{"id":2725,"date":"2024-11-18T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2024-11-18T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:32:32","slug":"largely-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2725","title":{"rendered":"Largely Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My husband and I found a few open days and drove up to the Shenandoah Valley. We poked through small towns, chasing LOVE signs, history and apple cider along with some peace and quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fishers_Hill,_Virginia\">Fishers Hill,<\/a> just south of Strasburg, Virginia, we happened upon a new historical marker commemorating The Creative Women of Fishers Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bertha_von_Hillern\">Bertha Von Hillern<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_a%27Becket\">Maria J. C. a\u2019 Becke<\/a>t, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Howard_Wight\">Emma Howard Wright<\/a>. The Wikipedia entry for Wight mentions the Fishers Hill studio she shared with Von Hillern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2quQG7a\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54147617157_fd31646e55.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Largerly Forgotten\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Northern Virginia Daily published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvdaily.com\/nvdaily\/the-three-women-of-fishers-hill\/article_b4836f4f-b1e1-5705-9968-bc8464f2ec8e.html\">extensive story about the women and the attempts of local historians to tells their stories<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the comment in the first line&#8211;largely forgotten&#8211;that struck me as the story of so many women, and some men as well, even those who achieve some level of prominence in their life times. Times and preferences and fashion change and without champions to keep them alive, artists fade into the timeline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These kinds of local history projects are perfect for involving young people. There have been <a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnews.org\/2023\/10\/30\/cumberland-middle-school-students-get-a-historical-marker-approved\/\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/va-students-historical-markers-black-history-icons\">stories<\/a> of students submitting historical markers for approval. Virginia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhr.virginia.gov\/programs\/highway-markers\/\">historical marker program<\/a> is the oldest in the country and the site includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/vcris.dhr.virginia.gov\/HistoricMarkers\/\">searchable database<\/a>.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmdb.org\/\">Historical Marker Database<\/a> is more extensive as its includes all sorts of markers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I found a few open days and drove up to the Shenandoah Valley. We poked through small towns, chasing LOVE signs, history and apple cider along with some peace and quiet. In Fishers Hill, just south of Strasburg, Virginia, we happened upon a new historical marker commemorating The Creative Women of Fishers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Largely Forgotten<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,64],"tags":[724,723,722,725,223],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","tag-bertha-von-hillern","tag-emma-wight","tag-historical-markers","tag-maria-j-c-abeckett","tag-women"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-HX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}