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Saturday, April 24, 2021
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Friday, April 23, 2021
T is for Thomas and Tesla
Thursday, April 22, 2021
S is for Stewart
Years lived before 1921: Seven
A To Z Easter Eggs
A to Z Archives: S is for Stewart at HSD. We go back 6 years ago today when I wrote about Mr. Stewart in my 2nd go round of the a to z challenge. For more of the 2021 rendition of the challenge click here.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
3 R's of Racial Reconciliation
"Pursuit of equal partnership in relationships"
By that definition my 3 R's who were living in 1921 epitomized that definition in their greatest achievements. Those 3 people are Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. Each of these people in their own way pursued an equal partnership in relationships and in doing so they shaped 20th century America.
Branch Rickey
1921 Index In Progress
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Q is for Queens Consort
Monday, April 19, 2021
P is for Prokofiev
My Theme will be Capitals. Due to the random nature of my blog, and specifically my mind, each entry may only be somewhat related to the capital mentioned. For example, it is entirely possible that Friday April third's entry will feature the Krispy Kreme themed love song I wrote in 1995 because I wrote it while living in Columbia, South Carolina where I encountered my first Krispy Kreme.
I mention that here. because today's post about Sergei Prokofiev will tell you probably a lot more about me than Prokofiev. But let's at least start with Prokofiev.
Sergei Prokofiev
Saturday, April 17, 2021
O is for Oskar.
I don't know a lot about cancel culture, but I seem to hear and read a lot about it. My best understanding of it is that with cancel culture people can be reduced to the worst thing (or most recent bad thing) that you've done and other positive achievements are overlooked or forgotten in light of the bad.
Oskar Schindler was not a product of cancel culture. He seemed to be more of the opposite. Nazi, serial philanderer, spy, war profiteer are labels that could easily mar any good you could otherwise accomplish. But in Schindler we find an extremely flawed man remembered and revered for his greatest accomplishment.
I personally was raised thinking that life was like a moral bank ledger where you hoped your black ink outweighed your red. I no longer feel that way. In some ways like the hundreds of Jews that Schindler saved from death in concentration camps I was saved by a conscious choice not of a flawed man but by a perfect God.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
N is for Nevins: Guest Post
My youngest daughter when she heard about my a to z challenge theme this year asked if she could write about one of the Radium girls. Since I don't know very much about the radium girls I asked her if she's be willing to write a guest post about one of them. She chose Charlotte Nevins Purcell who she will be portraying in her high schools spring play, These Shining Lives.
Radium Girl
Charlotte Nevins Purcell was one of the dial painters who worked at the now infamous Radium Dial company in Ottawa, Illinois. She was one of the many women working at the company (now known as the 'Radium Girls') who painted watch faces with radium powder, which wasn't widely known to be harmful at the time. Because of this, she was also one of the many women who suffered from radium poisoning as a result of their work. Charlotte had to have her arm amputated because of the radium, which allowed her to live longer than many of the other women whos poisoning had taken effect in more vital areas.
" A relative said: ‘She was pretty outspoken. She told people what she thought about things ... she spoke her mind about a lot of things.’ That perhaps explains why Charlotte played such an important role in the Illinois lawsuits. She and Catherine Donohue were ‘spokesmen for the other women’." - Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls, wrote about Purcell
Charlotte Purcell was evidently the kind of person who would not give up and would not stand for injustice. According to family members, she once tied one end of a jump rope to a fence in order to be able to jump rope with only one arm, because of her amputation. This shows how she never let anything stop her, which is truly inspiring.
Thanks daughter! For more A to Z challenge click here.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
M is for Merman
A TO Z Easter Eggs
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
L is for Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln
Years Lived Before 1921: Seventy-Eight
Years Lived After 1921: Five
Robert Lincoln was the first child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln and the only one who survived past the age of 18. He served as secretary of War under James Garfield and then Chester A. Artur after Garfield's assassination. In 1889 Lincoln became the U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom. He was the last U.S. minister to the U.K. His predecessor was the first U.S. ambassador to the U.K. Lincoln served 15 years as president of the Pullman Car Company after the death of George Pullman.
Lincoln was 21 when his father was assassinated and was present when his father died. In his role as Garfield's Secretary of war he was a witness to Garfield's assassination. In 1901 Lincoln was in Buffalo attending the Pan-American exposition as part of his duties as President of Pullman when he witnessed the assassination of William McKinley.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
K is for Kid
In 1890, The Philadephia Quakers baseball team of the National League changed their name to the Philadephia Phillies and have been so for almost 125 years, That 1990 team had not one but two players on it that are on my a to z challenge pf people living in 1921. Neither of those players are remembered for being baseball players. One was Baseball player turned evangelist Billy Sunday who was featured here way back on April 2nd. The other is William Jethro "Kid" Gleason who was the manager of the infamous 1919 Black Sox.
Kid Gleason
Years lived before 1921: Fifty-Five
Years lived after 1921: Twelve
J is for John and Johnson
Friday, April 9, 2021
I is for Ingalls
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Quiner Ingalls lived from 1839-1924 (83 years before 1921 and 3 after)
Laura's older sister Mary was born in 1865 and died 4 years after her mother in 1928. She lived 56 years before 1921 and 7 years after.
Laura's baby sister Grace was born in 1877, 44 years prior to 1921. She passed away20 years later in 1941.
In 1921 Laura's sister Carrie turned 51 years of age. When she died 25 years later, Laura became the last surviving child of her father and mother.
Almanzo Wilder like my own grandfather was 10 years older than his wife. Almanzo lived 64 years before 1921 and lived 28 years after passing away in 1949.
Laura and Almanzo's daughter Rose was born in 1886 and died in 1968. She lived 35 years prior to 1921 and 47 years after that. Rose was the last living descendent of Charles and Carolyn, unless you count Laura's books which still enjoy a life of their own
I am posting this letter early which I hardly ever do. I am taking the weekend off and will be back with the letter J on Monday. Please go bak and enjoy more of the challenge.
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