riveter

She learned long ago, holding a riveter in her hand, that limits don’t always apply and anyone can forge a path forward.

But like the riveters who persisted, she won’t give up on honoring their stories.

She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s.

His father was a commercial artist, and his mother worked as a riveter during World War II to support the military effort.

As a young adult, he attended art classes at night and took whatever blue-collar work came his way, including dishwasher, warehouse stocker and aircraft riveter.