And if all this wasn't enough, she even DRESSES in keeping with her other-century life. She gardens barefoot in long skirts, she wears capes and flannel petticoats and just keeps adding layers when the weather gets cold. Her long, silver braids are perpetually pinned up on her head and covered in a scarf. She is a flower in her own garden.
As I write this, I so wish I could share these exquisite photos with you, but a) I really couldn't find many appropriate internet links to put in here and b) I would hate to diminish any of the magical quality of the actual photos as they open across the full width of this beautiful book. Richard follows Tasha through the seasons from the very first snowdrops signalling the end of another long Vermont winter to the final photo of her sitting before a roaring fire, a great woolen scarf/shawl about her shoulders, god knows HOW many skirts and aprons on, and she's working on some magnificently flower-bordered illustration.(sigh)
To say I recommend this book to the class is QUITE the understatement. To say I want to BE Tasha Tudor when I grow up is, well.......true. Why include her in Women's Herstory? Did she win a great battle? Did she make great sweeping social change? Perhaps not, but she certainly has done something that earns her a place in a herstory book THIS beautiful. 'She has touched us, we have grown'........Thank you, Tasha; Thank you, Tovah; Thank you, Richard. My life is the richer for what you all have done.
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Jan 16, 2004 2:01 PM
In response to message posted by gentility:
I agree wholeheartedly about our being the sum of all of the women who have inf ...
-- posted by marvswife
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Jun 14, 2003 11:48 PM
In response to message posted by LadyB:
Is there a time limit for commenting on comments? New to Suite U.. May I kindly ...
-- posted by gentility
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Mar 26, 1999 4:22 AM
about Tasha Tudor yesterday as I adjusted the cell phone on my tool belt because it kept getting in my way of bending over to fuss with rose bushes....(sigh) ...
-- posted by LadyB
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Mar 25, 1999 8:24 AM
I ordered the book from Amazon - 30pc off - and of course I thought I'd better order another to make the shipping cost less [it's the Irish blood in me] and stopped myself ordering another. There was ...
-- posted by Gay_Klok
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Mar 25, 1999 5:14 AM
to that link.....I do believe someone is marketing for her. When you read the text of the book, she seems NOTHING like that.......
Interesting concept of perhaps the newest generation picking up an ...
-- posted by LadyB
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