Mary Kenney’s rise to fame, or perhaps notoriety, within women reformers’ circles, was fairly well documented due to her connection with the Hull House in Chicago, her move to Boston to work with the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, and her marriage to labor leader and activist Jack O’Sullivan. But after Jack’s death, there isContinue reading “What must it have been like? Speculative fiction about Mary Kenney O’Sullivan”
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Learning about Mary
I first learned about Mary Kenney O’Sullivan as part of a walking tour being developed in 2016. Now called Working Women: Boston Women Find Their Voice, the tour aims to tell the story of cross-class collaboration as women in Boston struggled to secure the vote for women. In 2016, I knew little about the suffrageContinue reading “Learning about Mary”
Discovering the other side of the story
I became a walking tour guide in my early 40s. In the midst of a fulfilling and busy career in fire safety education and outreach, I was looking for something that would get me outside and challenge other parts of my brain. I found it when I stumbled across Boston By Foot, a nonprofit walkingContinue reading “Discovering the other side of the story”
My heroines - amazing women in history 