#cushman

[frenchcurious]

Cushman Truckste 1958. - source Bring a Trailer.

[kemetic-dreams]

Choctaw

Horatio Bardwell Cushman wrote in his 1899 book “History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians”: “The tradition of the Choctaws . . . told of a race of giants that once inhabited the now State of Tennessee, and with whom their ancestors fought when they arrived in Mississippi in their migration from the west. … Their tradition states the Nahullo (race of giants) was of wonderful stature.

Cushman said “Nahullo” came to be used to describe all white people, but it originally referred specifically to a giant white race with whom the Choctaw came into contact when they first crossed the Mississippi River. The Nahullo were said to be cannibals whom the Choctaw killed whenever the opportunity arose.

[misforgotten2]

The doctor told him he needed a pacemaker. Later his widow sold it, it had only 18 miles on the odometer.

Collier's - March 16th 1956

[detournementsmineurs]

Bella Ramsey et Joe Alwyn dans "Catherine Called Birdy" de Lena Dunham - inspiré du roman éponyme de Karen Cushman (1994) - octobre 2022.

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[permanentstyle]

https://www.permanentstyle.com/2020/09/clutch-cafe-a-guide-to-my-favourite-brands.html

Clutch Cafe: A guide to my favourite brands

[beepilot]

san francisco july 26, 1959

taken by charles w. cushman

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Pauline Cushman (1833–1893)

Pauline Cushman was a Union spy during the American Civil War.

Born in New Orleans, Pauline's family later relocated to Michigan. At the age of eighteen, she traveled to New York City to become a stage actress. Pauline would again travel to New Orleans where she performed in a theater, met and married her husband, Charles Dickinson. When the Civil War broke out, Dickinson joined the Union army as a musician, and died of dysentery in 1862.

Returning to the stage after her husband’s death in 1862, Cushman was a struggling actress employed in a Louisville playhouse. In a play that required her character to give a toast, she was dared on one occasion to toast Jefferson Davis. She agreed, but gained the permission of the federal provost marshal first.

Perceived now as a self-proclaimed Southern sympathiser, Cushman was later expelled from the theater. But not before the chance to spy for the Union came along. She was approached by Union officers proposing she become a spy. In lace and petticoats, she became a camp follower of the Confederate army in Kentucky and Tennessee. Her allure and beauty aided her in obtaining information that would be of value to the federal army.

Yet the frustrated actress soon proved to be wanting in spying as well. She aroused suspicions and was finally caught with secret papers.

General Bragg had her tried, and a military court sentenced her to hang, whereupon her health broke and her sentence was delayed. Yet military operations intervened. Bragg moved his army and left Cushman behind.

Rescued by Yankees at Shelbyville, Tennessee, she traveled north to much acclaim. President Lincoln made her an honorary major, and wearing her new uniform, she lectured about her clandestine adventures behind rebel lines.

After the war, Cushman’s fame mostly ebbed. She tried acting again and married for the second and third times. Her last marriage ended in separation. For an illness, she began taking opium and died of an intentional overdose at sixty. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic paid tribute by burying her with military honors in their cemetery in San Francisco.