Discover hidden women and other folks overlooked by history. Find your own history.
No matter where we live, we’re surrounded by HiddenHerStories and MOREStories about people who’ve made our place on the planet better. I search for and spotlight hidden women and other overlooked folks wherever I visit and of course, where I live. I want public histories to be truly complete so we can celebrate ALL the people who’ve made our communities shine.
Check out stories and walks and talks around my new home in Maryland adjacent DC. And you can learn about plenty of awesome central Texas changemakers from my 33 years there. You’ll also find hidden sheroes from around the world such as cool historical Amsterdam women and rad Rocky Mountain rebel girls. Coming up next: awesome women of Lisbon and Florence.
YOU CAN ILLUMINATE LOCAL S/HEROES!
I hope you’ll be inspired to dig up and share stories of awesome overlooked people in your own community and family! Help educate our communities about our diverse past and future changemakers.
Herstory Walking in the DC area
Like to walk as you learn about awesome women and other overlooked community members? Join me! We’ll explore surprising stories as we ramble a genteel Chevy Chase neighborhood. And amble along as we honor civil rights legend Edith Throckmorton at her park and Ken-Gar neighborhood next to Kensington, Maryland.
Drop me a line here and I’ll add you to a list for upcoming walk notifications. Or get a friend or two or more and let me know of a few best times for y’all to walk and learn. That way it’ll fit your schedule. Thanks!
Upcoming Walks
We’ll honor civil rights shero Edith Throckmorton at her Ken-Gar park and ramble about this historically Black neighborhood and nearby Kensington. As we walk, we’ll learn more about the women and others who made this area thrive. RSVP here to get details.
Meet many marvelous women who pushed for change, including enslaved Charlotte Dupuy, who won her freedom from a top lawmaker and Victoria Woodhull, first woman to run for president. RSVP here to get details.
Featured posts
Check out the latest stories of awesome sheroes and more!
This amazing labor activist spent her last years and died near DC in Prince George’s County. Learn about her incredible life and just one of her fearless and savvy campaigns, the Children’s Crusade.
Civil rights activist Edith Throckmorton is just one of the women and other overlooked awesome folks I look for in my wanderings in “DMV”: Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia. Find out more!
Love nature? Thank Rachel Carson, whose Silent Spring book helped galvanize and grow the environmental movement. Learn more about an awesome Rachel museum emerging in my neighborhood, where Rachel wrote her powerful books.
Finally! I recently moved next door to DC in Maryland, and can’t wait to see all the herstory sites in this book. Here’s my first foray.
Every spot on the globe has plenty of awesome women! Look here to find them where my travels take me. Up now, Amsterdam women, who are as vibrant and fascinating as this beautiful Dutch city.
Meet Juanita J. Craft, a civil rights shero who grew up in Round Rock, Texas, and went on to become known as “the Martin Luther King, Jr., of Dallas!
Check out talks and walks I’ve given about the HerStories and MoreStories in my website and beyond! Get notifications for upcoming events here. Learn and have some fun—we always do.
Get the general low-down about what you’ll find in the Hidden HerStories and MoreStories and neighborhood tours you can take to where it all happened.
Shout-out to spots where EVERYONE is honored for improving the community! Learn about the women of Estes Park, Colorado, who made the beautiful town and national park area better.
Saving memories of a loved one can be easy and quick. And these slices of life are a priceless gift for yourself and all the generations that followed. Get tips on how to start preserving memories and photos of someone you love—even after they have passed.
Georgetown’s Black community rose mightily from its beginnings in slavery to a thriving business district to a neighborhood working to keep their community vibrant.
Learn how Hispanic people grew San Jose and other neighborhoods into wonderful communities and continue to contribute to our rich Georgetown cultural life.
Never heard of North Old Town? It has been here all along in a quiet neighborhood north of the river, and has a history as long and storied as neighborhoods south of the river.
Women have always taken care of business in Georgetown, from working side-by-side with husbands, owning their own, or running an informal enterprise. Check ‘em out!
What could be better for a community than a community library? Find out who made our city library happen, and meet some women who’ve brought us awesome bookstores, too.
The first peoples who lived in what would become Georgetown were the Tonkawas, Lipan Apaches, Comanches, Jumanos, and others. Learn more about their lives as they were forced out of their homes. AND see how Native Americans thrive in Georgetown, Texas, and beyond!
Georgetown women kept our town and its citizens healthy and safe, and brought us libraries, art, music and more. And they preserved our cultural and natural resources.
Georgetown’s “Most Beautiful Town Square in Texas” wasn’t always beautiful. Meet the ladies who rescued the Square from hard times and neglect!
Awesome Georgetown women lived in houses that are fancy or simple or sometimes gone, except for our memories. Come learn how these women contributed to our town herstory!
Follow Jessie with the women of Williamson County as they seek the vote and fight for better communities.
As founder of the Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, Jessie organized hundreds of southern women to fight racial violence.
Women have been sharing the fruits of their education and talents and generosity with Southwestern University since they were admitted to the former all-male school in 1878. Meet some awesome SU sisters!
What could be more fundamental to the wellbeing of a community than education? Meet some of the many much-appreciated educators who made Georgetown flourish through learning. Here’s Part 1; check out Part 2 as well.
Georgetown teachers educated all of our children, excelling despite imposing challenges of discrimination and poor school and teacher funding. Come see where little-known Georgetown schools kept our kids learning!
“Cowboys” doesn’t tell the whole story! Learn more about the women and people of color who were—and are—part of our rich agricultural heritage.
From Fiesta to the Red Poppy Festival to Juneteenth to the olden days of Chautauqua and May Fête, Georgetown loves to celebrate!
Discover fascinating history about people and places in Georgetown and around Williamson County with these awesome books and online sites.