The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West By David McCullough Simon & Schuster May 2019 352 pages
David McCullough has written another superb history, The Pioneers. Admittedly, it is not in the same class as his two magisterial biographies, Truman and John Adams, which would be difficult to match. But it is a wonderful recounting of a story largely unknown to most Americans – the settling of the Northwest Territory.
A strip club manager in western Massachusetts who wanted to bring in queer and transgender strippers quit after the owners refused to go along with the plan.
Bella Vendetta, who had managed the club under a previous owner before it was sold in August 2019, "said she decided to return … because new ownership had agreed to support her vision of creating a more diverse strip club," according to The Valley Advocate, which has an office in Northampton.
