Women's Hall of Fame inducts new class Oct 12, 2009
Emma Lazarus, a Jewish immigrant and American poet, who used her writing to advocate for a Jewish homeland and to fight against anti-Semitism. Ruth Patrick, a scientist, who was a pioneer in limnology, the study of the phenomena of freshwater bodies. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Statue of Liberty crown to reopen July 4 May 11, 2009
It faces the entrance to the harbor, welcoming the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," in the words of Emma Lazarus engraved on a bronze plaque inside the statue. The torch has been closed since it was damaged by a saboteur's bomb in 1916. (Yahoo News)
Statue of Liberty will reopen on Fourth of July May 9, 2009
The interior of the statue that poet Emma Lazarus called The New Colossus has been closed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (While Liberty Island and the statues pedestal were reopened in August 2004, the statue itself has remained off-limits to the public. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Scribblers of America, Unite! Mar 9, 2009
The celebrated get their dueHarriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrisonand so do the forgotten: Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Emma Lazarus, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Meridel LeSueur, Ann Petry, and a host of others. Who decides which subjects matter; what voice is appropriate for what kind of story; what books get... (Slate)
