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Mulatos of Cochiti

The Mulatos of Cochiti By Robert D. Martínez On 21 March 1777 at the Pueblo church of San Buenaventura at Cochiti in the Province of Nuevo México, a baby boy was baptized by the parish priest. The child was named Julián Ramón Salas and was the son of Alonso…

Georgia O’Keeffe

11 18 1887 “If ever there was a raging, blazing soul mounting to the skies it is that of Georgia O’Keeffe.” New Yorker Magazine, 1926 By Michael Ann Sullivan Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 18, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, eight miles north of Madison. She was the…

Harvey Girls

Restauranteur Fred Harvey's biggest challenge was not delivering fresh food to his far-flung outposts but finding reliable help, so he placed advertisements in the East and the Midwest for single "young women, 18 to 30 years of age, of good character, attractive and intelligent." These women became the famed…