The real-life Rosie the Riveter who lived in Dover and worked the lines in New Jersey’s factories are among those who will be honored in a Zoom lecture on Jan. 27 by Patty Chappine and sponsored by the Warren County Library.

The women who took over what had been “men’s work” at Picatinny Arsenal and Hercules Powder Company and other industries in the state were joined in the war effort by others who sold war bonds, planted victory gardens, and conserved materials and foodstuffs. Thousands more served as nurses and in branches of the armed forces like the Women’s Army Corps and the U.S. Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. African American women fought a double war: one against the nation’s enemies and another against discrimination.

Chappine is an adjunct professor at Stockton University where she teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies undergraduate programs. She also teaches in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies graduate program at Gratz College in Melrose Park, Pa., and at Atlantic Cape Community College in Hamilton. She earned a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Stockton University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Culture from Drew University.

To register for this adult program, contact Laura at (908) 362-8335 or laurag@warrenlib.org.

Photo of the stone is the grave of Dover’s own “Rosie the Riveter,” Ruth Little, and her husband, Leroy, in the Orchard Street Cemetery in Dover; and the National Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden is in Morris Plains. Photos by Jane Primerano