Joanna Tebbs Young
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Joanna Tebbs Young, MA, MFA Freelance Writer & Historian, Teaching Artist Author of award-winning "Lilian Baker Carlisle: VT Historian, Burlington Treasure" wisdomwithinink.com / rutlandwhen.wordpress.com
Today, apples aren’t generally associated with Halloween; fall, yes (it’s almost as if we are contractually obligated to go apple-picking this…
Horace Greeley, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Beecher and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow … undoubtedly some of the most famous…
In Manchester’s Dellwood Cemetery, two women are buried as closely as they worked, a mother and daughter who fought side-by-side for women’s s…
According to the Rutland Weekly Review, Friday, July 4, 1884, saw “the largest audience that ever was gathered under one roof in Rutland.” And…
Author’s note: Unless otherwise noted, all quotes in the following article are from Frederick F. Van de Water’s 1937 book “Rudyard Kipling’s V…
Horace Greeley may be remembered as the 1841 founder and editor of the New York Tribune. He may also be remembered as the liberal Republican w…
Whether Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an M.D., ever visited Vermont is uncertain; she most definitely never lived here. …