Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 71
September 1, 2016
The Lincolns and the Actors
Everyone knows about Abraham Lincoln’s brief run-in with John Wilkes Booth, but other Lincolns had life and death incidents involving theater folks.
Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth
One of dozens of etched interpretations of the Lincoln Assassination in Ford’s Theatre.
John Wilkes Booth came from a well regarded family of dramatic actors. His father Junius Brutus Booth appeared in leading roles about the time Lincoln was born. His famous older brother Edwin was the m...
August 30, 2016
Regency Personalities Series-Charlotte Hood 3rd Duchess of Bronte
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Charlotte Hood Baroness Bridport 3rd Duchess of Bronte
20 September 1787 – 29 January 1873
Charlotte Hood 3rd Duchess of Bronte was the daughter of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and Sarah Yonge. She died at the age of 85 in Cricket St. Thomas, Somerset, England. She was buried in Cricket St. Thomas, Somerset.
She succ...
North Carolina woman still receives Civil War pension
More than 150 years after the end of the War Between the States, the US government continues to pay out pension money connected to the Civil War.
Irene Triplett, a Wilkesboro, NC, woman and the 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran, collects $73.13 each month from her father’s military pension.
Triplett’s father was Mose Triplett, born in Wilkes County, NC, in 1846. He joined the Confederate army in May 1862 as a member of Company K of the 53rd North Carolin...
‘It’s All About the Madisons’ doesn’t have quite the same ring
The likelihood of coming across a $5,000 bill is infinitesimally minute. Banks don’t carry them, the US Department of the Treasury hasn’t produced any in more than 80 years and, besides,I personally can’t remember the last time I received more than 5K in change on a purchase.
Actually, the $5,000 bill, featuringdiminutiveVirginian James Madison, was recalled from circulation in 1969.
As with other large-denomination notes such as the $500, $1,000 and $10,000 bills...
Mary Somerville: A Passion for Science
Mary Somerville was born in Scotland on Dec. 26, 1780, and had four supreme passions in her life: her family, equality for women, science, and birds.
Described as feminine in manner and appearance, as a girl she never cared for dolls. Her mother said she would have been content if Mary had “only learnt to write well and keep accounts which was all that a woman was expected to know.” Mary, however, had a talent for mathematics. She taught herself by listening in on her brother as he was tuto...
Victor Hugo, Devoted Grandfather
Victor Hugo with his beloved grandchildren.
Snippets 90. John Swinton was a popular journalist, who was chief editor of the New York Times during the 1860s. In 1883 he launched John Swinton’s Paper, an influential publication campaigning for the rights of workers in America. His views may have been influenced in some measure by a visit to Britain three years earlier, during which he witnessed the worst examples of poverty he had ever seen on the streets of London, Birm...
August 29, 2016
Clarissa Lawrence of Salem
The intertwined histories of Salem’s African-American community and Abolitionist movement in the mid-nineteenth century are often referenced and represented by the work of two strong women, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) and Sarah Parker Remond (1824-1894), both born into families that were free, prosperous, and ardent advocates of abolition. Charlotte was a Philadelphia girl who came north to receive an integrated education in Salem: she graduated from the Higginson and...
6th Annual Art Project Los Angeles September 17, 2016, at the beautiful Bonhams auction house on Sunset Boulevard
ArtQuench founder Stacia Gates and ArtQuench correspondent Jennifer Bentson are donating paintings for the cause.
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“No More Fear” By Stacia Gates will be donated in memory of her brother Broya Marcus Shaw
“Marc died on July 14, 2014 and I will forever cherish the memories of laughter between us.”
Jennifer Bentson donates,
“Largest Engelmann Oak in...
The shipwrecks at Ipswich Bar
The Ipswich Bar has a long history of tragic shipwrecks. Its swift currents and shallow waters are especially dangerous during storms, and many ships have gone aground. In 1802 and again in 1852 the Merrimack Humane Society of Newburyport constructed shelters at Sandy Point for shipwreck victims, and massive timbers can still be seen protruding from its dunes. Several ships that made safe passage between Sandy Point and Crane Beach went ashore at Steep Hill Beach, where...
En Pleine Mer… Zarh Pritchard’s Underwater Paintings
Zarh Pritchard, c. 1918
On the 29th of August 1956, British-American artist and the pioneer of underwater painting Zarh Pritchard died in Austin, Texas. ”Zarh Prichard was the first painter to compose based on observations en pleine mer. …In the 1910s and ‘20s, Pritchard’s works were internationally acclaimed as the first windows on the underwater frontier, and they were acquired by leading scientific institutions like the American Museum of Natural History, the Musée Océanograp...
