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Peer Review Notes

 * Add hyperlinks to topics in article (nouns)
 * divide career section into 3: early adulthood, mid adulthood, and late adulthood

Article First Draft
Introduction:

Alice Lee was born on May 27, 1853 in Westport, Essex County, New York, and died February 18, 1943 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, living approximately 89 years. As one of the most influential figures of the Social Movement, she had a same sex partner Katherine Teats (died in 1952). They were aspects of the social environment by hosting two U.S. presidents and their wives at their San Diego, California residence. Lee and Teats is, according to the San Diego Historical Resource Board, "one of the first documented domestic partnerships in San Diego", being indeed documented living together in various Census records; in the 1930 Census, Lee was Head of Household and Teats was Partner (and not Lodger while often used in such cases). Together they owned various real estate properties in San Diego, and both had an active civic and social life, and they were accepted as a couple.

Lee is viewed as a “Civic Leader in San Diego Union, the Ticonderoga Sentinel, the Boston Globe, and Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America”.

Lee died on February 18, 1943, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was spending the winter, and is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Westport.

Early Adulthood:

She continued her college education in Boston, where her family had spent winters while growing up. In 1902 Lee moved to San Diego to find a better climate because of her health.

Mid Adulthood:

In 1887, at age 34, Alice Lee purchased Marvin House (John Halstead’s original pub) in Westport, New York, transforming it into a posh hotel. Marvin house became the foundation for Westport Inn. It was open from June through October but was usually just  a summer getaway for tourists. She removed bordering properties so that she could add new attractions to this hotel. Westport Inn consisted of additional "cottages", a boathouse, gardens, tennis courts, croquet courts, a 6-hole Golf course, and the annex (located on the other side of Main Street). Alice Lee's brother, Thomas Lee, built the pipes to bring water from Mountain Spring down to the hotel which later became the town water supply. He also bottled the water to sell. Lee sold the property to Harry P. Smith in the early 1900s. The Westport Inn was demolished in 1966, 80 years after it was built.

Lee helped fund-raise for both the establishment of Westport Library (1888) and the Cutting Memorial Hall addition (1907). Cutting Memorial Hall became a social center for the people of Westport, New York. Westport Library remains in its original structure due to restrictions that granted it establishment in the first place.

Late Adulthood:

Lee was a supporter of the Progressive movement, and other than Theodore Roosevelt, she was friends with Florence Nightingale, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the family of Amos Bronson Alcott. When she first moved to San Diego she met the Marston family, already involved in the Progressive movement. Lee joined the movement through the Marston family and through Theodore Roosevelt’s role in the Progressive Party. She fought for social and political reform. She encouraged women to vote by campaigning for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. She represented the California Progressive Party at the National Convention held in Chicago after they noticed her contributions. By complaining for Roosevelt she would help women’s suffrage and increase women’s political rights.

In San Diego Lee was a member of First Unitarian Church, Wednesday Club, Civic Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and other groups for cultural and civic development.

She was also President of the San Diego Museum, the Balboa Park Auditorium Association, and the Balboa Park Commission. She was Honorary Director of the Women's Civic Center and Director of the Natural History Museum.

She founded the Open Forum, a group that was devoted to discuss social, political, and international issues. In 1935 the Open Forum was "oldest continuous non-legislative forum of free public discussion in the United States" and it closed in the 1970s.

She led the "Save the Beaches" campaign whose purpose was to open to public beaches in Southern California (especially San Diego). This campaign was against oil companies who had taken control of said beaches. Lee was also instrumental in developing the public playground system. The public playground system kept kids from developing bad habits and instead gave them somewhere to socialize in a healthy manner.

Personal Life:

Lee and her partner Katherine Teats shared a home on Seventh Avenue in San Diego from 1902 till Alice’s death in 1943 when Katherine continued in their home by herself. They lived in the main house of the residence and rented the other two homes. They hosted accuatences like the wife of Grover Cleveland, Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, Theodore Roosevelt’s, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt whom they were friends with. Because of these interactions they were also continuous guests at the White House. Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, and Frances Folsom Cleveland, who she met while campaigning for Theodore Roosevelt.

In 1905 they commissioned Hazel Wood Waterman, with the supervision of Irving Gill, to build three residences in San Diego, Alice Lee Residence at 3574 7th Ave, Katherine Teats Cottage at 3560 7th Ave and Alice Lee Cottage at 3578 7th Ave. The compound shared a garden designed by botanist and landscape architect Kate Sessions. Lee and Teats lived in the main house and used the other two for rentals. Teats continued to live at Teats Cottage, a Prairie-style house which Lee granted to her in 1906, until she died in 1952. Their residences are now labeled as historical landmarks.

