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07 / 16
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On this day in 1862 Ida B. Wells was born. Wells fought for equality of women and African Americans—especially the equality of African American women in the suffragist movement. 71 years before Rosa Parks, Wells refused to give up her seat on a train, and when they made her move, she sued the railway company. She won her case in the local court but lost when the railroad took it to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Her refusal to stand in the back of suffragist parades garnered her more media attention for her causes.
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07 / 17
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07 / 18
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07 / 19
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Today is the 160th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention—the first women’s rights convention in the United States.
Start: 11:41 am
The First Annual Pass and Dash is at Furman University from 9am to 2pm, hosted by B93.7 and the Show Them We Care foundation. The NFL Pittsburgh Steelers will help the Upstate Rhinos youth football team replace their team equipment, which was stolen last December. Meet and greet Clemson, Furman and North Greenville football players or join the 5k/1-mile family runs. stwcfoundation.org/Annual_Pass_and_Dash.php.
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07 / 20
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07 / 21
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07 / 22
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07 / 23
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07 / 24
Start: 5:00 am
End: 5:59 am
Amelia Earhart Day honors the birthday of the woman who took aviation and feminism to new heights.
Start: 11:42 am
Come to the Dining For Women fundraising event at St. Andrews Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall. Special guests from “Growth Through Learning,” an educational scholarship program for young women in East Africa, will be there to share their mission. Last year, collective gifts raised from Dining for Women’s dinner giving circles across the nation sponsored eight girls and will be funding the girls’ education in nursing and education through graduation. The event will start at 6:30pm. Donations welcome. diningforwomen.org.
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07 / 25
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07 / 27
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07 / 29
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07 / 31
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08 / 1
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in the United States, was born on this day in 1818. Mitchell was raised in a Quaker community, which was one of the few groups that felt women should have equal educational opportunities as men. She had the notable discovery that sunspots are “whirling vertical cavities” and not, as thought at the time, clouds.
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08 / 2
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” Myrna Loy would have been 103 today. She used her fame in the 1930s-40s to champion the rights of black actors and to give them dignity onscreen, rather than the stereotypes they often played at the time.
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08 / 3
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Martha Stewart’s birthday is today. Bake a cake entirely out of the flour you hand-milled from your personal wheat crop and decorate it with homemade buttercream frosting and fruit from your organic orchard to celebrate.
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08 / 4
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today is the 52nd birthday of Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of eBay. Since resigning from eBay in March 2008, she is considering a run for Governor of California in 2010.
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08 / 5
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Dame Miriam Rothschild, a leading entomologist and zoologist, was born on this day in 1908. Scientifically, she was a foremost expert on fleas and was the first person to figure out the biology of how fleas jump. Socially, she campaigned for the legalization of homosexuality in the U.K. in the 1960s and was a vegetarian—she refused to wear any form of leather or fur.
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08 / 6
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Lucille Ball’s birthday is today…she clashed with CBS execs after they tried not to let her have a pregnancy storyline in her show. They finally caved, but still wouldn’t allow her to say “pregnant.” Throughout the episode, they had to refer to her as “expecting” instead.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Grandma Moses was born 148 years ago today. She started painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult for her to continue her art of embroidery. She went on to become one of America’s most popular folk artists and lived to the age of 101.
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08 / 7
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:59 pm
Don’t miss The Swinging’ Medallions at Larkin’s Rhythm on the River. The summer music series brings some of the top Beach Music talent right from the Grand Strand to the Banks of the Reedy River in downtown Greenville. Last summer, Rhythm on the River raised more than $40,000 for charity. So mark your calendar for every Thursday through September, pack up your cooler, enjoy the tunes and help in the fundraising effort. 7pm, $10 admission. rhythmontheriver.com.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:59 pm
On Thursday, August 7 from 6:30 to 8:00pm, join the staff of skirt! magazine for “Women Who Wine” at Vino 100 in a fun evening of wine and wit! Proceeds will benefit Safe Harbor, an emergency housing shelter and counseling center for women and children who have been victims of domestic violence. For reservations, call 236-8604. Space is limited, so call soon! $15 per person (plus tax) includes four wine tastings, cheese, crackers and tapenades.
