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. Click here to get on my mailing list to learn about new stories and walks!

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!

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.

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.

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.