Juliette Gordon Low was a classic Southern Belle when she married her handsome prince. But she learned the hard way that “happily ever after” is a harmful fantasy. We can do better for girls, she said: and we must. Rallying all the women around her, she founded Girl Scouts of America, empowering girls to build strength and character, and blaze new trails. Her global impact today is immeasurable.
Join us on location at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum in Savannah, Georgia for this inspiring story of how women change the world.
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- Check out the World Association of Girl Scouts & Girl Guides and Girl Scouts of America.
- Buy cookies from your local girl scouts!
- Get the delightful 1913 Girl Scout Handbook HERE, or read a free digital copy HERE.
- Join us on our next adventure! What’sHerName TOURS.
This episode was recorded by Marc Nelson on location at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum. Special thanks to Shannon Browning-Mullis, Kate Walker, and Kristin Mikels, and to the participants of our 2025 What’sHerName Savannah Tour who joined in the fun!
photo in the public domain
photo by Katie Nelson
photo by Katie Nelson
photo by Katie Nelson
photo by Katie Nelson
photo by Katie Nelson
photo by Marc Nelson
photo by Katie Nelson
photo by Marc Nelson
Shannon Browning-Mullis is the Executive Director for the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum and the National Historian for Girl Scouts of the USA. In her work at the Birthplace, she oversees the Archives and Collections for Girl Scouts and frames the narrative of Girl Scout history for the two million active members and 50 million alums. She worked for Telfair Museums for seven years, five of them as the Curator of History and Decorative Arts. In that position, she led the reinterpretation of the Owens-Thomas House to include the narratives of the enslaved people who lived and worked there and the renaming of the site to the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters. In 2020, she became the Executive Director at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum where she is consistently advocating for the expansion of women’s history in the Progressive Era, and is currently overseeing the move of the entire Girl Scout collection to Savannah. She lives in Savannah, Georgia with her husband and daughter.
Music featured in this episode included
Serenade Op. 6 by Josef Suk, Monumental Journey by Jesse Gallagher, William Tell Overture by Rossini, Blue Danube Waltz and Vienna Blood Waltz by Strauss, Serenade by Schubert, Remembering Her by Esther Abrami, and songs from 1956 Sing Together, Songs Girl Scouts Sing, and “Annie Laurie” by the 1924 National Quartet at the Library of Congress. Civil War sounds effects by Richard E Moore.
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