by Nancy | Nov 28, 2010 | Miscellaneous
I thoroughly enjoyed going to the Brooks Art Museum in Memphis today. We went especially to see the exhibit of William Christenberry’s photographs. They were all taken in Alabama around the area where he was born. There was also a very interesting movie about...
by Nancy | Aug 28, 2010 | Chasing Caterpillars, Research
Writing this part has been going well…until I realized I needed to address the slavery issue in Surinam in 1700. Stuck big time! It was not a good situation and I really didn't want to go into it. But I cannot ignore it since Maria Sybilla...
by Nancy | Aug 12, 2010 | Art, News
Went to my first Springfield Art Museum board meeting this evening; everybody was very friendly and I enjoyed being there. It took about two months to become official. Of course first there was the interview with the assistant mayor and the director of the art museum....
by Nancy | May 12, 2010 | Miscellaneous
This month of May started with me finding three four-leaf clovers in two days at home. Yesterday coming back from Memphis I stopped at Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, to give the dog a chance to do what dogs need to do. I found a total of five four-leaf clovers before we...
by Nancy | Apr 5, 2010 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
Were there really no wells in Amsterdam in the late 1600s? While researching material for my book about Maria Sybilla Merian I realized that not once had I come across any reference to wells. Nothing was mentioned in the books I read. I had not...
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