Must-read books for Women’s History Month, from PA Humanities staff & board
It’s Women’s History Month, and to help celebrate we asked our staff and board members to share some of their book recommendations. Their selections include everything from classic literature to post-apocalyptic fiction, poetry to biography and more. Why not check one out the next time you’re at your local library?
Getting to know resident Chester historian Twyla Simpkins, better known as Ms. T
By Karen Price Twyla Simpkins remembers being a little girl and mashing up crayon shavings so that she could color the people in pictures to look like her. From that very early desire to see herself in the world grew an interest in finding Black history memorabilia and artifacts, and a passion for collecting and…