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PennamitePLR, 1 month ago to bookstodon

#10authors5booksEach (10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by) @bookstodon

David Mitchell
Margaret Atwood
Octavia Butler
Ann Patchett
Haruki Murakami
Kate Atkinson
Tana French
Jeff Vandermeer
Lisa See
Geraldine Brooks
Toni Morrison

Whoops, that's 11.

PennamitePLR, 2 months ago to earthquake

As a Los Angeles resident, I miss #earthquaketwitter, but Mastodon's doing great with the New Jersey shimmy right now. A scroll of one-sentence in-the-moment human reactions from a whole region is so effective, esp. before official reports are available. #earthquake

PennamitePLR, 2 months ago to Wikipedia

started a #wikipedia article on American educator, folklorist, local historian, Lelah Allison (1893-1956): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelah_Allison @wikiwomeninred #Illinois @southernillinois

Lelah Allison in the 1940s or early 1950s; a middle-aged woman with dark hair in a set style, wearing glasses

PennamitePLR, 4 months ago to Wikipedia

started a #wikipedia article on US educator Marguerite Frierson (1907-1998), an education professor who taught at Shaw University, Barber-Scotia College, and, from 1949 to 1971, at Fayetteville State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Frierson @wikiwomeninred #BlackHistoryMonth #NorthCarolina @ohiostatealumni #Fayetteville #ShawUniversity #BarberScotiaCollege #Education

Marguerite Frierson, from a 1928 issue of The Crisis; a young Blac, woman with dark hair dressed in a side parted style, wearing a light-colored scoop-neck top with a fringy shoulder detail

PennamitePLR, 4 months ago to Wikipedia

started a #wikipedia article on US educator Ethna Beulah Winston (1903-1993), dean of women at Tougaloo College and Atlanta Clark U: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethna_Beulah_Winston @wikiwomeninred @tougaloo_1869 #WindsorCT @howardu #blackhistorymonth

Ethna Beulah Winston, from her high school yearbook in 1922; a Black teenager with dark hair and skin, wearing a light-colored sailor-style blouse or school uniform

PennamitePLR, 4 months ago to Wikipedia

started a #wikipedia article on Helen Gerrells Stoddard (1850-1940), president of Texas WCTU from 1891-1907, a founder of Texas Woman's University, ran for Congress in California in 1912: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gerrells_Stoddard @wikiwomeninred #temperance #suffrage #education #Texas

Helen Gerrells Stoddard, an older white woman, hair parted center, wearing a fur collar over a print blouse

PennamitePLR, 5 months ago to random

If you tell me “I never want to catch #COVID again”, but you are doing absolutely nothing to avoid catching Covid, forgive me but I do not believe you. #covidisnotover

PennamitePLR, 8 months ago to Wikipedia

started a #wikipedia article about Sarah Margru Kinson (1830s-?), one of the four children aboard the Amistad, educated at Oberlin, became a missionary teacher in West Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Margru_Kinson @wikiwomeninred @oberlincollege #Amistad #SierraLeone #Mende #Slavery

Sarah Margru Kinson as a young woman, in a illustration published in 1850; a dark-skinned woman wearing a plaid or checked blouse with a tie collar

PennamitePLR, 9 months ago to Wikipedia

started a #wikipedia article on Scottish soprano singer and actress, Kathlyn Hilliard (1892-1933): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlyn_Hilliard @wikiwomeninred #Scotland #Opera #NationalPortraitGallery

Kathlyn Hilliard looking glamourous in the 1920s; a white woman with blond hair in marcelled waves, wearing a white fur wrap
A smiling Kathlyn Hilliard in 1920, photographed by Bassano, in the National Portrait Gallery UK
A smiling Kathlyn Hilliard in costume, from a 1922 publication; a young white woman wearing an 18c-style cap and dress