. One of the things I like best about Women’s History Month is the highlighting of famous and not-so-famous women who changed the course of history in subtle and not to so subtle ways. Last year on a college visit to UCSD, we ran across this statue on their campus and it brought questions from owlets which brought further discussion.
Read moreYesterday, the Weston Owl sat down for a zoom chat with Weston resident Janet Kraus, co-founder and CEO of Peach, a fashion brand focused on helping women thrive. Kraus’ dry sense of humor and infectious energy had the conversation moving from the joys of entrepreneurship to parental mentors to regional shopping preferences, and the challenges of Covid in a relationship
Read moreWeston has benefitted from many strong and interesting women over its long-ish history–the women of Exmoor Farm–one of whom donated 41 acres that became Jericho Forest in 1948, the Jones sisters who kept up the Josiah Smith Tavern, and a schoolteacher on Ripley Lane who snowshoed to the bus stop. Certainly there were many more whose histories were not written,
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