Family:

Alice Lee was born on May 27, 1853, in Westport, New York, the daughter of Colonel Francis L. Lee (1823-1886) and Sarah Mary Anne Wilson. She was the second cousin of Theodore Roosevelt's wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.

Her parents had 6 children. Her siblings were Mary Lee Hay (1849-1902), Francis Wilson Lee (1852-1923), Anne Wilson Lee (1856-1919), Anna Lee (1856-1919), and Thomas Lee (1858-1936). She was the third child of Francis L. Lee and Sarah Mary Anne Wilson.

= Week 5: FINAL TOPIC: ALICE LEE: = Planning to contribute and expand mostly on early life by adding more about Alice's childhood and family life while breifly adding to other sections as noted below.

Things to add:


 * more visual representation (charts/quick facts/etc)
 * need to strengthen the introduction paragraph. Could summarize the article and her achievements as a civil leader/why she is important to civic technology, etc.
 * need to add more to early life. Original article does not mention any of her experiences as a child, teen, or young adult. Those experiences could have pushed her to become a civic leader.
 * Facts about the Progressive Movement can be added as well as moving the part where it explains how she got involved in the Progressive Movement to when it is first mentioned.
 * in career there is no explanation to why she bought Marvin House or it's significance to her career. It just jumps to how it was sold.
 * I can add her age to important dates in her career.
 * Does not explain how she got involved in fundraising for Westport Library or Cutting Memroial Hall addition.
 * Most of this artcicle does not explain how she came to do such achievements in her career nor how she came in aquatence with the people also involved
 * career can be moved above early life so that early life comes right before personal life.
 * family section could be added? maybe.
 * could create a visual timeline so that events are organized and then can be also organized in the article from oldest to newest based on that.

Possible Reliable Sources:


 * 1) https://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/3503589.html
 * 2) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20122751/alice-lee
 * 3) https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/ip/108646.htm
 * 4) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a71d7a6ace86443cc8ee697/t/5a734cbfec212d92a8cf7433/1517505730911/Walking-Tour-Westport-NY.pdf
 * 5) https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/planning/programs/historical/pdf/reports/hrb11062mtng110922.pdf
 * 6) https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1912.html
 * 7) Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 by Paul Sabin
 * 8) https://savingplaces.org/stories/how-we-came-to-play-the-history-of-playgrounds/
 * 9) https://passageport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/wadhamswestport.pdf

ARTICLE EVALUATION: Comparison of Civic Technology Platforms


 * Everything in this article stays on topic while addressing the different types of platforms
 * The formatting of the chart seems to be a bit distracting. I don't understand the difference or relevance of the blue versus red text.
 * This article seems to aim towards the political side of Civic Technology more than other aspects of it.
 * On the Comparison Chart inserted in the article it is seen that a lot of the platforms are chosen from California. Makes me wonder if the publisher was biased towards a Californian's perpective.
 * California viewpoint seems overrepresented as well as a democratic perspective.
 * Most of the links to the cited sources work and they seem to represent the topic of the article though it does make it seem biased based on the sources chosen.
 * Some of the refrences noted look reliable based on the organizations who published the information. A lot of the publishers seem to be field experts. The ones that don't look reliable are the ones that look like they come from self publishers on TechCrunch.
 * A lot of the information is from 2018. The informations is outdated since a lot has happened in the past 5 years politically that have shifted a lot of the facts presented. The publisher could input some of the impacts the past 5 years have caused these platforms to see a newer comparison of them.
 * Conversations about Capitalization, Citations, and Preface are going on in the background.
 * It is part of WikiProjects Software and is rated Start-Class on the quality scale, but Low-importance on the importance scale
 * Wikipedia discusses this topic differently from the way we've talked about it in class by noting an intense amount of sources, but it does kind of only cite a bunch of the same facts rather than show an actual comparison. Seems biased from how we discussed civic technology in class in a more factual way.

POSSIBLE ARTICLES TO WORK ON:

Option 1

 * Community Development
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Seems to be a long definition on community development
 * Does not have enough information to be considered detailed; it's very broad
 * Article seems to be out of order; it's messy/not well organized
 * It is written neutrally
 * Some claims have citations; there isn't enough citations in some paragraphs, yet others do have enough
 * The citations it does have seem to be reliable
 * Covers both of Wikipedia's equity gaps
 * Source:
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Option 2

 * Alice Lee (civic leader)
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Starts off with bad grammar/bad introduction
 * Early life could be strengthen (Too broad. Sentences are short and simple)
 * Article's content is relevant to the topic, but the contributions as a civic leader need to be invigorated
 * Each claim has a citation except the introduction
 * There needs to be more references
 * Overall: article is incomplete and short
 * Written neutrally
 * Citations are outdated so they might not be reliable; need to be updated/added to
 * Does not tackle Wikipedia's equity gaps
 * Source:
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