Today's Columbus Day Quote

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. 

Author Unknown

Today's Quote... A True Hero

"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." 

Susan B. Anthony

Our Heroes

From the New York Times, 1921

Honoring Yesterday's Heroes

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet, born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, CT. was an American abolitionist and the author of the famous slavery novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', one of the most important novels in American history.  She died in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 6, 1896.