Full Description
100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go is a lively and highly subjective collection of places that will educate, illuminate, entertain, challenge, or otherwise appeal to women of all kinds. From historic (such as the Women's Rights National Historic Park) to kitschy (SPAM museum), these places and activities provide a wide-angle view of all that makes America, America.
Contents
100 Places in the USA Every Woman Should Go
By Sophia Dembling
Women Make History
• Salem, Massachusets
• Ellis Island, New York City
• Galveston Island, Texas
• Angel Island, California
• Upstate New York
• Statue of Liberty, New York City
• Esther Hobart Morris statue, Cheyenne, Wyoming
• Nashville site (Wyoming statue)
• Statue of Liberty, New York City
Tough Cookies
• Harriet Tubman, Maryland, Delaware, New York State
• Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, Alabama
• National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis
• Women in Flight, Atchison, Kansas; Oklahoma City
• Annie Oakley (Cody, WY, Fort Worth, Ohio);
• Nellie Bly, Newseum, Washington DC
• Lizzie Borden Bed &Breakfast Fall River, Mass.
• Brothel Museum, Skagway, Alaska
• Texas (Hallie Stillwell, Cowgirl Hall of Fame, others)
• Georgia
Artists and Muses
• Orchard House Louisa May Alcott, Concord, Massachusetts
• Massachusetts (Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum)
• Zora Neale Hurston Museum, Eatonville, Florida
• Georgia O'Keefe's Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
• Little House on the Prairie, De Smet, South Dakota
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
• Willa Cather State Historic Site, Red Cloud, Nebraska
• Nina Simone's hometown, Tryon, North Carolina
• Christina's World house, Cushing, Maine
• Dorothy Parker's stomping ground, New York City
• Movie sites (Various)
• Native American artists?
• Stax Museum and Motown Museum, Memphis, Detroit
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
Girls Will Be Girls
• Weeki Wachee Springs State Park,
• Tea with the girls Plaza Hotel, other cities?
• Do lunch (Four Seasons NY, other citites?)
• Plantation stays
• Met costume collection, New York City
• LA Fashion Institute
• First Ladies Exhibit, First Ladies Library, Washington D.C.
• Mall of America, Bloomington, Minn.
• Tiffany's, New York City
• Garden Club towns (Jefferson, Texas, others?)
• Neiman Marcus, Dallas, Texas
• Gardens
• Shoe tree
• Antiquing - Round Top and others
• World's Longest Yard Sale
• Rock star pilgrimages
Retreat, tranquility and spiritual pursuits
• Lily Dale, New York
• Best Friends Animal Sanctuary Kanab, Utah
• Miraval, Tucson, Arizona
• Monument Valley, Four Corners
• Northern California coast
• Kripalu, Stockbridge, Mass.
• Goddess sites
• Maine coast
• Cape Cod
• The Cloisters
• Hot springs
• Labyrinths
• Monroe Institute
• Cat Yronwode's hoodoo shop and the world's smallest church
Adventure
• Grand Canyon Arizona
• Becoming an Outdoorswoman
• Iditarod, Alaska
• National Parks - Yellowstone, Yosemite
• Skiing Lake Tahoe, Jackson Hole
• Rafting the Gauley West Virginia
• Surfing
• Boating
Just Go
• Santa Fe
• Washington DC
• New Orleans
• New York City
• Las Vegas
• Savannah
• Disney World
• Drive cross-country
Home & Hearth
• Cooking schools
• Bad Food museums
• Canyon de Chelle, Arizona
• Newport, Rhode Island
• Pike's Place Market, Seattle, Washington
• Agritourism
• Tenement Museum, New York City
• Hearst Castle, California
• Architecture tours (Phoenix, Chicago, Savannah)
