

It's the birthday in Hanau, Germany, 1786, of WILHELM GRIMM - who


Seafaring families in three memoirs and two novels published in theġ930s, the most popular of which is Silas Crockett, the story of a seaĬaptain and three generations of life on Maine's coast. Hill, Maine (up the coast about 150 miles) in 1887 and wrote about Scenes - huge oil paintings that made him the country's best-known Painting the sea - shipwrecks, storms, fishermen lost in fog, rescue Settled in the village of Prouts Neck, Maine (near Portland) and began Illustrator, sketching the camps of Civil War soldiers for Harpers. Homer was born in Boston in 1836, and started off as an Off with the Louisville Colonels, then played for the Pirates fromġ900-17 where he got the nickname "The Flying Dutchman" byĪnd it's the birthday of painter WINSLOW HOMER, andĬHASE - both of whom captured the coastal life of Maine in their Pittsburgh Pirates, born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania in 1874. It's the birthday of HONUS WAGNER, the great shortstop for the Other women in her Bible study had been meeting regularly and wanted toĭo something to help the education of immigrant Jewish children and to Volunteer organization, in New York City in 1912. It's the anniversary of the founding of HADASSAH, the women's There are huge parades and parties in Trinidad, France, and Italy. "shriving," or becoming pure through the confession of your TUESDAY, a day to let it all hang out before the Lenten seasonīegins tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. Whyte from THE HOUSE OF BELONGING, published by Many Rivers Press
