Messages in Bottles Featuring Women – International Women’s Day 2018

07 Wednesday Mar 2018

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Messages in Bottles Featuring Women – International Women’s Day 2018

I was listening to Salt Lake City’s best radio station, the aural treasure known as KRCL, when I learned of their upcoming celebration of International Women’s Day 2018 (March 8th)–an event called Amplifying Women’s Voices–and it dawned on me that I should devote a post to some of the amazing messages in bottles featuring women. Why? Because some of the best message in a bottle stories of all time feature women. These ladies are awesome, and you should know about them, and that’s all there is to it! Continue reading →

What a Message in a Bottle Taught Me About Women’s Fight for the Right to Fight

08 Wednesday Mar 2017

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One of the most remarkable messages in a bottle I’ve ever heard of comes from the archives of the The Warnambool Standard in March 1916. It opened a window for me into a particular element of women’s history I knew very little of before–particularly the history of women in the military.

It was written by Private R. Lock of the Australian military, who wrote in the message of a “girl” who had recently been discovered aboard his ship. She had been “masquerading” as a man in order to fight for her country.