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Council on Aging Remember The Ladies: Women of the American Revolution - Wellesley COA
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"Even older than this great nation is the flawed adage that behind every great man is a great woman, but if the origin story of the United States proves anything, it’s that our success has come not from great women behind men, but beside them. Join speak

"Even older than this great nation is the flawed adage that behind every great man is a great woman, but if the origin story of the United States proves anything, it’s that our success has come not from great women behind men, but beside them. Join speaker Johnny Kinsman as he highlights the contributions and stories of women in the American colonies such as Mercy Otis Warren, who shaped public opinion through plays and pamphlets and a teenaged Sybil Ludington, who braved a tempest and rode twice as far as Paul Revere to muster her father’s militia to stand against the King’s Army."