1796: Maria Martin born (painter, associate of John James Audubon)
1856: Sara McLean Greene born (writer)
1860: Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman born (writer, reformer, publisher, Hull House resident)
1873: Frances Stern born (social worker, dietitian)
1901: Ruth Crawford Seeger born (composer, musician, folk music scholar, collaborator with Charles Seeger, Carl Sandburg, John and Alan Lomax; mother of Peggy Seeger and Mike Seeger, stepmother of Pete Seeger)
1908: M. F. K. Fisher born (writer, food essayist)
Quote for Today
Our three basic needs, for food and security and love are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.
"I thought of Mother Jones, I thought of Rosa Parks,
Sojourner Truth and Rosa Luxemburg, it's them I have to thank.
Guerrilla folks have taught me if freedom you are wanting,
If head-on fights are daunting use the flank . . ."
-- from "It's A Free World" by Peggy Seeger
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