Show Notes
Remember the Ladies
In this episode, Caitlin and Francesgrace wandered through the cemetery and almost literally stumbled onto the lives and extraordinary times of Mary Lemist Titcomb and Annie Smith Peck.
“I long to hear that you have declared an independency -- and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
Accessibility: A tall rectangular stone with a slightly curved top, dark grey, which reads: Mary Lemist Titcomb | Born May 16, 1852 | Died June 5, 1932 | Founder of the | Bookmobile in the | United States.
Accessibility: A black and white, grainy photograph of Mary Lemist Titcomb, in a white suffragist outfit and holding a newspaper
Mary Lemist Titcomb:
"Before 1876 - About ALA", American Library Association, dynamically generated page. http://www.ala.org/aboutala/before-1876 (Accessed June 20, 2022)
“Mary Titcomb” Western Maryland Historical Library Collection. http://www.whilbr.org/itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=232
“Miss Titcomb Dies After Long Illness” The Morning Herald. (Hagerstown, MD) June 06, 1932.
“Titcomb Dedication” The Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. https://www.friendsofsleepyhollow.org/titcomb.html (Accessed June 21, 2022)
“The First Bookmobile - Washington County Free Library, Maryland”Western Maryland Historical Library Collection. http://www.whilbr.org/itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=232 (Accessed June 20, 2022)
Glenn, Sharlee. Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile. New York: Abrams Books For Young Readers, 2018.
Bonus Link:
FindAGrave - Mary Lemist Titcomb
"Library on Wheels" - Children's Book about Mary Lemist Titcomb
Accessibility Description: The gravestone is a large slab, rectangular with sharp corners. At the top, it reads: Annie S Peck | Daughter of | George B and Ann S Peck | Born October 15, 1850 | Died July 18, 1935. At the bottom, it says: Tribute of Dr John H Finley | At the Celebration of | Her 80th Birthday: | You have brought uncommon glory to women of all time.
Accessibility: A black and white photo portrait of Annie Peck in mountaineering clothing (including her famously scandalous baggy pants). She is leaning on a pickax and there is rope hanging from her belt.
Annie Smith Peck:
Kimberly, Hannah. A Woman’s Place is At The Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of Climbers. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017.
Peck, Annie Smith. A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia Including The Conquest of Huascaran with Some Observations on the Country and People Below. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1911.
Polk, Milbry. “Annie Smith Peck” Living On Earth Today. https://loe.org/series/story.html?seriesID=13&blogID=2
Scialdone-Kimberly, Hannah. “Woman at the Top: Rhetoric, Politics, and Feminism in the Texts and Life of Annie Smith Peck.” Dissertation, Old Dominion University, 2012.
Sutton, Brook. “Climber Annie Smith Peck Shocked the World—By Wearing Pants” Adventure Journal. June 7, 2021. https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/06/historical-badass-annie-smith-peck/
Bonus Info:
Mountains Climbed:
Mount Shasta (14,179 ft/4321.8 meters)
Mount Washington (6,288.3 ft/1,916.7 meters)*
Mount Madison (5,367 ft/1,636 meters)
Matterhorn (14,692 ft/4,478 meters)
Pico de Orizaba (18,491 ft/5636 meters)
Popocatepetl (17,802 ft/5426 meters)
Cristallo (10,568 ft/3,221 meters)
Jungfrau (13,642 ft/4,158 meters)
Fünffingerspitze (9825 ft/2996 meters)
Illampu (20,892 ft/6,368 meters)
Aconcagua (22,837 ft/6,960.8 meters)
Huascaran (22,205 ft/6,768 meters)
Bonus Link:
FindAGrave - Annie Smith Peck
Land Acknowledgment:
We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.
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