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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Louisville Collegiate School’

That Debutante Summer

January 26th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 3 Comments

Photo of high school girls in 1954

My rebellion, uncomfortable as it was—for my classmates were my closest friends—also signaled my leaving the South, going to college, settling in the Northeast and marrying a man my mother’s friends identified, with horror, as a Yankee…

In Kentucky Louisville Collegiate School Frontier Nursing University Favorites of 2023

Teaching Girls

February 15th, 2019 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Kentucky Leave a Comment

Eleanor Roosevelt, school portrait

A small school in a southern city where girls were usually curbed physically or mentally, the Louisville Collegiate School for Girls and its teachers did not deal in… limits. My years there started me on my way as a writer.

In Women, Kentucky Louisville Louisville Collegiate School

The Times They Are a-Changing

May 24th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 2 Comments

The Times They Are a-Changin'

Sometimes, not too many times, I find myself complaining that things have stopped moving forward and even begun moving backwards after the heady transformations of customs and attitudes that changed my life in the 1970’s.

In Kentucky Louisville Kentucky Louisville Collegiate School

 

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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