WalkingWithGrace By Nancy Taubman Nancy Taubman is a midwesterner who moved to Dutchess County in 1984. For the past seventeen years, until her retirement in 2001, she worked as public relations coordinator at the YWCA in Poughkeepsie. She.first became interested in Dr. Grace Kimball while working on a calendar for the 110th anniversary of the YWCA in 1991.
Dr. Grace N.Kimball
On the southsideof Poughkeepsiethereis a clusterof streetswith pleasant homes and trees, tall and straight as soldiers. They mind their sentrydutieswell for they are keepersof the nearlyforgottenstoriesof the womenfor whomthese streetswere named:Bancroft,Seaman,St. Anne, Yates,Gaskin,and Kimball.At the tum of the lastcenturywomenworked in factories,officesandstoresand,mostimportantly,at home. Theytended 40
