By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Among those in the audience Saturday for Betty Reid Soskin’s book reading and talk was Agnes Moore, who came to California from Arkansas and worked at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond during World War II as one of the female workers later called “Rosie the Riveters. But Agnes didn’t […]
Oldest park ranger, who influenced ‘Rosie’ museum, speaks in Martinez
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Although Betty Reid Soskin’s work in Richmond during World War II helped the Allied cause, she doesn’t consider herself a “Rosie,” even though other women who helped assemble Victory ships would welcome her into their fold. She secured no rivets. She welded no metal seams. She built no war […]
Voice of the Village: She’s 96 years young!
Who are your heroes? Do you have any? If you were asked to name them, what would you say? I have been in a couple of situations where I was asked to list my heroes. The people who popped into my mind were Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Bobby Kennedy, Gloria Steinem, Harriet Tubman, […]