Chico Women's Club

09/15/2024

Our 111th birthday party today

09/15/2024

Art: Julia Arnt

09/15/2024

Art: mAlsArt

09/14/2024

The Chico Women's Club is celebrating 111 years tomorrow, September 15, from 1-3. If you are curious to find out who we are, you are invited! Bring a friend!

592 East 3rd St. at Pine.

09/13/2024

Artist: Marika Campeti

09/11/2024

09/09/2024

80-year-old woman completes annual 600-mile trek with her pony and dog
Every year, Jane Dotchin packs her saddlebags and sets off on an epic journey from her home near Hexham, Northumberland, up to Inverness, Scotland.

Since 1972, Jane, 80, has been heading on this annual trip on her 13-year-old horse, Diamond, travelling 600 miles on horseback.

This time, she began her journey on August 31, with her disabled Jack Russell, Dinky, for company as she covers between 15 and 20 miles a day.

The trip sees Jane carrying everything she needs on her back, including her tent, food, and a few key belongings.

After that initial journey, she caught the taste for the open road, and travelled to visit friends near Fort Augustus, near Loch Ness, Highlands, every autumn since.

Her epic journey usually takes around seven weeks, depending on weather, and Jane uses it as a chance to pop in and say hi to people she has met over the years.

She sustains herself on porridge, oatcakes, and cheese, and doesn’t need much electricity as she has an old mobile phone with a battery that lasts six weeks.

Join our group. It's amazing - National Geographic Nature

09/09/2024

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe
White Rose, 1927
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe

09/06/2024

Never underestimate the power you have
to take your life in a new direction.

Germany Kent,
American broadcaster

08/30/2024

Art: Julia Arndt

08/04/2024

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In the late era, fathers typically supported their daughters by helping them find suitable husbands, providing dowries, and sometimes arranging for their education to help them manage large households. However, Eliza Pinckney’s father took a different approach. He entrusted his 16-year-old daughter with the responsibility of managing his struggling rice plantations in South Carolina while he returned to the West Indies. Her dowry consisted of access to her father’s business connections, a collection of seeds sent from , and a group of enslaved people whose labor was crucial to her business's success.

These assets proved to be a fortuitous combination for a young woman like Pinckney, whose favorite subject at her British finishing school had been botany, rather than the more traditional French or needlework. Embracing her interest in botany, Pinckney conducted experiments with various crops, including alfalfa, ginger, h**p, and flax. Her most significant achievement came when she successfully developed a new strain of indigo. This innovation met the high demand from English textile mills, which were constantly seeking new dyes.

Within a few years, indigo became South Carolina’s second-largest cash crop, transforming the colony's economy and securing Pinckney's financial independence. Her newfound wealth and success allowed her to reject suitors chosen by her father and instead select her own husband. Eliza Pinckney's influence and prominence were such that George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral in 1793.

08/04/2024

Support Fire-Affected Community Members at the Chico Women's Club
Update:

Last Saturday, July 27th, 4 Chico Women's Club members assisted in TomToms (Island Style Hawaiian BarBeQue) efforts to distribute free meals to Park Fire evacuees. It was an honor to be witness to the spirit of community shared within the Cohasset folks. Over 180 meals were distributed as well as over 25 cases of water, toiletries, clothing, and many more donated items.
We are assisting again tomorrow, Sunday August 4th! This time we are offering the Chico Women’s Club as a space for the community to gather and rest. Donations will be accepted starting at 10 AM, and free meals will be distributed from 11 AM to 3 PM.
Donation Items Requested:

Diapers (Various Sizes)

Baby Wipes

Socks (Various Sizes)

Bath Soap

Cases of Water

Non-Perishable Foods

Pillows (New Only)

Various Drinks

If you would like to volunteer, the entire effort will run from 9 AM to 4 PM, including setup and cleanup. If you are available, please contact Lucía at (951) 823-9806.

08/02/2024

Good on you!!!

