Grace and Gumption
by Pete G
I only caught part of this, but on the second hour of today’s Think on KERA 90.1 FM, they had a really interesting interview with Katie Sherrod, editor of Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women. Herrod discussed the book and the colorful women characters throughout Fort Worth’s history.
While KERA doesn’t have a mechanism to listen to this segment directly, you can subscribe to the excellent show’s podcast here (I do!) and download back segments that way.
Or check out the book which sounds fascinating. You can buy Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women and meet the author all at once on Saturday, November 10 at 2pm. Herrod will be signing her book at the Barnes and Noble at 1612 University.
Below is from theTCU Press description:
Women’s stories often get lost because so much of women’s history resides in private places such as diaries, family scrapbooks, family letters, or papers stored in boxes in family attics. Women often are hard to find, and once found, can be hard to track over time as they change their names when they get married. And sometimes they marry more than once, which increases the challenge. This was what fourteen Fort Worth women took on when they agreed to write a chapter each on the history of women in their city. From pioneer women to the movers and shakers of the mid-twentieth century, Grace and Gumption explores the lives and careers of the prominent and not-so prominent alike, uncovering a fascinating web of connection for readers to see just how bustling Fort Worth was shaped by the distaff side.
UPDATE–Right/Apple Click to Download an mp3 of the segment. I still recommend subscribing to the podcast.
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