OWLS Hold Talks at Vermont Statehouse Women Legislators Meet
Under Rep. Kenalene Collins Readsboro leads the Vermont Order of Women Legislators. The group meets weekly in the Statehouse to share committee updates hash ideas and socialize. At a lunch meeting Sen Margaret Hammond described the abortion bill after it passed in the Senate Vermont’s high female representation in government is noted with Edna Beard identified as the first woman representative.
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Kenalene Collins
Readsboro
Vermont Order of Women
OWLS
Statehouse
Margaret Harmmond
Baltimore
Senate
Hammond
Rep
Collins
Ser
Vermont
Order of Women Legislators
Edna Beard
Vermont Women Legislators and the OWLS Legacy
Vermont's women legislators have organized since 1921, growing from a few to over fifty by 1954. The group, once called the Gwiettes, adopted the Vermont OWLS name in 1938 under national ties. Life Magazine highlighted Vermont's female majority in 1954, noting a strong record and enduring influence in state politics.
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Orange
Warren
Vermont
Annie Pollard
Baltimore
Legislative Ladies
National Order of Women
Women in Vermont Politics Then and Now
In the 1920s through the mid 30s Vermont OWL minutes show women as active yet underrecognized figures. Edna Winship and Flora Coutts are cited, with Judge Barton addressing juries and women’s advocacy shaping state records. The group notes Lt Gov Console Bailey as a rare female leader and laments persistent minority status in politics.
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Judge Barton
Windsor
Iike
May Emery
Barton
Flora Coutts
Newport
Mildred Hayden
Berlin
Oradour sur Glane a macabre ghost town tours the ruin
In Oradour sur Glane France a burned out village remains as a stark memorial to a 1944 massacre by the Das Reich division. Survivors describe the grisly scene while two signs read Scene of Execution and Silence as tourists visit a ruined church and smoldering streets.
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Oradtour-sur- Gane
Das Reich
S.S
Oradgur
Europe
Oradour
Oradour-sur-Glana
Limoges
S.8
Bernard Heinz Lammerding
France
Marguerite Rouffange
New Oradour
Madame Bouftange
Lidice
Czechoslovakia
Oradour-sur-Glane
Limoge
Prize Stories and Novels Featured at Bennington Free Library
A list of new titles across fiction and non fiction including Abraham's Prize Stories 1972 and The Poellenberg Inheritance the lifeboat Seno question and various novels by Bradbury Caldwell and Dickens. The collection spans postwar Europe Ireland India and Greece with works ranging from romance to mystery and drama.
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Abrahams
Anthony
Suspenseromance
Europe
Net-Net
Bradbury
Caldwell
Dickens
Dickinson
Chicago
Fremlin
Bonney
Aardy
Howard
Jenkins
Johnson
Jones
Kurmin
Narayan
India
Neilson
Dolomites
P Peters
Rome
Prou
Savelll
France
Exupery
Spark
Whittle
Victoria
Willams
James McNeill Whistler
Witherspoon
Nndey
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Montpelier
National Order
Gwiettes
Life Magazine
Consuelor. Batley
United States
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Vermont Assembly
Life
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Madeline Harwood
Semington County
Macdean Bartlett
Richford
Mington Banner
Edna Winship
Windham
OWL
Console Bailey
Agriculture Committee
Kenulene Collins
Ning LO Bello
Mang Lo Della
Vatican
Bennington
Manchester
Sleugdine
Bennington Free Library
General Bird
Cahalane
Robert Tigan
Ginny
Chapman
Caroline Matilde
England
George Tl
Garraty
Gassner
Herling
Steelworker's Union
Hermansen
aFa) Hill
Kerr
MacDonagh
Marshall
Mellach
Randolph
Ozark
Morgan
Rogs
Lola Montez
Tregle
Russell
Barnal
Sheehan
Sitwell
Snead
Somersett
Splitfoot
Taber
Amber
West
Anglund
Anglind
Blassingame
Ernest Thompson Seton
Tarpenter
Sone
Carrick
Charlip
Eckert
Hawk's Hill
Eyerly
Laura
Jacobs
Limerick Land
Joseph
Me Nobdy
Miles
Annie
Caldecott
Navarra
Norris
Green
Norton
Parish
Partington
Beauty
Pomeroy
Mallory
Helga
Hinkoff
St.John
Sobol
Brown
Stahl
Williams
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