Women’s History

PBS airs “Fly With Me” documentary on Feb. 20, featuring interviews with Author Elaine Rock and flight attendants Dusty Roads and Jean Montague

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I am thrilled to announce that I will be featured as an expert on Barbara “Dusty” Roads and early flight attendant history in the PBS American Experience documentary “Fly With Me,” airing on Feb. 20 at 9 p.m. on your local PBS station. It will also stream on PBS.org. Sara Colt Productions interviewed me last June. Dusty and Jean were also interviewed about their experiences as stewardesses and flight attendants. As a union leader, negotiator, and one of the first female lobbyists to Congress, Dusty’s attempts to overturn the airline rules firing them at age thirty-two, and banning marriage would […]

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Update On My Book About Dusty Roads

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After finishing the draft of my book, “Dusty Roads: How the Women’s Movement Took Flight” early in November, I am now in the revision phase and am happy to announce a publication date of Aug. 26, 2024 (Women’s Equality Day celebrating Women’s Suffrage)—when it will be available for purchase online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and in bookstores and through this website. It will also be available for preorder, but I don’t have a date yet for that. I’ll post again and let you know. This has been a labor of love and research for 10 years, and I

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