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Writer Maya Angelou and astronaut Sally Ride will be first in series of women to appear on U S quarters
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Maya Angelou and Sally Ride to appear on U S quarters
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Maya Angelou and Sally Ride Will Be Honored on Quarters
The coins are part of a new U.S. Mint program that will feature as many as 20 American women.
Coins celebrating the writer and poet Maya Angelou, left, and the astronaut Sally Ride will be issued next year as part of the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program.Credit.United States Mint
May 9, 2021
The writer and poet Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, are the first women who will appear on a series of quarters to be issued by the U.S. Mint over the next four years.
Mary Jane Whitaker
Among the first of these was Mary Jane Whitaker, wife of William Whitaker, Sarasota’s first pioneer settler.
As gutsy as she was small she stood in at 5 feet tall the diminutive Mary Jane was fearless. Besides contending with the hardships inherent in surviving life on the frontier, she faced danger from marauding Seminole Indians who burned her Yellow Bluffs home down in a raid.
Later, she went toe-to-toe with Union soldiers during the Civil War who threatened to burn her second home down. Legend has it that Mary Jane handed the officer in charge a match, saying, “I want to look in the eyes of a man who can stoop so low as to burn the house of a helpless woman and her children.” He and his men rode off leaving the Whitaker home standing.
Starting as early as 1919, Minneapolis planners had big ideas for city Since 1919, Minneapolis Planning Commission has looked to the future. May 7, 2021 11:26am Text size Copy shortlink:
One hundred years ago, the city of Minneapolis embarked on a bold new idea: designing the future instead of letting it happen.
Minneapolis, said the editorial page of the Tribune on May 10, 1921, comes in for commendation from St. Cloud Journal Press, which says that in its city planning commission Minneapolis has what every city should have. Most cities, says the Journal Press, adopt the Topsy plan of just growing up.
The preening editorial continued, pointing out St. Cloud s pitiful planning process:
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