Women Who Tell Our Stories 

As an Oral Historian and Podcaster that theme is perfect. I interviewed several women who inspire me and I feel the need to tell their stories from a former FBI agent, cheese maker, authors, mayor, doctor, state representative, activist, death worker…

We wanted to celebrate all women as in anyone that identifies as a woman because Women’s History Month is for all women!  Before we get into the interviews I wanted to celebrate some amazing trans and nonbionary people. https://www.masstpc.org/black-history-month-means-black-trans-and-nonbinary-history/            https://www.autostraddle.com/10-lesser-known-trans-women-pioneers-from-history-316582/     

14:50 Cole Imperi: (book coming out in 2024) A Guide to Your Grief

59:37 Kathy Stearman:  It’s Not About the Gun: Lessons from My Global Career as a Female FBI Agent   https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Not-About-the-Gun/Kathy-Stearman/9781643137308

1:29:31 Dr. Rita Fleming: Does Grandma Have a Mustache  and Did Grandpa’s Dog Pass Gas

https://www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/book/9780986431227

https://www.amazon.com/Did-Grandpas-Dog-Pass-Gas/dp/0986431257

Vincent and Jen talk with genealogist Cynthia Maharrey. She was born and raised in a small town in West Virginia before the turn of the century. Fascinated by the intricacies that make up her own family history, she has been researching and studying it

Cynthia is quite comfortable conducting genealogical research in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. She also has experience conducting research in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Indiana and Illinois. 

5:24 Her appearance on The Dead Files

10:16 Website to use as research

16:24 Forum sites, Complicated Feelings 

27:13 Research Brick Wall Strategies

42:09 DNA research and family secrets

1:10:25 African Ancestery Website

1:14:42 Services Cynthia provides

Happy Black History Month! Vincent and Demond take over this month, and we all share our thoughts on Black History.  Vincent begins with the origins of Black History, and where it is now.
Demond shares the story of Bessie Coleman, who was not only a trailblazer and eyebrow raiser, she was a real-life superhero because she’s one of the first of us to really fly, as the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's lessons. 
Vincent then educates us with an introduction to African Traditional Religions and pays honor to abolitionists that came before us.
We finish with the amazing story of one of the greatest lawmen from the Old West, the incomparable Bass Reeves 
Any comments or questions? Email us at [email protected] or you can email Jen directly at [email protected]

Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flygirls-bessie-coleman/
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/bessie-coleman

https://www.ame-church.com/our-church/our-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_African_religions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_History_Month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bass-Reeves