art, history, chalk art, books, disability, education, parenthood, foodtrucks, thriftshopping, crochet, Wikipedia, Los Angeles; she/her
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Last Notes npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a short #wikipedia article on Alice Maxwell Lamb Updegraff (1863-1952), assistant #astronomer at Washburn Observatory and the Argentine National Observatory in the 1880s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Maxwell_Lamb_Updegraff @npub18hk…5d0k #WomeninSTEM #Wisconsin npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on Velma Bell Hamilton (1910-2009), first president of the Madison (WI) #NAACP when it was formed in 1943: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Bell_Hamilton @npub18hk…5d0k [@beloit_college](https://bird.makeup/users/beloit_college ) #MadisonWI #blackhistoryMonth npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on Norma Wagner (1928-1998), a white Freedom Rider who had trouble getting arrested in 1961 Mississippi and Louisiana, because she was blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Wagner @npub18hk…5d0k #MLKDay #CivilRights #DisabilityRights #dishist #FreedomRider #Blind #RochesterNY npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on US college professor Minnie Mason Beebe (1865-1955), earned a PhD at the University of Zurich in 1900, taught French and history at Syracuse University from 1900-1937: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Mason_Beebe @npub18hk…5d0k @npub13ha…lpyl #WWI npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on [@udelaware](https://bird.makeup/users/udelaware ) librarian and vice-provost Susan Brynteson (1936-2025): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brynteson @npub18hk…5d0k @npub19sm…n9mk #Yaddo #Libraries #JoeBiden #PaulLaurenceDunbar npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards I might need to make a rubber stamp or sticker that reads "HEY PORCH PIRATE, this package was mailed by a crafty auntie who only gives weird little handmade gifts and secondhand books. I promise you can leave this one alone." #makers #giftmas #buynothing npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on American #violinist Sarah Kreindler (1912-1993), also known as Sally Raderman; she was a child prodigy, and in adulthood played on film #soundtracks, with the Frank #Sinatra #orchestra and on recordings by Nat King Cole, #Elvis Presley, Barbra #Streisand, etc etc etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kreindler @npub18hk…5d0k #SanFrancisco [@wikipedia_la](https://bird.makeup/users/wikipedia_la ) #violin #radio #Hollywood #Menuhin npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on Santa Barbara-based landscape architect and magazine editor, Elizabeth Kellam de Forest (1898-1984): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kellam_de_Forest @npub18hk…5d0k @npub12ve…erm8 #StanfordUniversity #SantaBarbara #Montecito #UCSB #LandscapeArchitecture npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on Lillias MacDonald (1885-1961), first dean of women @npub1q9u…mdz6 , a title she held from 1922 to 1952: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillias_MacDonald @npub18hk…5d0k #BuffaloNY @npub1j2q…zq0z @npub1pce…dgdc npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards looks like scrapple! (Also not the healthiest choice, I know.) npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards Does this mean he won't be able to get a Real ID? Is papal infallibility sufficient at the DMV, or does he need some Vatican paperwork to document the name change? npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards And today I started a #wikipedia article on Laura Johnson Wylie (1855-1932), the first woman to earn a PhD in English @npub1h9c…nmmg (in 1894); she was head of the English department @npub12ve…erm8 from 1895 to 1924: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Johnson_Wylie @npub18hk…5d0k @npub174m…929u #Poughkeepsie npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on German-born American anthropologist Hanna Kaiser Papanek (1927-2017); as a child she moved to Czechoslovakia, France, and New York to flee the Nazis. She sailed from Lisbon to New York City on the SS Nyassa in December 1940; the ship full of refugees was under distress on arrival. She earned a PhD at Harvard, and studied women's lives in Pakistan in the 1950s, Indonesia in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Papanek @npub18hk…5d0k #Pakistan #Indonesia #purdah npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on US pianist and music educator Jean Coston Maloney (1916-1968); she was the first Black guest soloist to play a full concert with the New Orleans Symphony, and played for a non-segregated audience in New Orleans in 1953. One of her students was Ellis Marsalis. npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards I think this all the time but maybe I don't always type it out: I love that you do this important work. You sound really patient. npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards It always makes sense to try and make life less difficult for yourself and others--but especially right now. Take extra care of your health; take extra care of your relationships; take extra care of your stuff (so you don't have to buy more stuff or do without something important). Learn some new skills that will help with all those projects. Pay people well for helping you. Share what you can. Don't panic or be rash; you might achieve more by thinking and taking extra care. npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards Husband and I both remember our families getting their first microwaves in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and kitchen appliances being big gameshow prizes ("You win an AMANA RADAR RANGE!"). A lot of the EWRT public workshops in the 1970s seemed to be teaching women (and men!) to use these trendy new electrical gadgets safely. npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on the Electrical Women's Round Table, founded in 1923 by women working for US electrical utilities; the membership was diverse, but mostly home economists who demonstrated appliances, taught about home safety and efficiency, designed lighting, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_Women%27s_Round_Table @npub18hk…5d0k #WomeninSTEM #WINUP npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards And she's listed as "never married (single)" in the 1950 census. But she's still Goodpasture's co-author, so the link can stand on that basis. npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards Hmm, but.... Goodpasture's death certificate in 1960 lists Katherine Anderson as his spouse--maybe that photo caption was imprecise about which woman married Goodpasture? (Unless both women did.) npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on Colorado pathologist Ella Mae Gallavan (1903-1966): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Mae_Gallavan @npub18hk…5d0k #WomeninSTEM #JohnsHopkinsU @npub1q59…03zn #Pathology npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on American artist, aviator, athlete, wartime mapmaker, technical illustrator, and "interpretive astronomer', Frances Burr (1890-1974): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burr @npub18hk…5d0k #WomeninSTEM @npub1kxk…qk5l npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on American #vaudeville, #burlesque performer, Natalie Dagwell (1886-1965): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Dagwell @npub18hk…5d0k #Utica #WWI #Broadway npub1hc3w2072swp70gsxaxmscpz6ljqewhaad8hekzk3jgnx6pgfw2zqn880f9 Penny Richards started a #wikipedia article on US dancer Etta Pillard (1888-after 1947): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Pillard @npub18hk…5d0k #Buffalo #burlesque #vaudeville #dance Still looking for a death date, anyone?
