Episode 261: Wangari Muta Maathai, Part One

by | Mar 13, 2025 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts

Wangari Maathai, 2008 via Oregon State University

Wangari Maathai understood the vital connections between living things and the Earth; of local communities and the wider world. It is true that many trees make a mighty forest, and Maathai’s Green Belt Movement made it clear to us all that the most important change for the greater good is one that each individual makes in their own backyard… a philosophy which would earn her the Nobel Peace Prize.

The map that Beckett found up high in an antique store.

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Episode 260: Georgia Gilmore

by | Feb 12, 2025 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts

Georgia Theresa Gilmore was born on February 5, 1920, in Montgomery, Alabama, where she lived and worked her entire life. And,as we explain in the podcast, that life was far from easy. By the time she was in her 20s she had a long list of jobs including laundress, railroad tie-changer, midwife, and the one that she used to solely support her growing household of six children, her mother, and various extended family: a cook.

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