Champagne Sundays – special
‘Southwest Women in History’ Show
Sunday, March 9, 2008

National Women’s History Month:
This special show is in honor of March being National Women’s History Month. National Women's History Month's roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1981, that Congress established National Women's History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Every year since, Congress has passed a resolution for Women’s History Month, and the president has issued a proclamation. To listen to the entire, unedited show, please double click on the Play Button below.

To listen specific interviews, please follow the links below.

Featured Guests include:

Edith Mayo
Edith will be a return guest on our show to talk about the skilled New Mexican potter, Maria Martinez; and Julia Morgan, the architect who built the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Edith is Curator Emeritus in Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where she worked for over thirty-five years as a curator and historian. At NMAH, she actively collected for the Museum’s holdings in women’s history, politics, civil rights, and voting rights, and strongly advocated the importance of 20th century collecting in museums. Mayo was several times elected to the National Council of the American Studies Association. Edith lectures widely on women’s history and the First Ladies and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. In 2002, she curated and scripted Enterprising Women, a national traveling exhibition on women business entrepreneurs for the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Research, Harvard University. To hear her inteview – Click Here.  

Alison Salutz
Alison is the Museum Educator at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, Colorado.  During her one and half years at the museum, Alison has participated in a number of projects such as ‘Molly Brown: Biography of a Changing Nation’ a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In addition Alison runs the museum’s 12 outreach programs, schedules group tours, and is responsible for the development of additional programs.  Alison earned a BA in French and Sociology from St. Norbert College, and a MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies at the University of Denver.  Alison will be joining us on the show to talk about Molly Brown, who has been the subject of many books, movies and stage productions, and has become one of Denver’s most intriguing legends. To hear the interview - Click Here.

Joan Anderson Meacham
Joan is the Co-Founder and Director of the Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail. In collaboration with the Arizona State University; Institute of Humanities Research of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Governor Janet Napolitano, Honorary Chair, the AWHT is dedicated to the development of a statewide collection of historic sites related to women – their experiences and contributions in the development of Arizona, and to the promotion of women’s history to citizens and tourists. The AWHT has been designated as a legacy program by the Arizona Centennial Commission in honor of the forthcoming statehood centennial celebration in 2012 and has also been funded as a “We the People initiative” by the National Endowment for the Humanities Council. To find out more about Joan Meacham and to learn about the Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail, and hear the interview – Click Here.

Jan Cleere
Author and freelance writer Jan Cleere writes extensively about the desert southwest, its unique characters, creatures, and vegetation. Her work appears in numerous regional publications such as Arizona Highways Magazine, Chronicle of the Old West, and more. Jan’s first book, ‘More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women’, was a 2006 WILLA Literary Award finalist, and a 2006 Arizona Press Women's literary competition finalist. The Nevada Women's History Project elected Jan to its Roll of Honor for "her significant contribution in the preservation of Nevada's women history." Her second book ‘Outlaw Tales of Arizona: True Stories of Arizona's Most Famous Robbers, Rustlers, and Bandits’, was recognized nationally in 2007 as winner of the National Federation of Press Women's literary competition for historical nonfiction. She has just released her third book ‘Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers.’ To hear the interview – Click here.

John T. Cullen
A professional write for most of his life, John is the author of more than 20 books, including the acclaimed ‘A Walk in Ancient Rome’. He has been a newspaper reporter, and held writing jobs as a soldier in the U. S. Army in West Germany during the 1970s. John is coming on our show to talk about his book ‘Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado’. The Kate Morgan story is a true-life mystery--an enigma, a 'riddle of the sands'--involving a famous ghost that even today still haunts a great resort in a spectacular tourist destination. This book examines the global implications of the so-called Kate Morgan story, and offers a new explanation of the mystery, in which not one woman, but two women and at least one man were involved in a blackmail plot gone horribly wrong, with the worst possible timing during an international crisis that actually reached from London to Honolulu. This true crime mystery and historical event lives on in today's ongoing ghost story at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. To hear the interview –  Click here.