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who altered American culture. One is the Lynn, Massachusetts, house in which Mary Baker Eddy lived while writing the that launched Christian Science. Eddy, waylaid all her life by setbacks and ailments, established a church that emphasized self-empowering faith. Also during her 1875-82 residence there, Eddy established a college and attracted disciples. The second landmark, in northeast Arizona, is Klagetoh Chapter House in District 17 of the Navajo Nation, where in 1951 Annie Wauneka was the first woman elected to the Navajo Tribal Council. Wauneka, the daughter of a powerful rancher and tribal leader, was 8 when she survived the 1918 flu pandemic. That experience led her to push all her life for better health services and education, especially regarding tuberculosis. She composed a Navajo-language medical dictionary. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy awarded Wauneka the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Both locations will be part of the National Womenâs Trail, a nationwide network of sites established to honor the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Details: .
