Five Bullets 3.3.23
This week: Women's Suffrage, Wayne Shorter & more
Hello and welcome back to Circles In Space for Five Bullet Friday, where each Friday I share some interesting stuff I collected during the week.
Good morning and happy Friday all! It’s a cool and sunny morning here in New York City with some clouds and rain predicted later in the day. Earlier this week, we (finally) had our first measurable snowfall of the season.
With most of the topics I present in this newsletter, I’m usually barely scratching the surface. By just jumping in and learning even a small part, I am interested to learn more and revisit these topics over time. My hope is that by sharing with you, this will help to bring your awareness to these topics, events and issues and spark an interest to learn more, as it has for me . The same is true for the women’s suffrage movement - and generally, women’s rights - of which I know very little regarding it’s complex and detailed history. I found some great resources while researching for today’s newsletter and will definitely be reading more.
This week’s bullets:
On Monday March 3, 1913, over 5000 women marched on Washington D.C. in the Woman Suffrage Procession, the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the march was the first national event of the movement. The Women’s suffrage movement dates back to over a century earlier but gained momentum following the first women’s right convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY. During the 1913 march, hostile spectators impeded the procession and caused some 100 women to be hospitalized. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson dispatched a calvary troop to control the crowd. Seven years later, on August 26, 1920 the 19th amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution which states:
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
RIP jazz tenor saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter who died yesterday at age 89. Shorter came up playing in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet, later propelling the fusion movement with group Weather Report. I can recall my first introduction to Shorter’s music, when a drum instructor gave me Schizophrenia to listen to. Thanks for the music Mr. Shorter!
Recently I was gifted a copy of the incredible Encyclopedia of New York City (thanks V!). If you’ve followed this newsletter for just a few weeks, you probably know I’m a big fan of New York City and love sharing any and all info about the Big Apple. Here’s how the city earned it’s nickname:
Big Apple. Nickname for New York City, first popularized in 1925 by John J. Fitz Gerald, a reporter for the Morning Telegraph, who used the term to refer to the city's racetracks; he had heard it used by black stable-hands in New Orleans in 1921. Black jazz musicians in the 1930s used the name to refer to the city (and especially Harlem) as the jazz capital of the world. The nickname was largely unknown by the 1950s. It was revived in 1971 as part of a publicity campaign by Charles Gillett, president of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau. - from Source.
Continuing my recent interest in British books-turned-T.V. series (see Magpie Murders), All Creatures Great and Small (2020) is based on a series of books from author Alf Wight (written under the pen name of James Herriot) about his experiences as a veterinary surgeon in the Yorkshire Dales. The series follows young Herriot in his first employment under the eccentric vet Siegfried Farnon. Think Downton Abbey but more animals and farms and less aristocracy.
Check out this beautiful underground library which features 3,000 books in a naturally lit, wood and concrete structure buried beneath a hill. This looks like just the place to find a quiet nook and spend countless hours reading.
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That's all for this week!
As always, thanks for reading and have a great weekend.