INTERVIEWS AND NARRATIVES
ANITA
WATSON
Anita Watson has lived in Carson City for 29 years. While
her third son was in preschool, Anita returned to college
to finish her Bachelor's Degree. She eventually earned a Ph.D.
in history, Nevada and the West. Anita teaches part-time and
finds projects that interest her and keep her busy.
Around
1996, Anita was approached to work on a chapter written by
Jean Ford and Linda White for Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community. Ford invited
Anita to a Nevada Women's History Project meeting where Anita
networked with other women. Again Anita was approached, this
time on behalf of the Nevada Humanities Committee, to remake
a traveling exhibit that Jean created into a book about women
in public life in Nevada. The book, Into Their Own: Nevada women emerging into public life,
was published after Jean Ford's death, but Anita finished
the manuscript in time for Ford to read it.
Interview
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Anita refers to Ford as a facilitator, significant for
her ability to bring women together to network with each
other. (Reno, Nevada; August 15, 2001)
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Anita talks about Ford's personal understanding of the
women's movement, coming from a typical 1950s marriage,
then divorce, and her later accomplishments. Ford was
not an academic and this was "particularly useful to her
students". (Reno, Nevada; August 15, 2001)
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