#nancy lawson

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Nancy Lawson was a free Black Bostonian woman who lived through the decades leading up to the American Civil War. While originally from Maine, she moved to Massachusetts and married a clothing merchant. The couple were connected to the Millerite, a religious movement led by Reverend William Miller, a Baptist minister who predicted the end of the world in 1844. While an eccentric, many of his followers, quiet possibly the Lawsons among them, made up the ranks of abolitionists and the Millerites advocated equality across races and genders.

This portrait was painted by Maine artist William Matthew Prior in 1843.

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Portraits in Eve's Bayou

Just a quick historical tidbit about a pair of portraits I spotted during my most recent Eve's Bayou rewatch.

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Nancy Lawson, William Matthew Prior, 1843

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A Portrait of Nancy Lawson by William Matthew Prior 1843

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Native Plants and Depoliticizing the Wildlife Garden - Humane Gardener

We can’t take care of the planet in the long term unless we take care of each other now. And we can’t take care of each other in the long term unless we take care of the planet now. I believe in human rights, and I welcome the other citizens of this earth with open arms. I believe in the rights of our fellow species to make a home here, too, and I welcome them with the plants they need to…

Native Plants and Depoliticizing the Wildlife Garden - Humane Gardener

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The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson

I stumbled across this book in the Garden Wild subreddit as a resource for beginners to learn how to “re-wild” their homes. Lawson makes the case for reintroducing native plants to your yard and how to accept the wildlife that, hopefully, follow. She provides a very compassionate perspective to the wildlife trying to live with us, which is an unexpected highlight for me.

My favorite part of the book is the first chapter where she provides a process for adding native plants that simplifies a thing that can otherwise be incredibly overwhelming and open-ended.

The (very) short version of the process is to select twelve wildflowers for your site. Choose four for each season of bloom so you get good coverage for most of the year. Then, round out your space with shrubs, grasses, and nut trees. There are extra things that the book asks you to consider, but really, if you want that much info, you should just hunt it down from your library. It’s totally worth the read!

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Tiny Navajo Reads: The Humane Gardener

Tiny Navajo Reads: The Humane Gardener - come see what new information I've gained and what I'm using it for in my latest #bookreview

The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife by Nancy Lawson ◆ ◆ ◆ ◇ ◇

I’m looking for ways to make my backyard a more habitable place not only for birds and bees but for the bugs that get eaten by the birds. I want my backyard to be a place where I can go and sit there and relax after a long day of work and right now it isn’t quite that. This book was a good insight into how…

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Convention Girls (1978)