7, 2019
- 7 min
Quill Teal-Sullivan: Preserving Gardens as Living Artifacts of Human Endeavors
After reading A Woman’s Hardy Garden by Helena Rutherfurd Ely for the WinH inaugural book club meeting, we thought it was more than...
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