#Martha Ballard

dooryard weed

“dooryard weed, great plantain, Englishman’s foot, devil’s shoestring, hen plant, birdseed, waybread & rabbit plantain“ are a few of the…

#birdseed #Broadleaf Plantain #devil’s shoestring #dooryard weed #Englishman’s foot #garden #great plantain #hen plant #Laurel Thatcher Ulrich #lawns #Martha Ballard #MassHumanities 2014 Conference #rabbit plantain #way bread

looking back, looking forward

As the New Year dawns, it seems appropriate to look back as well as forward. Martha Ballard, midwife, January 1,…

#Abigail May Alcott #farm #garden #historian #housewife #Laurel Thatcher Ulrich #Louisa May Alcott #Margaret Dow Gebby #Martha Ballard #spring #women

re-spooled

Friday afternoon, I picked up a disc of scanned 35mm slides. Of course, these were not glass slides like the…

#Abigail Andrews #diary #frost free date #Gramercy Typewriter #Laurel Thatcher Ulrich #Martha Ballard #pea shoots #peas #root crops #slides #typewriter

april fools

60 degrees at high noon. Hail at 1pm and snow showers at 3pm. Mother Nature’s April fool day joke, I…

#diary #historian #Laurel Thatcher Ulrich #Martha Ballard #midwife #spring #weather

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