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- <title>
- June 11, 1990: American Notes:Boston
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 11, 1990 Scott Turow:Making Crime Pay
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- Ameican Notes
- BOSTON
- A Historic Walk For Women
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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