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08 / 8
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08 / 9
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:59 pm
Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County, in keeping with its recently adopted environmentally friendly focus, will hold its “Raise the Roof – And Make it Green” annual fundraising event at Fluor Field at the West End 4-7pm. The fun-filled community evening will feature catering, silent and live auctions, and Bluegrass entertainment by Last Road. Children will enjoy “eco” crafts, face-painting, ball bins, autographs by celebrity athletes and Characters-In-Motion. Habitat believes that building homes with a “green” focus promotes financial savings to the homeowner.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Janie Porter Barrett was born on this day in 1865. She founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, a rehabilitation center for troubled girls which was centered on self-reliance and self-discipline. It became a model for other similar schools and was extremely successful—the majority of students found jobs and had families after leaving the facility. It became integrated in 1965 and still exists today under the name of the Barrett Learning Center.
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08 / 10
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Mary Gove Nichols was born 198 years ago, today. She traveled the country speaking about women’s health and anatomy, but was scorned by many of her time for her belief in “free love” instead of marriage, which Nichols considered to be the “annihilation of women.” She believed that health, freedom and sexual liberation were all linked was an outspoken advocate for all three.
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08 / 11
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:59 pm
Safe Kids® Upstate, an organization dedicated to preventing accidental childhood injury and led by Children’s Hospital of Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, will provide bike safety information and give away helmets (while supplies last) during Bike Night at the Drive at the Greenville Drive game. Call 240-4500 or visit greenvilledrive.com.
Start: 4:00 pm
Start: 08/11/2008 - 16:00
End: 08/12/2008 - 16:00
Auditions for New Play Festival will be held at Centre Stage. Actors of every description are urged to audition. Each year, four plays are selected from hundreds of submitted scripts, and the chosen four are presented during Festival week September 8-13. Auditionees are asked to dress comfortably and to bring headshots/resumes if available. 7pm. centrestage.org.
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08 / 12
End: 4:00 pm
Start: 08/11/2008 - 16:00
End: 08/12/2008 - 16:00
Auditions for New Play Festival will be held at Centre Stage. Actors of every description are urged to audition. Each year, four plays are selected from hundreds of submitted scripts, and the chosen four are presented during Festival week September 8-13. Auditionees are asked to dress comfortably and to bring headshots/resumes if available. 7pm. centrestage.org.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Today would have been the 91st birthday of Gladys Bentley, a Harlem Renaissance blues singer. Openly lesbian during her early career (she dressed in tuxedos and top hats with a drag queen chorus line singing back-up and flirted with female patrons), during the McCarthy era, she put on dresses, married a man and claimed that taking female hormones had “cured” her, in order to avoid being put on trial.
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08 / 13
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Left-hander’s Day is today. Approximately 7-10% of the population is left-handed, and left-handed females are rarer than males. Joan of Arc, Queen Victoria, Eudora Welty, Greta Garbo and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are some of these unique, southpawed females.
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08 / 14
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 4:59 pm
The Fantastic Shakers come to Larkin’s Rhythm on the River. The summer music series brings some of the top Beach Music talent right from the Grand Strand to the Banks of the Reedy River in downtown Greenville. 7pm, $5 admission. rhythmontheriver.com.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (often known as L.E.L.), a poet, was born on this day in 1802. While her poetry has not withstood the test of time, she was respected by her contemporaries for paving the way for other female writers. Christina G. Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were just a few of her literary admirers who wrote tributes to her.
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08 / 15
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 10:59 pm
Julia Child, former assistant in the OSS’s Secret Intelligence division and celebrity chef and author, would have been 96 today. Her legendary persona and accessible recipes made her a pop culture icon.
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