Many of the choices and freedoms women have today exist thanks to a group of intrepid young women in 1920s known as “flappers.” The lifestyle freedoms those young women made possible not only enriched their future, but also the present.

Thousands of snowy-white tundra swans announce their arrival each year around the final weeks of winter, and their presence is heralded as a promise of spring. The chatty birds communicate with others flying in their group with honking or bugling sounds.