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a 10th term. (Mayor Davis served as mayor for 20 years during that span, taking off one two-year term to have her third child and was “otherwise preoccupied with family matters” during those years, the Times reported. “That’s hard to believe,” she said Tuesday.)
“It’s hard to believe that this would have created such a sensation,” the former mayor said this week. “You know this was (considered) the forefront of what would later become the woman’s movement.”
But while the press played the story to its saturation point, not everyone was thrilled by the municipal gender change. After all, this was still a rural county in 1950.
Some time following the election, a sign was nailed just outside the town limits welcoming visitors to “She-Town.” The June 15 issue of the Rappahannock News which announced the election result, carried comments from a Dr. Snead, who was no less amused by the prospects of an all-woman council.
“Why the change?,” he was
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