Noonday March 2022 Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Women and Running Suzanne Wilson Crable I started running when I was a camp counselor at Christ Church Camp training to take the lifeguard test. There was a trail around the perimeter of the main camp that I ran with two guys imported from Britain, one an archery champion and the … Read More
Dessert Storm
Presented on February 1, 2020 by Vanessa Freytag There is a scene in Nora Ephron’s award winning Sleepless in Seattle in which Sam (Tom Hank’s character) has sought guidance from his friend Jay (Rob Reiner’s character) about getting back into dating after the death of Sam’s wife. Jay is trying to prepare Sam for the fact that dating in … Read More
Better Sex Through Socialism
“Better Sex Through Socialism” Noonday March 2, 2019 Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh When I signed up for this talk, I thought, what do women need to think about now? As a long-time women’s historian and a feminist, here are three things I am thinking about right now—yet none of them … Read More
Generational Drift
A Paper for NoondayMarch 3, 2001 Generational Drift Presented at Noonday by A.K. Carey March 3 2001 In 1985, at age 76, my mother bought a computer, taught herself how to use it, and sat down to write a history of her family as seen through the lens of the Civil War and its aftermath. She said she … Read More
An Aerie of Children: the Child-Acting Companies in 16thCentury London
By Anna K. Carey Presented at Noonday February 2, 2013 by A.K. Carey , February 2 2013 Yes, indeed, in the late 16th century, that period when English drama rose to its high-water mark, there were, in London, acting companies made up entirely of children, boys between the ages of 9 and 15, boys whose voices had not yet … Read More
Women’s Work: from Penelope to Pelosi
Delivered by A.K. Carey at Noonday 2013 Women have always worked hard. Until the beginning of this century, household tasks were brutally hard work. They required physical stamina and intellectual initiative. They were also only marginally associated with gender. It is important to remember that until very recently most women and men performed the same occupational functions. Until … Read More
“A sort of magic around us:”1 Sara and Gerald Murphy 1921-1934
Delivered by A.K. Carey at Noonday December 2008 It all started in the early 1900’s in Cincinnati with a self made millionaire and his three daughters, who were, by all accounts, the epitome of Gibson Girl beauty, grace and poise . This is especially the story of Sara, the eldest, who in the 20’s charmed and inspired the avant-guard … Read More
Sherlock, Shoes, and Sausages: A summer Idyll
Presented at Noonday by AK Carey 2003 This is a story of hubris and humility, of naivety and ingenuity, of optimism, courage, and stupidity, and of luck both good and bad. It is, in short the tale of a trip to England taken 30 years ago by me and my 4 children with very little money, no experience, and … Read More
COMFORT or CONFLICT: The “F” Word
Noonday April 6th, 2019 Leslie McNeill The “F” word is a noun: FOOD. When I was growing up food was for comfort and community and only became a source of conflict when you refused to eat your lima beans. Now, it seems that food is the source of anguish and explanation and defense of what you do or don’t … Read More
The Right Side of the Tracks
Nathaniel Hawthorn’s : THE SCARLET LETTER was published; Los Angeles and San Francisco were incorporated as cities; LOHENGRIN premiered; President Taylordied, and Millard Fillmore moved into the presidency… and a fifteen year old boy stepped off the boat from Liverpool onto the ground of New York City. Frederick Henry Harvey had about ten dollars in his pocket, ambition, a strong … Read More
A Ghost Story
Georgine Getty Noonday April 6, 2019 When people ask me why I left the Homeless Coalition, the answer I give depends on who they are and why they want to know. I left it to work at a shelter for homeless families so normally I just say something about wanting to see success stories. Or I say I was getting … Read More
“NATURE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW”
Presented at Noonday by A.K. Carey in 1997 This is a paper about the evolution of evolution as much as it is about Charles Darwin and his experiences on the Beagle. Let me begin by explaining what that means and how I came to be interested in a subject that seems so far from my field of literature. When … Read More
Through the GoldenDoor:Perspectives from the History of Immigration.
By Elaine Camarota The Scene: Central Park. The Time: A sunny afternoon. Children are running, playing, and enjoying the release of after school. Zoom in to a bench where the caregivers, all women, sit, mothers, grandmothers, and nannies. One woman is the focus. The other women ask her advice, the kids gather around, and she is fully engaged. Laughing and … Read More
Une Femme à Femmes A Woman to Women Simone de Beauvoir
Paper Written by Mary Claybon Presented to Noonday June 4, 2011 Introduction I do not like to label myself a liberal or Democrat or a feminist, just someone who has not been satisfied to be told how to think. I am open-minded and more of a free spirit, always interested in philosophy and life and enjoy listening to how others … Read More
Alms, Shelton, & Reid: Not a Law Firm, Nor the Mob…
Disclaimer for Noonday paper “Alms, Shelton, & Reid: Not a Law Firm, Nor the Mob…” With this paper I make no claim to expertise in several bodies of knowledge it touches – history, political science, urban planning, historic preservation – some scholars in those disciplines are with Noonday this date. Instead I claim only to know something about housing … Read More
Pink Pussy Hats, Knitting for Good: or How Knitting Helps me cope
Noonday Paper, January 2018 By Diane Engber Anyone who has ever worked with yarn, knitting, embroidering, whatever kind of needlework, has encountered tangles. When the yarn comes off the cone, out of the ball, wrong, and is bunched up in a knot. When I tackle tangles, which happen no matter how careful I am, I like to imagine the world … Read More
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