Below is the Carmine Guica Young Historians Update for March 2021.
For more information, assistance or to arrange a program, please e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com or call 802-226-7807.
The CHS Winter 2021 newsletter is now available on-line and includes an in-depth article on Epidemics/Pandemics. This is all the more timely as March 11 marks the beginning of the 1918 Flu pandemic.
March is both National Women’s History Month as well as Irish-American Heritage Month. For years I’ve made Irish soda bread, played wake games, and shared Irish heritage with our students on or about March 17. Each year we have a project, such as making St. Brigid’ crosses or learning to draw a Celtic knot. Since the Irish have a long tradition working with metals, last year I purchased wire and planned to teach the students about this craft by making Irish inspired rings. If there is a way we can make this happen, happy to visit the school or work with a home school pods. In the meantime, I’ve included my Irish soda bread recipe at the end of this post. Another Zoom option is having Bob (my husband who is a fiddler who plays in an Irish band) join a class with his twin fiddle partner to talk about and demonstrate Irish music.
NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: This year’s theme is “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to be Silenced.” The CHS blog has been running a series for the last several years called Cavendish Women You Should Know. Below are links to stories about Cavendish Women
First Ladies of Cavendish: Political/Postmaster
& other town positions
Beyond
Cooking and Cleaning An
overview of what life was life for women who helped to settle Cavendish as well
as women who worked in the mills, owned businesses as well as those who worked
in health care, including three sisters who became doctors.
Beyond Cooking and Cleaning: Cavendish Teachers
Young Women Entrepreneurs-Artists Lily Calabrese and Miranda Kae Jewelry
Barbara Phillips/Cavendish Mills
Natalia Solzhenitsyn & Yekaternia Svetlova
Taylor Tice Outer Limits Brewery
• March 8 (Monday): International Women’s Day: This year’s theme is Choose to Challenge.
• Down load a free copy of Think Like a Girl: A Coloring Book of Women Pioneers in STEM
• Women’s History Month: The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
• Native Women Making Change: Free program from the National Museum of the American Indian
• National Women’s History Museum The Museum offers free 30 minute electronic field trips for classes on a wide variety of historic topics, posters and much more for students and teachers. https://www.womenshistory.org/students-and-educators
IRISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: March, with St. Patrick’s Day, is a good time to talk about the influence of the Irish on Vermont and Cavendish. Please see my note at the beginning of the post about program options.
• National Archives Irish American Heritage Month
• Samhain in Vermont from the Burlington Irish Heritage Festival. This includes an hour long film including dance and music from Ireland performed by local
• Pre-Famine Irish in Vermont, 1815–1844 Vermont History 74 (Summer/Fall 2006): 101–126.©
2006 by the Vermont Historical Society.
HISTORICAL DATES FOR MARCH
• March 4, 1933: Franklin Roosevelt delivered his famous inaugural address “"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...”
• March 5,1770: The Boston Massacre The first man killed was Crispus Attucks, an African American.
• March 10, 1862 - The first issue of U.S. government paper money occurred as $5, $10 and $20 bills began circulation.
1880 - The Salvation Army was founded in the United States. The social service organization was first founded in England by William Booth and operates today in 90 countries.
• March 11, 1918: The 'Spanish' influenza first reached America as 107 soldiers become sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. One quarter of the U.S. population eventually became ill from the deadly virus, resulting in 500,000 deaths. The death toll worldwide approached 22 million by the end of 1920.
• March 15, 44 B.C: “Beware the Ides of March,” Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate.
• March 17: Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
1776 – During the American Revolution the British completed their evacuation of Boston following a successful siege conducted by Patriots. The event is still commemorated in Boston as Evacuation Day.
• March 21: First day of Spring
• March 22, 1972 - The Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Senate and then sent to the states for ratification. The ERA, as it became known, prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender, stating, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex," and that "the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Although 22 of the required 38 states quickly ratified the Amendment, opposition arose over concerns that women would be subject to the draft and combat duty, along with other legal concerns. The ERA eventually failed (by 3 states) to achieve ratification despite an extension of the deadline to June 1982.
• March 23, 1775 – Patrick Henry gave his famous speech, which ignited the American Revolution before the Virginia convention in Richmond, stating, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
• March 28, 1979 - Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurred in which uranium in the reactor core overheated due to the failure of a cooling valve. A pressure relief valve then stuck causing the water level to plummet, threatening a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. The accident resulted in the release of radioactive steam into the atmosphere, and created a storm of controversy over the necessity and safety of nuclear power plants.
• March 29, 1974 : After having been expelled from Russia, the Nobel Prize winner and Soviet dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was reunited with his wife and family after a six week exile in Switzerland. The family would ultimately settle in Cavendish in 1976. Read an account of his arrival from the New York Times
• March 30, 1981: Assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan
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| CCC Volunteers |
• March 31, 1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC, was founded. Unemployed men and youths were organized into quasi-military formations and worked outdoors in national parks and forests. One of the CCC camps was located in the Proctor Forest in Proctorsville. This area is being restored. If there is interest, CHS can arrange for a walking tour there in the spring.
Famous people born in March: Glenn Miller (1st), Sam Houston (2nd), Alexander Graham Bell (3rd), Michelangelo (6th) Amerigo Vespucci (9th), Claire Boothe Luce (10th), Scientist Joseph Priestly-discovered oxygen (13th), Lucy Hobbs-first female American dentist (14th), Andrew Jackson (15th), James Madison (16th), Grover Cleveland (18th), BF Skinner-psychologist (20th), Johann Sebastian Bach (21st), Harry Houdini (24th), Tennessee Williams- playwright (26th), John Tyler (29th), Vincent Van Gogh (30th), Franz Joseph Haydn (31st).
Irish Soda Bread
Recipe from Brenda Gregory’s, former Cavendish resident, mother who was from County Cork, Ireland. This is a very typical Irish recipe
4 cups white flour
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
1 cup sugar (I use unrefined, raw or turbo sugar)
• Blend the above.
• Cut in small lumps of butter 1 and ½ sticks and blend. Will have the consistency of a pie dough.
• Add 1 cup currants and 1 and ½ cups buttermilk and ¼ cup caraway seeds.
• Blend until mixed.
• Form a large ball and divide in half.
On a large baking sheet (use parchment paper) lay each half. Not too close together as they spread. You can use two cake pans or cast iron skillets.
Can
brush tops with a mix of 1 egg yolk plus 2 T of water and then sprinkle with
sugar. (I don’t do this). Make sure to make cuts across and side ways (cross shape) to "let the fairies out."
Bake at 350 for 55-60 minutes
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