Mastodawn

Inda Bels Nov 26, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/26/cecily-sandercock-war-maps-cartography-collection-queensland-state-library

‘I wanted to do something useful’: the teenager who drew edible maps for Australia’s wartime pilots

Rulers and rice paper became tools of war for a young cartographer whose work is mapped out in a new collection donated to Queensland State Library

The Guardian

Inda Bels Oct 30, 2023

Distribution discussions and transportation of his ashes were perhaps the hardest things I had to deal with after my husband’s death. In ‘Get the Wheel, Let’s go for a Ride’, Barb Sobell recounts her own experience and final farewell. #widowhood #grief #MiserableBusiness
https://barbsobel.substack.com/p/get-the-wheel-lets-go-for-a-ride

Get the Wheel, Let’s Go For A Ride

July 25, 2023

Miserable Business

Inda Bels Oct 30, 2023

Jennifer Ebeling, of the podcast ‘The Daily Gardener: A Podcast about Botanical History and Literature’ creates OTD posts about botanists, and in this case a widow, of interest. Far from OTD, may I still salute Martha Daniel Logan and her #rareseeds. #widowedwriter #seedexchange
https://mindly.social/@GardenerPodcast/109600926769830937

Jennifer Ebeling (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image #December 29, 1704 #OTD Martha Daniel Logan, American #Botanist, is born. After her #Husband died, Martha provided #Rare #Seeds & #Plants to the top #Botanists of her time & set up a #Seed exchange between the American #Colonies & #Britain. She also wrote a #Gardening advice column & her #Gardener's #Calendar graced the back of #Almanacs for decades. In 1761, John #Bartram wrote that Martha was, “an elderly #Widow #Lady who spares no pains or cost to oblige me. Her #Garden is her #Delight."

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