A Chicago teenager named Dorothy Jean Tillman has just become the youngest person in the world to obtain a PHD doctorate at the age of 17. - She took her first university course at the age of 10. - At the age of 14, Dorothy Jean Tillman had obtained an associate diploma, a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. Respect ✊ This is the kind of image that should be made viral on social networks 🙌

07/27/2024

07/26/2024

The face of the Statue of Liberty. Isabella Boyer's life is like an exciting novel. She was born in Paris, the daughter of an African pastry chef and an English mother. Isabella had a special beauty and, at age 20, she married Isaac Singer, the sewing machine maker, who was 50 years old. After Singer's death, Isabella became the richest woman in the country. It is not surprising that she was chosen as the model for the Statue of Liberty, as she embodied the American dream. Widowed, Isabella traveled the world and married the Dutch violinist Victor Robstett, becoming a countess. He became a prominent figure in America and Europe, and met the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi at a world event. Bartholdi, impressed by her beauty and history, used her face as a model for the Statue of Liberty. Isabella married a third time and died in Paris in 1904 at age 62, but her face lives on in the iconic statue in New York, symbolizing freedom and American pride.
Credits to the rightful owner.

07/20/2024

You start dying slowly ;
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not listen to the sounds of life,
If you do not appreciate yourself.
You start dying slowly :
When you kill your self-esteem,
When you do not let others help you.
You start dying slowly ;
If you become a slave of your habits,
Walking everyday on the same paths…
If you do not change your routine,
If you do not wear different colours
Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.
You start dying slowly :
If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly :
If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain
If you do not go after a dream
If you do not allow yourself
At least once in your lifetime
To run away from sensible advice
Don't let yourself die slowly
Do not forget to be happy!
~ Pablo Neruda♡

07/19/2024

ARTwork of Li Lian Kolster..

07/19/2024

Driftwood sculpture by Debra Bernier

07/19/2024

Watercolor painting by Jeannie Vodden

07/13/2024

You can now secure your spot at our next Community Circle experience!

💗Receptivity Mid Season Merge🧡
The year is half over , let’s circle up and get into it .

💗Tues July 16

🧡 5:30 pm to 8 pm

💗Seasonal Snacks , zero proof sips and goodies

🧡Community , connection , ritual magick and Full Moon Prep.

💗Be an Earth Angel ! Paying at the higher end of the scale opens up a spot at our circle for someone who cannot pay the ticket price.

🧡Question? I love those . Give em to me!

💗Space is limited , please join! https://www.heatherleveroni.com/event-details/receptivity-mid-season-merge-community-circle?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY82PfmJLSY6dlbs7wwzvi61D5YObfxNZ8m2FwX-WC5BlamvcDm6YZwLK0_aem_6q6T_dssevgBpxntPuEuDg

07/06/2024

Amazing woman. Sharing again.
Biddy Bridget Mason (1815-1891) was born into slavery and given as a wedding gift to a Mormon couple in Mississippi named Robert and Rebecca Smith. In 1847 at age 32, Biddy Mason was forced to walk from Mississippi to Utah tending cattle behind her master’s 300-wagon caravan.

After four years in Salt Lake City, Smith took the group to a new Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California in search of gold. Biddy Mason soon discovered that the California State Constitution made slavery illegal, and that her master planned to move them all to Texas to avoid freeing them. With the help of some free blacks she had befriended, she and the other slaves attempted to run away to Los Angeles, but they were intercepted by Smith and brought back. However, when he tried to leave the state with his family and slaves, a local posse prevented his flight. Biddy had Robert Smith brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus. She, her daughters, and the ten other slaves were held in jail for their own safety until the judge heard the case and granted their freedom.

Now free, Mason and her three daughters moved to Los Angeles where they worked and saved enough money to buy a house at 331 Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. Biddy was employed as a nurse, midwife, and domestic servant. She was one of the first black women to own land in the city of Los Angeles. She had the gumption to use part of her land as a temporary resting place for horses and carriages, and people visiting town paid money in exchange for the space. This can be considered the first "parking lot" in Los Angeles!

Knowing what it meant to be oppressed and friendless, Biddy Mason immediately began a philanthropic career by opening her home to the poor, hungry, and homeless. Through hard work, saving, and investing carefully, she was able to purchase large amounts of real estate including a commercial building, which provided her with enough income to help build schools, hospitals, and churches. Her financial fortunes continued to increase until she accumulated a fortune of almost $300,000. In today's money, that would be $6M. Her most noted accomplishment is the founding of the First AME Church in California. [ ](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/biddymason?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG) [ ](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/blackhistory?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG)