{"id":76464,"date":"2018-03-11T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-library-hosts-margaret-kirks-presentation-of-they-persisted\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T02:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T02:09:38","slug":"cortez-library-hosts-margaret-kirks-presentation-of-they-persisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-library-hosts-margaret-kirks-presentation-of-they-persisted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez library hosts Margaret Kirk\u2019s presentation of \u2018They Persisted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b629052e-083e-4393-9010-08086797675c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"295\" height=\"387\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Public Library celebrates Women\u2019s History Month by hosting local writer and scholar Margaret \u201cMidge\u201d Kirk, who will introduce her book \u201cThey Persisted,\u201d a tome that honors women who made a difference but didn\u2019t always make headlines.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is part of the library\u2019s Literary Fridays at the Library, a monthly event that showcases artists, authors, poets, storytellers and musicians from Southwest Colorado. It is at the library, 202 N. Park St., on March 16 at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk was born in Boston, attended the University of Rhode Island and graduated from Goddard College, where she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Women\u2019s Studies and Family Development and a master\u2019s in feminism and social justice. She did post-graduate work at the University of Santa Monica, where she studied applied psychology and counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30 years ago, Kirk helped found HerStory, a stage presentation that brings historical figures to life in stage presentations. She writes about women who helped shape this country, and from her studies came the material that formulated and formed, \u201cThey Persisted,\u201d the Cortez library said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey Persisted\u201d illustrates how stories stitch us securely into a multi-generational quilt of life and community. \u201cWhen we don\u2019t know our own history, then our power and dreams are immediately diminished,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>For information, call the Cortez Public Library  at 970-565-8117.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>illustrates impact of unsung women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,1443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76464"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}