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A Woman Who Witnessed a Historical Movement

March is Women's History Month! It's time to shine a spotlight on the ladies in our family trees. I'll be writing all month on women I've researched. I encourage all family history lovers to take the month to seek out the stories of our foremothers!       Our local genealogical society features the "Ancestor Question of the Month" in our newsletter. For the month of March one of the prompts was, "Which of your female ancestors witnessed a historic American event? What was it? What was her experience?" I looked through my tree to find a female ancestor whose life intersected with an historic event. Since many of my women ancestors are still under researched, I can only image their experiences of events like the Civil War, the Great Depression, plagues, or natural disasters. But I did light upon one ancestor who experienced not so much a historic event but a historical  movement in the medical field. I've written many times about my second great-...
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FAVORITE PHOTO

by Nancy Gilbride Casey


This favorite photo of many I have taken over the years comes with a special anecdote.

When our daughter Anne (then known as Annie), was preschool age, she dedicated great parts of each day drawing with markers, painting with watercolors, coloring in books. In summer, she drew with chalk on the sidewalk. 

Every gift-giving occasion was another opportunity to buy a new box of crayons or paints, and reams of paper, tablets large and small, and sheaves of manila and construction paper to feed her never-ending appetite to draw.

Her artwork covered our refrigerator, was sent on to grandparents, and hung on our office bulletin boards. 

Art was already ingrained into her little personality.

Each day Annie created literally a dozen or more creations, in a free flow of imagination, wild, exotic, and uniquely from her sometimes funny and observant perspective.

On the occasion of this photo, I captured her one morning, sitting at her little art easel, paintbrush in hand, engrossed in one of that day's many creations.

"Are you going to be an artist when you grow up, Annie?" I asked.

Without taking her eyes off her artwork, and without skipping a beat, she replied,

"But Mommy...I already AM an artist!"

To this day, I can't argue with that.

 

Until next time...
 
This post was inspired by Amy Johnson Crowe's 52 Ancestor in 52 Weeks Challenge. 

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