Celebrate the Women; May Hutton & Teiko Tomita

major funding for this program has provided by the washington centennial commission additional funding is provided by the music and art foundation the washington mutual savings bank foundation mr cliff rand and why the subscribers of kqed's seattle oh me so he is you know i mean the locals celebrating the centennial year this series tells the stories of a few women in washington state history at a time when some thought a woman's place is in the home may arkwright haydn was making headlines for her suffering to work one in ohio a transient mother and an itinerant preacher mainly with her grandfather who was blind she led into political meetings of the town hall kept his house and took him borders by the age of twenty three she was a very independent

character many remain are trying to make their fortune known as the battle ax of the corda lanes she had a heart of gold and a shrewd business and says well a boardinghouse know delicious and homemade bread unsavory porcupines do a six dollars and fifty cents a week a railroad engineer often stated mate's place three months after eagleton the town made an album you know the prospect of a hotel that includes a small operation now in your friends pick and shovel

whether south may have reason to have great sympathy for them speaking greek she published a satirical critique of the companies making profits from the nineties when we had an old darlings of wealth and prideful in politics society these men are those whose labor is made possible for you to enjoy your present position and idleness that name herself was soon to become a curled darling of wealth the idea struck silver became millionaires leisure time let me become involved in state politics

ms harnden wrote to spokane washington and i am a phased in in washington state women didn't have the right amount of suffrage became a cause though her working class roots and flamboyant style didn't always endear her to the seattle suffragists saw this song got me on issues of panicking and we're gonna see it man is not woman speaker and has no inherent right that they can vote for a novelist is fantasy league must now be the human

as membership increased so did tensions between the seattle in spokane factions of the washington suffered association emma smith depot and her supporters in seattle or conservative well educated ladies from the upper middle class may have progressive politics little formal education and newfound wealth the two styles clashed they wrote the college educated women are self centered exclusive ultra conventional devos forces countered i believe you were ineligible to membership because of your obituary use of profane obscene language overall long delays at getting the vote for women was more important than any personal differences may began her own organizations and both groups continue their work they kept up a hectic schedule of lectures and meetings writing i

often think about five year old grandfather would've been if he could hear me and i just want my small things and they did do things with her help washington state women won the vote in nineteen ten a decade before national legislation passed in nineteen twelve she became the first woman delegate ever to attend the democratic national convention names were changed the outlook for women in washington state and she knew it what a beautiful thing it is to sell that when one passes to the great beyond all with one accord will join him praise is one that could work in donating at casey at a seattle series celebrate the women episode

to go to meet her producer catherine hunt this is the stereo mics this is the left channel he'd major funding for this program is provided by the washington centennial commission additional funding is provided by the music and art foundation the washington mutual savings bank foundation mr cliff fun and neither subscribers of kqed's seattle oh me in washington's one hundred years of statehood many women have

integrated women move by necessity which dreams to begin a new life far from home some of them are writers and their words tell us something of their lives she began writing poetry is a school proms to harden and sometimes reflect the experiences of other women that leaks never again of a day when my heart went into my in a strange country and growing own comedian began life of a fun

about how the house was new better in the postseason in the summer you know and now six nights at least to meet or worked along with her husband in the fields she wrote poems on scraps of paper and revise them in the cabin at night to go i never had a scandal in particular they can be written in my back of pain within several years of two meters a rival law passed in washington preventing japanese from owning on leasing land i wasn't devastated taken when nasa moved to a remote part of the valley where he found work in a

nursing it was their far from family and friends with her first child and nehemiah or rather than five miles of irrigation not a sign of a neighbor nominees how many more days to day like any other in unison amen using the dynamite we began clearing the land we plan the saplings as thin as chopsticks and of course had no income during the next decade they slowly built up the business they had four children by then all in school

it is many japanese hastily destroyed precious belongings anything that might be interpreted as an american taken to burn all of the geneva isn't one hundred forty thousand others of japanese ancestry were evacuated to internment camps hey mara little consolation in one of the ironies of camp life to me just suddenly had time to write something she hadn't had since she was a young woman in japan omar and then the smiley iowa the

warden's cover my mind mine lies frozen three years later the world your turn their own crew are learning is the mayor of arlington right wing we are and i think i went to work this is it well into her seventies she eventually published her poetry in japan and the us in nineteen eighty five her poems appeared in breaking the silence a play about the japanese internment in which her grandson a new york actor performed now ninety two to meet it resides in seattle with her daughter me either