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Becoming An Outdoors Woman, an outdoor skills program, focuses on teaching women skills in fishing, archery, and plant identification at the W. Kerr Scott Reservoir in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
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15197
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North Carolina women have been foremost in various arenas since the State's earliest history. Lawrence provides a detailed list of outstanding females, such as authors (Cornelia Phillips Spencer), poets (Pattie Williams Gee), educators (Eliza Poole and Elizabeth McRae), public servants (Dr. Jane McKimmon), lawyers (A. M. Fry), physicians (Delia Dixon-Carroll), newspaper women (Beatrice Cobb), politicians (T. Palmer Jerman, and the most famous of all, (according to Lawrence) Dolly Madison.
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43204
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In the beginning of the article the author talks about how women fall through the cracks in the STEM field. They give the analogy of women falling through the leaks in a pipe in which they leave the field but they then state that they are not a path, pipe, or road but a complex system. They talk about gaining an interest in wildlife from visiting natural resource centers in Charlotte and growing up watching “ Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.” The author states that their interests growing up included exploring, fishing, riding ponies, and fox hunting. The school subjects the author excelled in during school was biology, chemistry, physics and math. The author got their undergraduate degree in biology from UNC Chapel Hill and worked mostly in genetics and botany labs. The author talks about in 2018 that they got the position of assistant chief of the Wildlife Diversity Program in the Wildlife Management Division.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 85 Issue 6, November-December 2021,
p8-9
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15864
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Use of informal, sometimes grammatically incorrect language, to write her book Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South, Dr. Lu Ann Jones conjures up a gritty account of real women in early20th-century North Carolina. Using of oral history, Dr. Jones explores the variety of work and various roles women filled during this period.
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22452
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According to Seawell Jones, Esther Wake was supposedly a sister-in-law to Governor Tryon for whom Wake County was named. She is also said to have influenced the decision to build a Governor's Palace in New Bern in 1766. More modern historians have disputed her existence. However, letters of several contemporaries provide firm evidence of her influence on colonial affairs.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 14 Issue 4, April 1915,
p220-224
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43602
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Since 1987, Women's History Month has become an important part of American tradition. Celebrating iconic names like Virginia Dare, Dorothea Dix, Pauli Murray, Ava Gardner, and many more, March honors these "heroines whose bravery, compassion, and determination" has helped shape North Carolina history--as well as the world.
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