This is NOT a woman you could get a beer with.

Carry Nation (1846-1911) was an anti-alcohol fanatic best known for her 'hatchetations': smashing up saloons with a hatchet. Upon one of her more than thirty arrests, she declared, "You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!” 

Thank you for continuing to support The Sewing Circle! All of women's history -- the good, the bad, the hatchetations -- is so important to society, to build self-esteem in girls and women and respect in boys and men (thanks, National Women's History Alliance!). 

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