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From: Robin Smith <smithr>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:47:39 -0600
To go along with this, one of the photos in Dinah Johnson's marvelous All Around Town show the two sides of someone's life: she has a photo of a woman wearing her maid's apron and then the same woman wearing earrings and a necklace.
"With her apron on this woman was a maid. But without it she was a mother, The best singer in the choir, a neighbor. A woman with dreams."
Message----From: James Elliott [mailto:J_C_Elliott at msn.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:56 AM To: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka Cc: Schliesman at education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Off-Topic Messages/Final Thoughts on Women's History
Absolutely beautiful. She hits it right on the head. I knew I liked Alice Walker for a reason.
Thanks for posting that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
To: James Elliott
Cc: Schliesman at education.wisc.edu ; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Off-Topic Messages/Final Thoughts on Women's History
James Elliott's stated desire for more from the parlor maid's
point of view reminded me of Alice Walker's poem "Women" from WORDS WITH
WINGS: A TREASURY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY AND ART selected by Belinda
Rochelle.
They were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice-Stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged Generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.
Cathy
--
Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
Youth Services Librarian
Peter White Public Library
217 N. Front St.
Marquette, MI 49855
(906) 228?10
fax (906) 22683
e-mail: cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us
Received on Thu 18 Nov 2004 09:47:39 AM CST
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:47:39 -0600
To go along with this, one of the photos in Dinah Johnson's marvelous All Around Town show the two sides of someone's life: she has a photo of a woman wearing her maid's apron and then the same woman wearing earrings and a necklace.
"With her apron on this woman was a maid. But without it she was a mother, The best singer in the choir, a neighbor. A woman with dreams."
Message----From: James Elliott [mailto:J_C_Elliott at msn.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:56 AM To: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka Cc: Schliesman at education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Off-Topic Messages/Final Thoughts on Women's History
Absolutely beautiful. She hits it right on the head. I knew I liked Alice Walker for a reason.
Thanks for posting that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
To: James Elliott
Cc: Schliesman at education.wisc.edu ; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Off-Topic Messages/Final Thoughts on Women's History
James Elliott's stated desire for more from the parlor maid's
point of view reminded me of Alice Walker's poem "Women" from WORDS WITH
WINGS: A TREASURY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY AND ART selected by Belinda
Rochelle.
They were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice-Stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged Generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.
Cathy
--
Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
Youth Services Librarian
Peter White Public Library
217 N. Front St.
Marquette, MI 49855
(906) 228?10
fax (906) 22683
e-mail: cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us
Received on Thu 18 Nov 2004 09:47:39 AM CST
