#Patriots 2/3

Who Really Wore the Leather Breeches in The Boone Family? Hmmm?

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Mar 25, 20143 min read

Beware The Sting of a Patriot Woman’s Pen

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Mar 17, 20142 min read

Mollie Fly–The Woman at the OK Corral

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Feb 10, 20142 min read

Queen of the Klondike…A Great Ride While it Lasted

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Jan 27, 20143 min read

Betsy Ross — She Found the Beauty in the Ashes

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Jan 13, 20143 min read

Putting it All on the … Hem! Elizabeth Poindexter and Her Innocent Needle

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Aug 26, 20131 min read

Esther Reed — Where June Cleaver Got Her Domestic Goddess Genes?

by Heather Frey Blanton Esther De Berdt Reed, though born in England, found the cause of liberty trumped ties to homeland and tradition....

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Jul 25, 20132 min read

Elizabeth Van Lew — A Daughter of the South With the Spirit of a True Hellion

Reprinted from http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/elizabeth-van-lew.html (I highly recommend this website!) Willing to put it on the...

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May 20, 20132 min read

Mom Rinker — the Little Ol’ Lady Who Spied for Washington

She sat up there at the top. There is a rock in Philadelphia along the Wissahickon Creek made famous by a little old lady who was one of...

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Apr 30, 20132 min read

Mary Katherine Goddard — Daughter of the Revolution and Forerunner to Lois Lane?

by Heather Frey Blanton https://www.facebook.com/heatherfreyblanton?ref=tn_tnmn https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton Some women during the...

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Mar 6, 20132 min read

Margaret Corbin — Was She the Woman Who Gave Cornwallis Nightmares?

by Heather Frey Blanton https://www.facebook.com/heatherfreyblanton https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton What doesn’t kill you makes you...

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Feb 26, 20132 min read

Why Won’t You be a Good Girl, Ethel? Just Settle Down and Get Married to that Sheepherder!

by Heather Frey Blanton https://www.facebook.com/heatherfreyblanton https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton Again, I am intrigued to read...

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Feb 11, 20132 min read

Molly Pitcher or Just Mary Hays? A Rose by Any Other Name…

by Heather Frey Blanton Elementary students around the country often get their first dose of female patriots through the legendary...

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Jan 23, 20132 min read

Ethel Tweedie — Could Her Simple Ride Tear Victorian Society Apart?

by Heather Frey Blanton http://www.facebook.com/heatherfreyblanton https://twitter.com/heatherfblanton The cover from her book about...

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Jan 14, 20132 min read

If you listen, my children, shall you hear of the midnight ride of Sibbell Ludington?

by Heather Frey Blanton A true Daughter of the Revolution! Sibbell Ludington Ogden was the daughter of Henry Ludington, the man appointed...

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Jan 7, 20132 min read

What Happens When a Patriot Woman Goes Off the Deep-End? A Legend is Born!

by Heather Frey Blanton Re-enactment. She actually wore a wide-brimmed hat with a feather stuck in it. Perhaps to look more like a man...

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Dec 17, 20123 min read

Killed Her There. Killed Her Infant. Burned Her Home. And Still the Pioneer Women Kept Coming.

by Heather Frey Blanton Recently I’ve been researching a nameless pioneer woman who was murdered, along with her infant, on the...

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Dec 10, 20123 min read

How Many Lives Did Mary Slocumb’s Midnight Ride for Love Save?

by Heather Frey Blanton For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy...

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Nov 26, 20122 min read

Frances Hart Sheftall–The Jewish American Girl Cornwallis Warned You About

by Heather Frey Blanton Grit. Determination. Playing the violin while rockets burst all around. The current conflict in Israel got me to...

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Nov 19, 20122 min read

Rachel and Grace Martin — How the Girls With Guns Sent ’em Running!

The painting would imply the waylay was more exciting than it actually was. When it comes to South Carolina’s Revolutionary War history,...

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Nov 5, 20122 min read