The Gazette: Changing Lives One Issue at a Time
Rand Hall in 1998
“Without communication there is no community.” – Rand Hall
Year: 2022
Corky Culver and the Women’s Peace Walk, 1983-1984
The Women’s Peace Walk celebrates finally arriving in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Lynda Lou Simmons (facing the camera), Pam Smith, Rainbow Williams, Robin Ferguson (holding the Women’s Peace Walk banner), Sandy Cosgrave (looking up), Kate Gallagher (clapping), Gail Mayes, Dixie Biggs, Weed Roy (wearing “stop the bomb racket” poster), Jean Frances (making peace sign), Sandra Lambert, unidentified woman in a rainbow tam, and Sandy Malone.
Corky Culver joins the Gainesville Women’s Peace Walk, an act of courageous defiance, a 41-day journey down the east coast of Florida, from Gainesville to Key West.
Carolyn Mobley-Bowie: Spiritual Warrior-Singer
Reverend Elder Carolyn Mobley-Bowie
“Black people are my people, gay folk are my people, and church people are my people.”
Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke
Diana Rivers in the home she built at OLHA
Divorced and alone in 1972, Diana Rivers paddled her way from New York to Arkansas with an unbridled fever that turned the local landscape upside down.