Gladys taber quotes about pride1/3/2024 At any door, a tall man may knock, with a paper to sign. Bred in the tradition that a man's home is his castle, we now know that is not so at all. My favorite view near New Milford is destined to go when that gracious and green valley is flooded by the power company. Plant well, says the soil, and I will nourish you once again.Īnd as I have felt so many times in the past few months, Gladys could be writing today. You feel the mystery of growth which so far man has not destroyed. You can feel the great old Mother Earth being released from winter rigidity, and giving again her richness to mankind. She writes about her friend George plowing the fields. 'Shake with excitement!' Don't you love that? I hope each of you also experienced such joy in your springs. Crocus makes rainbow patches all over the yard scilla like bits of the sky snipped out and scattered down. The early flowers have a special beauty - I always shake with excitement when I find the first clump of snowdrops, fragile, pearl-pure, bending their heads lightly toward the icy dark ground. I'd hear a song, and have a moment's hesitation before I recognized it. Isn't this what we all think every time it rolls around?! And this year I thought to myself that every spring I have to relearn the language of the birds, those I haven't heard for months and months. Surely never was spring so wonderful, such a miracle! And if you do a search for her name, you will find many results in the blogging world. There is a lot of biographical information, and a list of all her books here. There is a website for The Friends of Gladys Taber, of which I am a member. I found a cool little slideshow of Stillmeadow, her Connecticut home. When did women stop wearing such dresses? I miss women who look like this. Gladys and her daughter, Connie, and the Cocker Spaniel, Especially Me aka Teddy. Over the years I've posted a few photos of Gladys which you may find if you click on 'Gladys Taber' under 'Letter Topics.' These two were new to me.ġ955. You can increase the size to see it better. Here is a PDF, but it is the best of all the sites I've come upon. I was delighted when she left a comment here on the blog once. I so wish I could have gone to this at which the granddaughter pictured above, Rachel Peden McCarty spoke just this month. The child in this picture is her young granddaughter, also named Rachel, who is Past President of the Monroe County Historical Society, and Monroe County Historian. She wrote three books, Rural Free, a farmwife's almanac of country living Speak to the Earth: Pages from a Farmwife's Journal and The Land, The People, about the family farm. For 30 years she wrote a column, "The Hoosier Farm Wife Says." for the Indianapolis Star under the byline Mrs. She and her husband Richard lived on the family farm on Maple Grove Road, where they held open houses for children to see daily farm life. She graduated from Indiana University in 1923. These are the words which accompanied the following wonderful picture: Though this is very small, I loved seeing her with books on the shelf and her typewriter in front of her. I'll begin with a short video in which we see Rachel's landscape and the concerns about preserving it. To learn more about this yearlong adventure with Gladys Taber and Rachel Peden, you may scroll down to 'Letter Topics' and click 'A Year with Gladys and Rachel.'Īs we finish the second to the last month of this year with Gladys Taber and Rachel Peden, I thought it would be nice to offer some photos of, and links to, the women themselves.
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