Speaker telling about extraordinary women
“Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” will be the title of a program to be given by Lyn Messersmith of Alliance at 6 p.m. Monday, March 16 in the Chicoine Atrium of the Sandoz Center at Chadron State College. The presentation will be open to the public without charge.
Messersmith is a third-generation Cherry County rancher and a freelance writer who has given numerous programs throughout the region. She will use stories, songs and poems to tell about women “who left footprints on history by stepping out of place,” in her words.
Some of those she discusses include “Baby Doe” Tabor, sometimes called “the silver queen;” Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only female to be awarded the nation’s Medal of Honor; Nebraska’s Tad Lucas, a lady bronc rider who was inducted into all three Cowboy Halls of Fame; and Susan LaFlesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to become a physician.
The program Monday evening will be sponsored by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the Nekota Reading Council and CSC. Messersmith also will speak on “Legends and Leaders of the West” to students in the Chadron Public Schools on Monday afternoon and the Gordon-Rushville Schools on Tuesday.
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