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- NATION, Page 27Ameican NotesBOSTONA Historic Walk For Women
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- One of Boston's most popular tourist attractions is its
- Freedom Trail, which passes by the historic houses and meeting
- places of some of the nation's Founding Fathers -- but no
- founding mothers. Now the city's educators are rectifying this
- neglect of women in U.S. history by establishing a Women's
- Heritage Trail.
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- The first 20 women whose homes or workplaces will be marked
- by plaques include Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words of The
- Battle Hymn of the Republic; Dorothea Dix, the 19th century
- social reformer; and Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian
- Science movement. Even in Boston, these local heroines have
- been overlooked. When the trail's organizers asked
- schoolteachers to identify some of the chosen 20, many
- questionnaires were returned blank.
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