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Rona G. Finkelstein (1927-2014) was an educator, author, and active community participant. She taught philosophy at Delaware State College and acted as the executive director of Delaware Humanities. In 2002, she published the book Where We Came…

Rosa Keil (1890-1980) was an Austrian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. at the age of 3, a homemaker, and an author of pose and poems. She wrote her 1952 novel, “A Woman Called Chaye”, while raising nine children. Keil was heavily involved in her…

Dora Markowitz was a Polish immigrant who moved to the U.S. in her late teens. Though she originally worked as a milliner in New York City, she became a homemaker and a farmer after she and her husband purchased farmland in Kent County, Delaware.…