The Roadhouse Report – April 2026

Bunches of THG links

I have been interviewed about The Harvey Girl. I am being interviewed about The Harvey Girl. I will be interviewed about The Harvey Girl. I shall have been about to be interviewed about The Harvey Girl.
 

• "I have no nervous left."

• "Tough, focused, protean."

• "For many of [the Harvey Girls] this was their first time away from home, their first time earning their own money, and their first taste of independence. Heady stuff for that half of the American population that was still 31 years away from getting the vote."
• "And then she sent me a photo of her holding Blindfold Game in front of an iceberg in Antarctica where she and Thom were on a cruise."
• "I first heard about the Harvey Girls when I read Stephen Fried’s Appetite for America, but the lightning bolt truly hit when I learned that Alan Pinkerton appreciated the value of female agents and started hiring them almost from the beginning."
• And me and the ‘maniacs at the Poisoned Pen on February 28th.
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