March is Women’s History Month. The National Women’s History Alliance selects and publishes the yearly theme, and this years is: “Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future”. The Alliance explains in order to plan for a brighter future, its important for us to look for examples of women in our communities where women’s leadership was central to empowering people to connect to the landscape and their environment and learn from what they did and how they did it. Here in Salem, there were two such women, Elisabeth Lord and Edith Schryver who operated their Salem landscape design firm from 1929-1969. To learn more please visit lordschryver.org