Mae K. Silver

Too Hot to Hide: Remarkable Women of Fort Lauderdale

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Association for Computing Machinery 6504698
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780966991369
• ISBN-10: 0966991362
• Artikelnr.: 57993038

Autorenporträt

Mae Kramer Silver has been writing local history for more than two decades. She began writing in San Francisco when she discovered the land her house sat on was part of a Mexican rancho. Before she wrote about her neighborhood, she discovered a story about historic Trolley 130 which had been saved for demolition by a "guardian angel" who worked in the public railway system. Her neighborhood history stretched into stories about all the current neighborhoods that were previously in Rancho San Miguel. Turning to the world of women's history, she wrote The Sixth Star which chronicled the two campaigns the suffragists mounted in California to secure a state constitutional amendment that gave them the right to vote. In between these books, she wrote many articles for journals and newspapers. Mae also is a community organizer. She founded her neighborhood association first called Twin Peaks East, now renamed Corbett Street Neighbors. She sat on the founding board of the San Francisco Historical Society, now called the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. She served as president of the San Francisco History Association, vice-president of the National Council of Jewish Women and was appointed by Superintendent Cortines as chair of the Library Media Committee of the San Francisco School district. As parliamentarian, she served the San Francisco Coalition of Neighborhoods. When she returned to her home state of New Jersey in 2003, she settled in Bordentown, New Jersey in order to tap into her roots and to write about the famous Thomas Paine who lived intermittently in Bordentown during the Revolutionary times. There she founded the Thomas Paine Society of Bordentown, Inc. and created a monthly walk "In the Footsteps of Thomas Paine". That tour became a book with the name In His Footsteps: Finding Thomas Paine in Bordentown, New Jersey. In addition, she wrote Messenger to the World for the New Jersey Press Foundation publication to all the New Jersey newspapers. She also wrote a keepsake for the Thomas Paine Society called Thomas Paine's Christmas Bridge. To explore the beauty of Bordentown's outside wrought iron ornamentation, she wrote Iron Lace. In 2008, when she moved to Fort Lauderdale, she continued to write local history and produced Watch Out, Ivy. Too Hot to Hide is an offshoot of her women's history walk with the same name that she has done once a month. Too Hot to Hide is Mae's ninth book.