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DAR highlights important women in N.C. history

State DAR officers Rosie Craig, Amanda Ellinger and Cricket Cricket.

By Lightning Reports, Published: March 24, 2024

The Joseph McDowell Chapter Daughter of the American Revolution hosted NCDAR state officers for the Doll Project Celebration at Grace Lutheran Church. Present were Cricket Crigler, State Vice Regent; RoseMarie Crag, State Treasurer; and Amanda Ellinger, NC State Chair, National Doll Project.

Appropriately for Women’s History Month, the celebration highlighted historic North Carolina women. Reenactors interpreted the contributions of colonial figures Penelope Barker and Betsy Dowdy, Anne Penland, a World War I nurse, and Kate Adams, a World War II pilot. A timeline of women from Virginia Dare (1587) to Christina Koch (2019) was provided. Doll outfits were sewn by North Carolina chapters representing historic North Carolina women.

Doll Project contributions go to the Helen Pouch Memorial Fund, which benefits DAR-supported schools and Junior Membership Classroom Grants. Since 1938, the fund has financed projects chosen by the Junior Membership Committee. Over the years, the Committee has supported Kate Duncan Smith School, Berry College, Crossnore School and Children’s Home, Hillside School and Hindman Settlement School, the American Indian Schools, Bacone College and Chemawa Indian School.  

The North Carolina doll will be raffled off in June at the NSDAR Continental Congress in Washington, D.C.