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Walter Brown Arena • Boston, MA Katie Burt T 2–2 OT: 30–1–2 (20–0–1) WHEA Tournament February 27 Providence* #1 Kelley Rink • Chestnut Hill, MA (Quarterfinals, Game 1) Katie Burt W 6–2 31–1–2 February 28 Providence* #1 Kelley Rink • Chestnut Hill, MA (Quarterfinals, Game 2) Katie Burt W 8–0 32–1–2 March 7
Crittenton, Inc. was the product of a merger between two pioneering women’s rights societies of the late 19th century; the Boston Female Moral Reform Society and the Florence Crittenton Home. [1] Both organizations had similar goals in assisting poor and unwed mothers and ultimately worked together to help these women achieve economic ...
Garland Junior College (1872–1976) was a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts. Mary Garland established the Garland Kindergarten Training School in 1872 on Chestnut Street in Boston's Beacon Hill. By 1903, the school had expanded its curriculum to include home economics, and was renamed the Garland School of Homemaking.
Spare Change News (SCN) is a street newspaper founded in 1992 in Boston, Massachusetts for the Greater Boston Area and published out of the editorial offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts through the efforts of the Homeless Empowerment Project (HEP), a grassroots organization created to help end homelessness.
In July 1973, Tiernan read the article “Women Derelicts: To Be Old, Homeless, and Drunk,” in The Real Paper, and learned homeless women in Boston were disguising themselves as men in the hopes of getting into male-only shelters. The article solidified for Tiernan that there was inequality among poor men and women, which stuck with her.
Jewish Women's Collaborative International Fund (JWCIF) is a non-profit organization that promotes women's rights and gender equality. Its member organizations include Jewish Women's organizations in the United States and Israel.
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a monument erected in Boston Common in downtown Boston, dedicated to soldiers and sailors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who died in the American Civil War. Designed by Martin Milmore, construction began in 1874 and the monument was dedicated on September 17, 1877.