Yesterday, USA Today featured a story about Fort Lauderdale turning 100 this year. We will be traveling there in April for a history conference.
For many years, the city's main newspaper was the Fort Lauderdale News. In the 1960s, its women's page editor was the wonderful Edee Greene. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards for her progressive section and was a founding member of the city's domestic violence shelter.
She was also quite funny. She wrote a humor column and her letters are witty. (Her letters can be found in the Penney-Missouri papers at the University of Missouri.)
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Your blog is a TREASURE! I am writing a book featuring a woman's advice columnist circa 1970 (I blog in her name http://dearhelenhartman.blogspot.com/) and the info I get here just inspires me as a woman and a writer.
Thank you for your kind words. I love your blog, too!
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