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Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

art, history, chalk art, books, disability, education, parenthood, foodtrucks, thriftshopping, crochet, Wikipedia, Los Angeles; she/her

Current header: from the cover of "The Story of the Typewriter" (1923)

Current avatar: Me, fifty-something white woman, wearing a black beanie, black framed eyeglasses, and a large white mask

What is a Pennamite? A person from Pennsylvania; usually seen in the phrase "Yankee-Pennamite Wars"

I'm also at pixelfed.social, same name, for photosharing.


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Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

It always makes sense to try and make life less difficult for yourself and others--but especially right now. Take extra care of your health; take extra care of your relationships; take extra care of your stuff (so you don't have to buy more stuff or do without something important). Learn some new skills that will help with all those projects. Pay people well for helping you. Share what you can. Don't panic or be rash; you might achieve more by thinking and taking extra care.

Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

started a #wikipedia article on UK actress, writer, playwright Edith Ostlere (1871-1931), also known as Edith Elizabeth Bury, Edith Lapthorne, Edith Gayer Mackay, and Robert Ord... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Ostlere @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup @wikimediauk@wikis.world #Theatre

Edith Ostlere, a young white woman with dark curls in an updo, wearing a light colored dress with big puff sleeves Edith Ostlere, a white woman with dark curly hair, wearing a white hat with a wide brim, and a white dress with lace and bows as trim Edith Ostlere, a white woman with dark hair in a low bun, wearing a white lacy dress with a v-neckline
Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

started a #wikipedia article on London-born actress, singer, dancer, pianist, Doris Patston (1904-1957): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Patston @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup #Broadway @guildhallschool@bird.makeup #Islington #TheMuny

Doris Patston, from a 1925 publication; a young white woman with bobbed dark hair, wearing a head scarf and a costume with bare shoulders Doris Patston, from a 1957 obituary; a smiling white woman with curly dark hair Doris Patston, from a photo in the New York Public Library Digital Collections; a white woman with curly ark hair, wearing a sweater with a boat-style neck
Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

started a new #wikipedia article on singer Phyllis La Fond (born about 1875?), or maybe Felicia Barasco, or Phyllis Barasco, or Felice Valbuena.... but the article could still use some hard details about her birth, death, name, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_La_Fond @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup

Phyllis Barasco, from an 1897 publication; a white woman with long dark curly hair, wearing a low-cut dress with flowers along the neckline, and a jeweled hair ornament Phyllis La Fonde, from a publication in the 1910s; a white woman with dark curly hair, wearing a light top with a deep square neckline Phyllis LaFond, a white woman with dark hair in a bouffant updo, wearing a low-cut dress and a strand of dark beads Felicia Barasco, a young white woman with loose dark hair, in a round frame; she has her eyes cast upward
Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

started two #wikipedia articles today: Berta Ochsner (1896-1942) was a dancer and choreographer based in #Chicago, who also wrote poetry and plays and music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_Ochsner Her mother Marion Mitchell Ochsner (1857-1932) was president of the National Federation of Music Clubs during WWI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Mitchell_Ochsner @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup #Baraboo @uwmadison@birb.stream @augustana_il@bird.makeup #clubwomen #DanceHistory

Bertha (Berta) Ochsner, from the 1920 yearbook of the University of Wisconsin; a young white woman with dark hair, wearing a middy blouse with a dark scarf Marion Mitchell Ochsner, from a 1917 publication; a sixty-ish white woman with grey hair in an updo, wearing glasses and blouse with a square neckline
Penny Richards
@PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

It always makes sense to try and make life less difficult for yourself and others--but especially right now. Take extra care of your health; take extra care of your relationships; take extra care of your stuff (so you don't have to buy more stuff or do without something important). Learn some new skills that will help with all those projects. Pay people well for helping you. Share what you can. Don't panic or be rash; you might achieve more by thinking and taking extra care.