This photo is of Betty Simmons, who was more than 100 yrs old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, TX. She was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-yr old child to work in the fields.
Rima I Anabtawi
Wait, what's this? We HAD electric rail from Portland to Eugene, WITH a branch to Corvallis?! Oh, Oregon.
Update June 19th: Still Missing
The New York Times's obituary for Jane Yolen (gift link):
Beautiful Paul Klee show at the Jewish Museum, on view through July 26. This is unsurprisingly the centerpiece: Klee's 1920 Angelus Novus, iconic for having inspired Walter Benjamin's reflections on angel of history. Other stunners in the show include...(thread) thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Bibi's products are SO GREAT! You can tell that her disability products were DESIGNED BY A DISABLED PERSON, because they are COMFY and CUTE, all while being QUALITY at a decent value!
And it's awesome to know our purchases benefit a Black disabled queer person instead of a heartless corporation.
It hasn't rained in a while and the baby squirrels are moving much slower than they were.
“We have lost a bright star”: Jane Yolen, distinguished author of more than 400 books for young people, is remembered by her peers following her death. See our tribute:
I worry sometimes that I am as bad at everything as I am at housework. I'll never know if I don't stop trying to get the housework done before I do something else.
Gabriel Liston
Michael Lobel
Rest in Peace to Jane Yolen, who died this week age 87. I have this memory from some time back before I gave up Facebook of her posting that she had at that time published 365 books, one for each day of the year. That was at least 6 years ago.
One of the greats, now among the stars.
A line between Portland, OSU, and U of O would be absolutely brilliant, especially on Civil War days.
For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library.
Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/...
Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
