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		C13: Women's Editors Park Square Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904 in an office at 5 Park Square. Her goal was to publish a journal devoted to "the development of Afro-American art and literature." She included a series of articles, Famous Women of the Negro Race, and reported the news of the rejection of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin's New Era Club for membership in the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1902 (see B13). Other publications edited by women with offices in Park Square include Our Bodies Ourselves, published by the Boston Women's Health Collective in 1970, and Equal Times, a newspaper for working women published in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The Collective is located now in Somerville. "Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs ... No one will do this for us; we must ourselves develop the men and women who will faithfully portray the inmost thoughts and feelings of the Negro with all the fire and romance which lie dormant in our history, and, as yet, unrecognized by writers of the Anglo-Saxon race." -- Pauline E. Hopkins, from her 1900 book Contending Forces, A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
		C14: Boston Cooking School 174 Tremont Street As principal of the Boston Cooking School, the earliest women's school for professional cooking in Boston, Fannie Farmer published her famous cookbook from this site in 1896. Her cookbook revolutionized cooking by using scientific measurements in its recipes. Within 50 years, nearly three million copies were printed, making Fannie Farmer's name a household word. She hoped her book would awaken an interest … which will lead to deeper thought and broader study of what to eat.