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Honoring Women’s History Month with PBS Wisconsin Education

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February 29, 2024 Marci Glaus

Wisconsin women have been making history as community builders, industry innovators, government leaders and more for centuries. Learn about some of the notable women in Wisconsin history during Women’s History Month with the PBS Wisconsin Education Wisconsin Biographies collection.

Milly Zantow

Milly Zantow changed recycling in Wisconsin and the world. When she learned about a problem facing her Sauk County community — a landfill closing much earlier than it should — she took action by focusing on recycling. At that time, no one was recycling plastics, but through her ingenuity, Zantow found a way and developed the idea for the numbering system to identify plastics for recycling.

Electa Quinney

Electa Quinney was Wisconsin’s first-known public school teacher and a notable mentor in the Mohican community. Because of the impactful time in which she lived, Quinney’s story shines a light on the broader story of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans who used non-Native and traditional Native education to preserve their ways of life.

Carrie Frost

Carrie Frost was a fly fishing entrepreneur who paved the way for other female business owners in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Even though women could not vote and in many cases could not own property, Frost created a successful manufacturing company, and she gave more than 150 Stevens Point women a chance to earn their wages at a time when they were not often able to do so.

Elizabeth Baird

Elizabeth Baird was a strong woman with fierce determination living on the Wisconsin frontier. Born a native French speaker, Baird taught herself English and worked as an interpreter in her husband’s law firm, all while operating her family’s farm and recording her…

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New clue: Lost 400-year-old village of Roanoke could have stood in Elizabethan Gardens

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Post date February 29, 2024
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The mystery surrounding the Lost Colony, Roanoke and Sir Walter Raleigh’s early explorers is one that’s fascinated generations of North Carolinians.

Next week, archaeologists will dig in the Elizabethan Gardens with hopes of finding new evidence of the lost “Algonquian village of Roanoke” — which was home to Sir Walter Raleigh’s explorers in 1584.

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Last summer, the First Colony Foundation team uncovered tantalizing clues in the ongoing mystery. They dug up shards of Algonquian pottery dating back to the 1500s, as well as a ring of copper wire they believe could have been an earring that once adorned a warrior from an indigenous tribe.

“Finding domestic pottery – the type used for cooking – in close proximity to an apparent piece of Native American jewelry, strongly confirms that we are digging in the midst of a settlement,” says Eric Klingelhofer, the First Colony Foundation’s Vice President for Research.

And Roanoke is the only known village at that site.

A copper ring could mean a village once stood in the Elizabethan Gardens

Historians say copper had an almost spiritual significance for the indigenous tribes.

“They prized the metal the way the English valued gold and silver. For example, tribal chiefs would honor brave warriors with trinkets made of beaten copper, indicating the value native peoples placed on it,” said a release from the First Colony Foundation.

The ring, in particular, supports the idea they may have found remnants of Roanoke.

“Made of drawn copper, the wire was…

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Local Event: Lenape Nation: Past, Present, and Future

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Post date February 29, 2024
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Temple University Professor Adam DePaul, Doctoral Candidate in Cultural and Mythical Studies, will share past and present insights into the significance of the Lenape Nation during this free program. DePaul is focused on raising awareness of Lenape culture and correcting a lot of the misinformation that is often taught about Lenape history.” DePaul has stated, “I have always had a personal passion to tell stories. I thoroughly enjoyed this role because it embraces both my academic life and cultural life.” Pre-registration requested at: friendsofdoylestownlibrary@gmail.com