Season 2: Episode #32: Why did women explore the White Mountains?
With Dr. Marcia Schmidt Blaine

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke, who live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, learn from Dr. Marcia Schmidt Blaine about the amazing women who pioneered, explored, and lived in these mountains. Blaine is a wealth of knowledge and brings to life these incredible women who challenged gender norms and pushed boundaries. Join us!

Transcript

Marcia Schmidt Blaine is a professor emeritus at Plymouth State University. Blaine’s research focuses on two aspects of history: the development of American identity in the eighteenth century and the America’s historical relationship with landscape, specifically the White Mountains.  Along the northern edge of English settlement, families found themselves involved in late colonial international, intercultural, political, and imperial disputes. Individuals at the front line of contact successfully negotiated cultural and political boundaries in the tense times leading to the final North American imperial confrontation. Blaine led the campus’ struggling museum to its current reorganized and flourishing state.