{"id":3945,"date":"2018-11-13T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2021-10-16T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T20:14:01","slug":"for-rest-frannie-blair-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/for-rest-frannie-blair-works\/","title":{"rendered":"For Rest, Frannie Blair Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi, all,<\/div>\n<div>I mid-October I took a break from campaigning for local candidates and flew to North Carolina to join a dozen ex-Habitat volunteers for their annual non-build.&nbsp; We were from the states of Washington, California, Illinois, and North Carolina; our organizer had found a delightful group featured on Youtube, the Women Roofers of Rutherfordton.&nbsp; A couple of the younger ones actually did tear off, repair, and replace two roofs during our stay; the rest of us stayed on the ground and painted the exterior woodwork of the local Habitat&#8217;s new (to them &#8211; it used to be a car repair shop) headquarters, removed from one home and rebuilt at another a handicap ramp, removed and replaced rotten siding, built a sturdy stoop (where a handicap ramp may go next year), rebuilt a set of rotted stairs to a deck, painted the inside of one finished Habitat house, and painted part of another (interior).&nbsp; The weather was mostly lovely, although rivers were brown from the aftermath of Hurricane Florence; we had a good time with the amazing Women Roofers, most of whom have regular jobs and generally roof on weekends only.&nbsp; To see pictures, go to the group&#8217;s website:&nbsp; the Sisterhood of the Traveling Stilettos.&nbsp; Stiletto makes titanium hammers and other tools, and despite the &#8220;sisterhood&#8221; bit, we have some men among us.&nbsp; The group is much larger than twelve, so different people go any given year.&nbsp; I went with them to North Dakota three years ago.&nbsp; My local candidates won their elections, and I&#8217;m already gearing up for the next round because it matters SO MUCH!<\/div>\n<div>Frannie Blair<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, all, I mid-October I took a break from campaigning for local candidates and flew to North Carolina to join a dozen ex-Habitat volunteers for their annual non-build.&nbsp; We were from the states of Washington, California, Illinois, and North Carolina; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/for-rest-frannie-blair-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}