1. Interview people in your community with unusual professions or who have overcome obstacles like Charley and create an oral history documenting their achievements and noting their significance to local history.

2. Research who the real Charlotte Parkhurst was. Compare her with the activities of two women, American or other nationalities, who were suffragists or political leaders during the nineteenth century. Find out how Susan B. Anthony successfully voted in the 1872 presidential election and the court case that resulted from her actions. Where were American women able to vote in local and state elections prior to passage of the 19th Amendment?

3. On a map, trace Charlotte's travels from the east to the west during her life (from the orphanage to the stables or from those stables through the Panama Canal to Sacramento). Select five places she might have stopped and learn more...