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Today, we dive into the remarkable life of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard — a woman whose courage not only challenged the 19th-century mental health system but also became a beacon for women's rights and legal reform.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Packard

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/elizabeth-packard

https://strongwomeninhistory.com/2024/12/02/elizabeth-ware-packard-silent-no-more/

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/careandcustody/collection-detail.html?imgid=4&imgName=OB12790-md

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcj83

https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/01/elizabeth-packard.html

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Today we’re focusing on a woman whose quiet courage changed the course of history — Miep Gies.

You might know her as the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. But Miep’s life story is much richer than that moment alone. It’s a story of compassion, bravery, and moral conviction in a time when silence could mean complicity, and speaking out could cost you everything.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/miep-gies/

https://www.biography.com/history-culture/miep-gies

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miep-gies

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46579517/miep-gies

https://hmd.org.uk/resource/miep-gies/

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Today, we travel back to the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — July, 1863. The Civil War is raging. Muskets crack. Cannons thunder. And amid the chaos, a 20-year-old woman kneads bread dough in her sister’s kitchen.

Her name is Jennie Wade, she will become the only direct civilian casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Jennie Wade wasn’t a soldier. She wasn’t a spy. She wasn’t part of any grand political plot. She was a daughter, a sister, and a seamstress— born May 21, 1843, right in the town that would soon become infamous.

Sources:

https://www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com/jennie-wade-house/history/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Skelly

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7606339/jack-skelly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Wade

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-virginia-jennie-wade

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1064/jennie-wade

newspapers.com sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1142375889/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

https://www.newspapers.com/image/38246632/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

https://www.newspapers.com/image/24457449/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

https://www.newspapers.com/image/904937499/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Virginia%20Wade

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Hello and welcome to Breakfast with Mom!  Today we talk about one of the most destructive fires in American history, The Peshtigo Fire of 1871.  Please leave of a review of this episode wherever you listen- it helps us to reach new listeners.

Sources- 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo,_Wisconsin

https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS1750

https://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire

https://www.history.com/articles/peshtigo-fire-america-deadliest-wildfire

https://peshtigofiremuseum.com/

https://peshtigofiremuseum.com/list-of-dead-in-peshtigo/

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Hello and welcome to Breakfast with Mom!  Today we talk about the complicated life of Harry Allan.  People can sometimes be compared to an onion and how we have many layers.  With Harry there were definitely layers.  

Sources:

https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2019/03/nell-pickerell-transgender-youth-knute-berger/

https://www.kuow.org/stories/nell-pickerell-trans-man-seattles-rough-and-tumble-days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Allen_(trans_man)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/217566326/harry-allen

And newspaper articles 

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West Dallas is an area consisting of many communities and neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas, United States. West Dallas lies just west of Downtown Dallas, north of Oak Cliff, and east of Irving and Grand Prairie.

Largely lying in the Trinity River floodplain, the area's history has been largely defined by its relationship to the river, to industry, and to downtown. Although not incorporated into Dallas until the 1950s, West Dallas has had a close but problematic relationship to the city since its founding. The area is currently undergoing significant changes due to its central location within the city, attracting new development and revitalization efforts but also threatening existing communities.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Dallas

https://blog.smu.edu/engagedallas/resource-library/history-of-west-dallas/1907-beginnings-of-cement-city/

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/cement-tx

https://issuu.com/advocatemediadallas/docs/oc-3-17/s/26860175

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1507637/el-camposanto-de-cemento-grande

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Today’s episode is something I have wanted to cover for a while and with this being the 32nd anniversary of the death of Mia Zapata and thought this would be the best time to dive into her life, death and legacy.

Mia Katherine Zapata was an American musician who was the lead vocalist for the punk rock band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was raped and murdered in Seattle in 1993 while walking home from the Comet Tavern at the age of 27.  The crime went unsolved for a decade before her killer, Jesus Mezquia, was arrested in 2003. The following year, Mezquia was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 36 years in prison.

Sources:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6840130/mia-zapata

https://unsolved.com/gallery/mia-zapata/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/music/the-gits-mia-zapata-reissues.html

https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2023/10/09/mia-zapata-murder-of-a-front-woman/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Zapata

Interview: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/nx-s1-5037926/drummer-steve-moriartys-book-remembers-mia-zapata-lead-singer-of-the-gits

Home Alive:

https://www.teachhomealive.org/

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/125045908-mia-zapata-and-the-gits

https://www.amazon.com/Mia-Zapata-Gits-Story-Revolution/dp/1627311505

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Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!  Today I want to tell you about Florence Clementine Thornton Butt, she was an American businesswoman best known as the founder of what would become the H-E-B Grocery Company, one of the largest privately owned supermarket chains in the United States.

Resources:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43093117/florence_clementine-butt

https://www.northchannelstar.com/2023/03/florence-thornton-butt/

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/butt-florence-thornton

Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/michelleregna/i-dont-miss-this

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Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom!

This one will be a short but sweet episode.

Sadie "The Goat" Farrell is a legendary figure in New York City's 19th-century criminal folklore, renowned for her audacity, cunning, and fierce independence. Her story, though steeped in myth, offers a glimpse into the gritty underworld of the era.

Resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Farrell

https://www.historiclowermanhattan.org/criminals/sadie-the-goat

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ny-sadiefarrell/

https://www.sadiesward.com/history-of-sadie

say what: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388290/audrey-backeberg-missing-wisconsin-woman-found

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stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/1kqs9dg/man_sues_whataburger_for_almost_1m_over_noonion/

https://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/1krcj2e/florida_man_shoots_neighbors_cow_5_times_after_it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/1kud3fj/hot_diggity_dog_wienermobiles_put_on_riveting/

https://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/1krlwc4/postal_worker_arrested_on_dui_charge_after/

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Logo Artwork: Strawbeary Studios https://www.youtube.com/@StrawbearyStudios/featured

Episode was researched and written by the Teen Daughter

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