"This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who "mothered" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. S ..."
Golden Days Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women by BridgetPieschel Published 2009 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-959-6, ISBN: 1-60473-959-2
"All we wanted to do was just lighten up the den—paint the den. And you know
how that goes. We had to start by doing something to the foundation. We couldn't
do anything with the foundation without voiding our termite contract. So then we
had to have all these traps put around the house. It took, oh, six or eight months.
Then, in the meantime, we went on an Elderhostel 35 trip, “Music on the
Mississippi.” Carolyn Vance Smith,36 a W ..."
Golden Days Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women by Bridget Smith Pieschel Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-097-5, ISBN: 1-60473-097-8
"Golden Days includes twenty oral histories of women who graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women) at least fifty years ago. From Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope's (1926) description of a teaching career beginning just before the 1927 Delta flood to Juanita McCown Hight's (1934) account of campus conversations with violinist Jascha Heifetz and writer/adventurer Richard Halliburton, these stories ..."
"This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who "mothered" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. S ..."
Loyal daughters One hundred years at Mississippi University for Women, 1884-1984 by Bridget Smith Pieschel, Stephen Robert Pieschel Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1984 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-243-1, ISBN: 0-87805-243-7