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Fluffy Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 04/24/2015 13:09:09

This week we lost a woman who became an iconic image for women through the ages.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/RosieTheRiveter.jpg


Rosie the Riveter (aka Mary Doyle Keefe)

http://www.norman-rockwell-france.com/images/m/mar/Mary-Doyle-Keefe-Rosie-the-Riveter.jpg


Model for Rosie the Riveter dies at 92
As a 19-year-old telephone operator, Keefe posed for the famous painting that would become the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943.

Although she was petite, Keefe was transformed into the iconic -- and burly -- embodiment of the character by Rockwell.

"Other than the red hair and my face, Norman Rockwell embellished Rosie's body," Keefe said in a 2012 interview with the Hartford Courant. "I was much smaller than that and did not know how he was going to make me look like that until I saw the finished painting."


VT Woman who posed as Rosie the Riveter dies

In an interview last year, Keefe said she had no idea the impact the painting would have.

"No I didn't expect anything like this, but as the years went on, I realized that the painting was famous," Keefe said.


I'd like to thank her and all the other Rosie's out there who were such an inspiration and who helped pave a path for woman.
 

13 comments (Latest Comment: 04/24/2015 19:57:01 by TriSec)
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Comment by wickedpam on 04/24/2015 13:09:44
Morning

Comment by Mondobubba on 04/24/2015 13:37:18
Hola.

Comment by Scoopster on 04/24/2015 13:38:16
Mornin' all!

Comment by wickedpam on 04/24/2015 13:56:56
We seem to be having an intermittent problem with the blog this morning - hmmm...

Comment by BobR on 04/24/2015 14:36:17
Morning... we're in the great frigid northern lands.

Comment by trojanrabbit on 04/24/2015 14:39:31
Quote by BobR:
Morning... we're in the great frigid northern lands.


There was frickin' SNOW on my car this morning.

I mean, a bunch of flakes on the windshield as the rest likely melted but still, OMFG!!!! SNOW!!!

Comment by Scoopster on 04/24/2015 14:40:00
Quote by BobR:
Morning... we're in the great frigid northern lands.

LALALALA IT'S 70 AND SUNNY BEACH WEATHER LALALALA

Comment by wickedpam on 04/24/2015 14:42:03
Quote by BobR:
Morning... we're in the great frigid northern lands.



Tell me about it - had to turn the heat back on

Comment by Mondobubba on 04/24/2015 15:06:50
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by BobR:
Morning... we're in the great frigid northern lands.

LALALALA IT'S 70 AND SUNNY BEACH WEATHER LALALALA



75 Degrees, partly cloudy.

Comment by TriSec on 04/24/2015 15:48:06
I drove past the snow farm at Fitton Field this morning. (Holy Cross, Worcester)

Still about a foot high in the shady spots.

Comment by trojanrabbit on 04/24/2015 17:14:07
Started walking during lunch this week. I've worked myself up to about 2 1/4 miles.

I swear the wind chills must be in the 30's or lower, my ears are STILL hurting a half hour later after finishing the walk and coming inside.

Of course in a month I'll be bitching that it's in the 90's.......

Comment by Scoopster on 04/24/2015 18:58:37
Well now. My day (and weekend) is looking a LOT warmer.

Comment by TriSec on 04/24/2015 19:57:01
Cut me.