Women's Work: Walking Tour With History Player Eva Valesh July 30, 2011

Take a walking tour led by costumed History Player Eva Valesh, whose undercover reporting for the Saint Paul Globe in 1888 and 1889 exposed the harsh working conditions of women in Minneapolis. Learn about factory life for girls at the North Star Woolen Mill, still standing at the west end of the Stone Arch Bridge. Valesh, a labor writer and orator, known by her pen name Eva Gay, served as labor editor for the Saint Paul Globe, a skilled orator for the National Farmer's Alliance and labor editor for the Minneapolis Tribune. She went on to national acclaim, working for Samuel Gompers as assistant editor of the American Federationist.