Minnesota – Performers and Authors

Samantha “Rastles” the Woman Question: Features 19th century farm wife and rustic philosopher Samantha Smith Allen as she uses horse sense humor and dry wit to “rastle” with questions concerning history’s treatment of women, women’s powerlessness before the law, rights denied by the church, social status, role assumptions, and more. She is particularly pointed about the need for woman’s suffrage. “Whenever he sees me feelin’ so dubersome about not havin’ the suffrage, Josiah nearly always tries to comfort me. He never fails to say, ‘Samantha, you’ve got to remember always that I vote as your representative.’ I cannot begin to tell you how much comfort I derive from that declaration.”

Nice Girls Don’t Sweat: Sammy Kay Knight, English teacher and veteran of the All American Red Heads professional basketball team, tells stories about women’s experiences with athletics over time. Her verbal meanderings engage the enduring themes of physical capacities, propriety, and femininity. “It’s hard to think of yourself as weak and  dependent after you’ve just run five or ten miles.”

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