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“Up at six, dress by gas light, run through by ward &
fling up the windows though the men grumble & shiver; but the air is bad
enough to breed a pestilence & as no notice is taken of our frequent
appeals for better ventilation I must do what I can. Poke at the fire, add
blankets, joke, coax & command, but continue to open doors & windows as
if life depended on it, mine does, & doubtless many another, for a more
perfect pestilence-box than this house I never saw—cold, damp, dirty, full of
vile odors from wounds, kitchens, wash rooms, & stables. No competent head,
male or female, to right matters, & a jumble of good, bad, &
indifferent nurses, surgeons & attendants to complicate the Chaos still
more.
After this
unwelcome progress through my stifling ward I go to breakfast with what
appetite I may…”
--- LMA describing
a typical day as a Civil War nurse, Journal of January, 1863
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EVENTS,
GATHERINGS, HAPPENINGS, CONFERENCES, NEWS, SPOTLIGHT
Congratulations to member,
John Matteson for winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, Eden’s
Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/1331.php
Summer 2008 Programs
at Orchard House: http://www.louisamayalcott.org/pdf/summer2008.pdf
In Memoriam, Madeline Stern Read “Madeline Stern’s Life Story” (Link
to Orchard House)
Minutes from previous LMAS
Business Meetings are available from society secretary, Mary Shelden.
The
The Concord Free Public
Library Web site features a new Historic Buildings site. A page of special
interest to Alcott scholars is found at: www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/BuildingHistories/TownHouse/storyPages/alcott.html;
it features Bronson Alcott and the public school children of Concord at
Concord’s Town House, which served as a center for the Town’s educational
activities.
Announcing “The Portfolio”
The Newsletter of the Louisa May Alcott Society
The Louisa May Alcott Society
newsletter, “The Portfolio,” is published bi-annually in the spring and fall
(usually in April and October).
Please send your Alcott-related news to the LMAS
secretary and newsletter editor, Mary Shelden: send email.