Tag: Women’s History
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Fun Fact #77 Who was the First American Woman Impresario?
Read more: Fun Fact #77 Who was the First American Woman Impresario?Fun Fact #77 Who was the first woman in the United States to manage a series of musical concerts, bringing international talent to cities across the Pacific Northwest from 1902 to 1936? Lois Steer, a trailblazing impresario and visionary in the world of music, was the first woman in the United States to manage and promote musicians and musical concerts…
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Fun Fact #48 Which poet has a pocket park honoring her in Nob Hill?
Read more: Fun Fact #48 Which poet has a pocket park honoring her in Nob Hill?Answer: Hazel Hall “The Hazel Hall Poetry Garden” Remembering Hazel Hall: The Portland Poet Immortalized in a Nob Hill Park Hazel Hall began her journey as a writer at just nine years old. Tragically, only three years later in 1898, she contracted scarlet fever. While scarlet fever is easily treatable today with modern antibiotics, no such treatment existed at the…
