{"id":1029,"date":"2013-04-29T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2013-04-29T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:19:42","slug":"matthew-prigge-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Prigge Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee doctoral student Matthew J. Prigge will present a lecture about the incredible tale of Cora Anderson, a Milwaukee woman who passed for nearly a decade as a man named Ralph Kerwineo. As Kerwineo, Anderson lived openly with her partner, Mamie White, and was able to obtain \u201cmen\u2019s work\u201d and make a steady living for herself and White. In 1914, \u2018Kerwineo\u2019 left White and legally married a younger woman, driving White to expose her former partner to the police. The arrest of Anderson\/Kerwineo set off a tumultuous week in which Anderson told her fantastic tale and the nation gaped in wonder at the \u201cGirl-Man of Milwaukee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will take place <strong>7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Student Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Wisconsin Room, Second Floor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by the UWM Department of History and the Milwaukee Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinhistory.org\/wmh\/currentissue.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cora.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cora\" width=\"523\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cora.jpg 523w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cora-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee doctoral student Matthew J. Prigge will present a lecture about the incredible tale of Cora Anderson, a Milwaukee woman who passed for nearly a decade as a man named Ralph Kerwineo. As Kerwineo, Anderson lived openly with her partner, Mamie White, and was able to obtain \u201cmen\u2019s work\u201d and make a steady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}