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Have you heard of Nellie Bly?
Or I should say, Elizabeth Cochrane- her real name.
Until my daughter received a puzzle/board game called
"Round the World with Nellie Bly" for Christmas,
(thanks Aunt Jaime), I hadn't.
She was an amazing woman.
Someone I wish I'd learned about earlier in life.
In 1889, when she was 25, she set sail from New York
in an attempt to travel around the globe in less than 80 days-
hoping to beat Jules Verne's character, Phileas Fogg.
She returned a national hero, after 73 days.
In a time when women were expected to be mother's and wives,
silent and obeying, darning socks while barefoot in the kitchen...
she was a journalist.
A fierce, hard-investigating journalist using the pseudonym Nellie Bly.
She faked insanity to get a story from inside an asylum.
Her story brought attention to the cruelty of life inside.
It also brought money
and a transformation of the rules regarding patients and their needs.
Whoa Nellie...is that where that saying comes from?
Nope, just looked it up- that Nellie is Roy Rogers horse.
If you'd like to read more about Nellie Bly,
PBS has a short recap of her astounding accomplishments and life.
It took Ella and I an hour and a half to finish the puzzle.
The board game, eh, I'm pretty sure it wasn't error checked.
When you land on a certain square it says, "Go back 5 spaces".
Okay, when you go back 5 spaces it says, "Go forward 5 spaces".
Sam and Grandma Carla were stuck there for a hilariously long time.
Oh well, the game is a bust.
Ella and I had fun putting the puzzle together.
And a big bonus was learning about such an incredible, fascinating, strong woman.
3 Sweet Comments:
Why haven't I heard of her before either? Someone needs to fix the history text books!
Whoa Nellie! haha :) I love it. The game looks great put together, but its a bummer that it was such a bust. I guess at least you got a really cool history lesson from it:) My co-worker and I did some research on Elizabeth when the game came to us at Pharmaca as an option to carry for the holidays. I loved her story! We didnt end up carrying it in our stores though.I guess thats good considering it wasnt that good of a game. Go back 5 spaces-Go forward 5 spaces :)
Tarra- I feel cheated, haha! I'm going to find some books about her and read up.
Jaime- great idea (puzzle/board game) and really interesting to learn about but HELLO- did they think we wouldn't play the game too? Hmmmm...maybe in her 73 days around the world she was stuck going back and forth a few places?
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