You know those moments when it is difficult to start writing because there is so much flooding your brain there is a standstill that happens - an energetic standstill so that nothing happens until.... you allow a slight deflation to occur.
An exhale is released and favorite periods and faces come into view.
The city of Concord, Massachusetts is one of those memories. The cemeteries, the author's homes, the revolutionary war history. I lust over such places.
Millworkers, young women, taken from their families in Lowell, Massachusetts a utopia turned another cog-in-the-wheel mentality place. Lucy Larcom, she now has a park, perhaps nearby where her mother ran one of the many boarding hose for young mill girls along the narrow streets there.
I think of the Lorton Workhouse, where the "Iron Jawed Angels" lived and were abused and who stood firm. I think of the recent and current history: the art that is made there, the community around it - partially rural partly "we're near the heart of it" city in Northern Virginia. Suffragists, jailed for standing in places and holding signs. Some for up to nine months. We don't learn this history in usual classrooms - at least I didn't hear of the intensity of the struggle for women to be heard.
History. Varied, dynamic, happening each and every day.
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