Marian Wilson Kimber
@mwilsonkimber
Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
Ironically, here are the proofs I'm reading today. (First correction: Women.)
And here's an Instagram post today with both an incorrect portrait and name, and a mythic story.
If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
Today's historical find. Federal Art Project poster for the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library, c. 1941-43, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This is my favorite headline from the research I did for my new book. Now, after every boring committee meeting, I hear it in my head.
I think I have found a worthy competitor to those portraits of Cécile Mendelssohn that are supposed to be Fanny Hensel.
Now we are taking the Freedom 250 state fair to Abu Dhabi. Get $1 million to participate. As a Midwesterner, I'm struck by in the use of the word "heartland" in the rhetoric. Does this mean participants from Boston or California can't apply?
Even amidst the “Colonial edifice of oranges” at the San Bernadino orange show.
As George and Martha Washington in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Tech High School.
Cute second graders in Indianapolis lead the minuet revival.
Today's historical find, special America at 250 mega-thread. In 1932, to celebrate George Washington's birthday, everyone, and I mean everyone, danced the minuet. First, in Cleveland.
Getting ready for the big celebration of the nation's 250th? Today's historic find—Harriet Harris in Boise, Idaho in 1932—has got all your minuet needs covered.
Happy U.S 250. There are still fife gigs available with the U.S. Army.
And don't forget your "George and Martha Colonial Wigs," only $2.50 each from Joske's in San Antonio.