Learning Hebrew and Yiddish Words

Today I have to thank Drora Oren for helping me to pronounce the Hebrew and Yiddish words in my Crossing Delancey script. I love it that some of them are paired with gesture. I always talk with my hands anyway.

Rain

My grass loved last night's rain. Short though the showers were, this morning I was greeted by a sea of green and lovely popped open bleeding hearts along with columbine that is reaching to the sky.

Bubbie

Today is another step to becoming Bubbie in Crossing Delancey. My hair should be happy because it will be more of a match to my accent. Songs of Kugel are running through my head.

Relaxed

I have to say my morning walk with Sis did relax me. I love to let my steps take my tension away. The smell of the morning air, the sound of the birds, the beavers and the muskrats, the pace of the walk, the pleasant conversation is the best way to start a day.

Sun Through the Trees

The sun is shining through the trees. The wind blows the branches that have the smallest of leaves and buds. It feels like Spring. All this through my window while I work inside.

Wind

Swirling, whirling wind

I want to fly with you today.

Mattie Culver Travels to Montana

Mattie Shipley Culver 

The Mattie Shipley Culver home sources display will be finding a 2012 summer home at the Yellowstone Historic Center in West Yellowstone, Montana.

Mattie is buried at the confluence of the Firehole River and Nez Perce Creek in Yellowstone National Park. I have written a biography about Mattie relying upon home sources to reveal her identity:

Not unlike today, life for women in the nineteenth century served up hearty challenges on a daily basis, though the burdens of 100 plus years ago certainly were of a different flavor. Mattie: A Woman's Journey West offers a taste of that life through the story of Martha "Mattie" Shipley Culver, whose life passage took her from her childhood in industrial new England and work in the New York textile industry to her role as the wife of a winter caretaker in Yellowstone National Park, where she died and was buried in 1889, at the age of 32. 

  

This autograph book was instrumental in discovering Mattie's past.

Check out Mattie's Facebook Page:

Mattie, A Woman's Journey West