HOMETOWN PROFILE: North Jackson woman, 99, served as ‘Rosie the Riveter’
NORTH JACKSON — Josephine “Peppy” Riffle Laakso will celebrate her 100th birthday in September. She also will be celebrating many lifetime achievements.
From Youtube: Sherry Carmichael portrays Irena Carpenter, the matriarch of the first white family to settle in Delaware County Ohio, as she describes her family and their moves from Connecticut to central New York and then in 1801 to what became Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio. Music credit: “Dreamstrider” by Cody Martin
This article was copied from The Boston Hospitality Review, and the images, as explained below come from the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio. I hope you will enjoy reading this as much as I did.
By Jan Whitaker
In the summer of 1920 a woman named Mary Love opened The Maramor, a tea room-style restaurant in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The location was in a house once owned by the city’s richest man. After being vacated by his widow in 1895, the handsome 3-story building had housed a variety of tenants including doctors, a Turkish bath, and the State Palace, a Chinese-American restaurant.
Generally, I am only writing about women who have passed, but right now, our rights are on the line. We are in an era of modern suffrage, in the sense that women are being erased whenever they speak. DEI on college campuses needs to be eliminated, just as Affirmative Action was ended by the Supreme Court. There is no “inclusion” on college campuses when you “exclude” women under the guise that you are somehow looking out for people’s rights. If a man wants to pretend to be a woman, the first thing he needs to do is RESPECT women. Non-biological women do NOT get to get awards on International Women’s Day (President Biden), they do not get to invade our sororities (University of Wyoming), they do not get to go into our locker rooms (Ohio State University – Phillip Heit), and they do not get to play women’s sports.
Where is #metoo now? Where are the #feminists who profess to be concerned about women’s rights? While these two groups annihilate women, in favor of men, conservative women are standing strong and standing up to the hypocrisy we are now facing. Now we know who is really in favor of women’s rights. Now we know, what some of us have suspected all along. They didn’t burn any bra’s, they handed them over to men and asked them to join along.
Oberlin College lost a lawsuit against Gibbon’s Bakery, for trying to take down this wonderful small business owner. Do they really need to exist anymore as a college? Should you really be putting your money into a business that continues to eradicate decent people, trying to look out for the welfare of others? Kim Russell is a heroine. She will go down in history, like Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan for protecting women from men who are trying to take advantage of women. Misogynists, plain and simple. Oberlin is a misogynist and they are Anti-American, Anti-Small Business, this is not a safe place for young women to attend college.
This is a practice presentation that I did for the Ohio Local History Alliance a week ago. The live presentation was delivered yesterday at 9am. I actually think I did a better job here because I was more relaxed and not worried about the time. I hope you like it!
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