Remembering those we have loved, Edmund C.Tarbell, Artist. When a Kid founds a Company based on a School Project, Buy a One way Ticket and see all 7 Continents, African Animals Hub, 15 Indigenous Designers and what Sustainable Fashion is Missing
Thursday
5/28
My Maternal Grandmother was born in 1908.
ma·ter·nal
Children's Books were very special and there were only a few.
Here comes the Sun!
in 1908, The Wright Brothers Flew the first Plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and the Packard and the Ford Model T were new inventions.
When the Kid founds the Company, and everyone in the Family goes to work for the cause.
Foraging for your food.
National Geographic June 2020
15 Indigenous Designers and what Sustainable Fashion is missing.
Indigenous artists in North America today approach their creation process in the same way that their ancestors did: with a mutual respect for nature and the world that they live in.
The only way this culture will change is if the consumer changes their shopping habits. My hope for the future would be for people to take a step back and appreciate what they already have. Learn to sew their own clothes, buy from small, sustainable companies and individuals that are practicing safe working environments, and leaving smaller carbon footprints.”
5/28
The glittering leaves of the rhododendrons
Balance and vibrate in the cool air;
While in the sky above them
White clouds chase each other.
Balance and vibrate in the cool air;
While in the sky above them
White clouds chase each other.
–John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950)
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Edmund C. Tarbell, portrait, Mary Van Ness Hyde
May 28 is a special Day. My Grandmother Nessie was born on this day. She passed away when I was 2. Breast Cancer took her life, but her zest for life, love of animals, and incredible spirit lives on. People who knew her tell me I'm like her, I believe she is still a part of my life because I see her in mourning doves, roses, and horses, dairy cows, especially Jerseys, Collie dogs, Persian cats, and exploration too. She was an individual and I am too. I see her in my daughters and my Mom. I miss her, but I try to live life like she did, without complaint, simply, and with good intention. A dear friend who was a Farmer in Vermont, (Henry Stromaier, who passed last Fall), like she was at the end of her life, told me she was elegant on the inside. I love this.
One of the most amazing qualities of this generation is that many of them kept journals and wrote letters. Through these journals I learned of my Grandmother's life during this time in Quarantine. My Mother read through boxes of correspondence between family members and friends during this time. She found photographs that I had never seen. I have felt a window into her life, the past and the period of time she lived, and I am ever grateful for this.
One of the most amazing qualities of this generation is that many of them kept journals and wrote letters. Through these journals I learned of my Grandmother's life during this time in Quarantine. My Mother read through boxes of correspondence between family members and friends during this time. She found photographs that I had never seen. I have felt a window into her life, the past and the period of time she lived, and I am ever grateful for this.
Edmund C. Tarbell was born in the Asa Tarbell House, which stands beside the Squannacook River in West Groton, Massachusetts.[1] His father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, died in 1863 after contracting typhoid fever while serving in the Civil War. His mother, Mary Sophia (Fernald) Tarbell, remarried a shoemaking-machine manufacturer. Young "Ned" (as he was nicknamed) and his older sister, Nellie Sophia, were left to be raised by their paternal grandparents in Groton, a frontier town during the French and Indian Wars that the early Tarbell family helped settle.[2]
As a youth, Tarbell took evening art lessons from George H. Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. Between 1877 and 1880, he apprenticed at the Forbes Lithographic Company in Boston. In 1879, he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, studying under Otto Grundmann. He matriculated in the same class with Robert Lewis Reid and Frank Weston Benson, two other future members of the Ten American Painters.
Tarbell was encouraged to continue his education in Paris, France, then center of the art world. Consequently, in 1883 he entered the Académie Julian to study under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Paris exposed him to rigorous academic training, which invariably included copying Old Master paintings at the Louvre, but also to the Impressionist movement then sweeping the city's galleries. That duality would inform his work. In 1884, Tarbell's education included a Grand Tour to Italy, and the following year to Italy, Belgium, Germany and Brittany.
Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886, where he began his career as an illustrator, private art instructor and portrait painter.[3]
Edmund Tarbell contributed to America's place in the world of art. To him and his work Europe turned its eyes in admiration, as did the whole people in America. Tarbell's works were honest works. In him was none of the transient sensationalism which brought notoriety to others. Tarbell canvases will be speaking to the world centuries from now. His character was as true as his art.[10]
ma·ter·nal
Children's Books were very special and there were only a few.
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| A story about the lives and adventures of the animals who lived in the Wind in the Willows. |
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| About life on Campobello Island, the furthest Easternmost part of Maine and the United States. There is a PBS series that tells these stories, they are considered classic. If you visit here it has not changed. My children's Great Maternal Grandparents of their Fathers side are buried on Campobello Island, Calvin Hampton built ships, lived in Dorchester, MA, and Charlotte, his wife, had ties to her family on Campobello. |
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| There is a movie about Beatrix Potter's Life and the English Countryside and animals she took care of. |
Here comes the Sun!
as sung by the Cape Conservatory kids.
A 17-year-old’s business made millions on Amazon. Now it’s pivoting to masks
National Geographic June 2020
“My worst fear is that when this pandemic crisis is over things will go back to ‘normal’—even though normal wasn’t working,” writes Wross Lawrence, a professional forager (pictured above, collecting mugwort in east London). “Perhaps during this period, as we find ourselves keenly aware of our restricted access to the outdoors, we’ll take the time to think more about our vital relationship with the natural world.”
George Stone, TRAVEL Executive Editor National Geographic.
Hit all seven continents
You can travel by book, pictures and now the Internet. How Lucky we are.
It sounds like a feat, but think of it this way. Unless you’re reading this in the distant future on the Mars colony where you’ve lived since birth, you’re at least one-seventh of the way there already. -- Sam Eifling
Book a one-way ticket abroad
Unpack your suitcase in a foreign country, take a good long look around, and sette in without a return date in sight. Try on a new day-to-day in Canada, New Zealand, or any number of expat-friendly countries. You might teach English in Guatemala, volunteer on a farm in Crete, or be a digital nomad in Bali. Stake out a permanent patch of sand in a cheap coastal paradise, or join the roving, low-cost, high-vibes backpacking circuit. Options are limitless, and they all come with fresh challenges and new perspectives. -- Keller Powell
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African Animals Hub
Indigenous artists in North America today approach their creation process in the same way that their ancestors did: with a mutual respect for nature and the world that they live in.
The only way this culture will change is if the consumer changes their shopping habits. My hope for the future would be for people to take a step back and appreciate what they already have. Learn to sew their own clothes, buy from small, sustainable companies and individuals that are practicing safe working environments, and leaving smaller carbon footprints.”
Thanks for stopping by,
Eliza
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