The “Owls” were an African American women’s
The “Owls” were an African American women’s softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first Washington State women’s Softball Championship in 1938, and then were renamed the “Brown Bombers” and won the state Championship again in 1939.
My aunt, who escaped from a convent as a teen,
My grandfather was set up in an arranged marriage to a woman he didn't love. He had two children with her. Then he was stationed in Britain between the world wars and met my grandmother there, who was a factory worker at the time. He divorced his wife and essentially abandoned his children from that …
Kate Pierson & Fred Schneider (B-52’s) in the
Kate Pierson & Fred Schneider (B-52’s) in the late 70s
