Sunday, June 19, 2016

small town parades

Right now I'm just nomming on the fact that Mrs Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, Gilded Age One Percenter of Legend and founder of the Metropolitan Opera, helped organize and probably bankrolled a pro-suffrage parade in Manhattan that included a contingent of pro-suffrage men led by Max Eastman, publisher of Ten Days That Shook the World.


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    1. Now I just have to figure out how to work that detail into the narrative :)

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