Story of Writing July 28, 2025

Lavinia Ream becomes the first woman to be commissioned to sculpt a statue for the Capital Rotunda, the 14th Amendment is ratified, US Pres. Herbert Hoover orders then-currently serving troops to roust WWI veterans from Washington, D.C., and the Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to lay down their weapons. This episode includes a reading from Wallace Stegner's "Crossing to Safety."