by Mari K Eder | Dec 7, 2023 | Newsletters
A dark holiday season arrived early in New York City that year. It was December 1941, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had just occurred three weeks earlier. Everyone was on edge. Even Mae Foley, a New York Policewoman and mother of two grown... 
by Mari K Eder | Nov 2, 2023 | Newsletters
From my November 2023 Newsletter: In September I was watching commentary on the U.S. Open when a broadcaster repeated a quote from tennis great Billie Jean King. He said she often remarked, “Pressure is a privilege.” I was immediately struck by those words... 
by Mari K Eder | Oct 3, 2023 | Newsletters
From my October 2023 Newsletter: In just two weeks, I’ll be in Phoenix, Arizona, where I will be privileged to receive the Historian of the Year Award for 2023 from Historic Hotels of America, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Historic Hotels... 
by Mari K Eder | Sep 5, 2023 | Newsletters
August 26th is nationally recognized as Women’s Equality Day, recalling that day in 1920 when the 19th amendment was certified to the Constitution, recognizing women’s right to vote. In 1920, Mae Foley was thirty-four years old, married, with two young children, and... 
by Mari K Eder | Aug 1, 2023 | Newsletters
National emergencies—wars, disasters, all those things that create sudden change and deep needs—seem to drive progress in many ways. World War I created industries to make uniforms and manufacture war materials. The need for manpower to build American military units...