BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//100 Rural Women - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:100 Rural Women X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://100ruralwomen.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 100 Rural Women REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220713T200000 DTSTAMP:20220630T203506Z CREATED:20220630T200629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T203506Z UID:6290-1657738800-1657742400@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:July Book Club - Radium Girls DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading Radium Girls by Kate Moore! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nThe Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty\, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water\, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. \nMeanwhile\, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job\, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive – until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. \nBut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects\, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold\, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century\, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come. \nWritten with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace\, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium\, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations\, research into nuclear bombing\, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/july-book-club-radium-girls/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220511T200000 DTSTAMP:20220502T143725Z CREATED:20220502T132459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T143725Z UID:5899-1652295600-1652299200@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:May Book Club - Educated DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading Educated by Tara Westover! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nTara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho\, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother\, a midwife and healer\, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals\, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions\, even burns from explosions\, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. Then\, lacking any formal education\, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University\, where she studied history\, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her\, taking her over oceans and across continents\, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far\, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers\, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes and the will to change it. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/may-book-club-educated/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-13-at-4.31.24-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220413T200000 DTSTAMP:20220322T140406Z CREATED:20220322T140307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T140406Z UID:5425-1649876400-1649880000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:April Book Club - Girl Runner DESCRIPTION:This month\, we will be reading “Girl Runner” by Carrie Snyder. \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nGirl Runner is the story of Aganetha Smart\, a pioneering athlete who captured world attention during the 1928 Olympics. Now\, at the age of 104\, alone\, and in a nursing home\, she seems forgotten by history. But for the competitive and ambitious Aganetha\, life remains present and unfinished in her mind. When her quiet routine is disturbed by two strangers\, the past rattles up to meet them all. \nResources\n\n About the book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/april-book-club-girl-runner/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-13-at-5.25.06-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T200000 DTSTAMP:20220302T161101Z CREATED:20220302T155755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T161101Z UID:5168-1646852400-1646856000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:March Book Club - Nomadland DESCRIPTION:This month\, we will be reading “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” by Jessica Bruder. \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nFrom the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas\, employers have discovered a new\, low-cost labor pool\, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that Social Security comes up short\, often underwater on mortgages\, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs\, travel trailers\, and vans\, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.” \nIn a secondhand van she names “Halen\,” Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist\, Linda May\, and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions\, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting\, Bruder tells a compelling\, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time\, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May\, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable “Earthship” home\, they have not given up hope. \nResources\n\n Author Interview\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n CSPAN Interview\n \n\n\n Q&A with Author\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/nomadland-book-club/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-11-at-8.26.06-PM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR