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Provisions from the will of Tasha Tudor
Third: Cash
Legacies
I give the
following cash legacies:
1. To
my daughter, EFNER TUDOR HOLMES the sum of One Thousand and no/100 ($1,000.00)
Dollars, if she survives me.
2. To
my daughter, BETHANY TUDOR PHOENIX, the sum of One Thousand and no/100
($1,000.00) Dollars, if she survives me.
3. To
AMELIA STAUFFER of 2121 N. Pevee Road, Ada,
Ohio 45810
the sum of Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars, if she survives me.
4. To
my grandchild, LAURA V. DENNIS, the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars, if
she survives me.
5. To
my grandchild, HANNAH TUDOR, the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, if
she survives me.
6. To
my grandchild, BENJAMIN TUDOR, the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, if
he survives me.
7. To
my grandchild, SETH WINSLOW TUDOR, the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars,
if he survives me.
8. To
my grandchild, JAN TUDOR, the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, if she [sic] survives me.
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Remembering Tasha Tudor
June eighteenth marks the first year's anniversary of the
death of Tasha Tudor. We send you our readers
and customers kind wishes at what may be a somber remembrance. We know that many of you set aside a special
time last year for just yourselves and a cup of tea and recollection. We urge you to take time again to appreciate
the beauty around you. Think of your
own plantings and the private joy they bring you. Like Thomas Merton, you can see the world as
no one else does and contemplate your exquisite solitude, if only for a few
minutes. "All ... need enough silence and
solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self
to be heard at least occasionally."
- http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/merton.html
Consider adding a
special flower to your garden to remember the life of Tasha Tudor
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Tasha Tudor's Summer Scenes Stay with Us
We looked through our books this week and were reminded how important summer was to Tasha Tudor. A quick glance identified at least 50 titles in which summer looms large if not being the main topic of the book. Consider only these four titles: The Secret Garden, A Basket of Herbs, The New England Butt'ry Shelf Cookbook, The Lord is My Shepherd. They share the flowers, the light and the glories of the brightest days of the year. They also instruct us in growing those flowers as well as giving cooking tips for preparing favorite dishes - one of the great culinary joys of summer.
Tudor's first two manuscripts - still unpublished - center on Summer. New England Wildflowers pictures page after page of flowers in bloom across the Connecticut countryside she knew in the 1930s. Hittie's Almanac is the first of several trips throughout the New England year. Tudor illustrated each of them with the flowers and events of summer. You see that theme expanded in her mid-life Around the Year (1957), and later in A Time to Keep (1977). Rose bowers, hollyhocks, honeysuckle, black-eyed Susans and goldenrod embellish illustrations in both books. First Delights (1966) and Tasha Tudor's Seasons of Delight (1986) feature more summer reveries, and in the latter title, even bring us to visit Tudor's own Vermont home. The ultimate visit comes in the Richard Brown photographs of The Private World of Tasha Tudor and Tasha Tudor's Gardens. These very personal visits to Corgi Cottage show us Tudor in her gardens, taking us for a private walk with her along its crowded paths. Look carefully at pages 26 and 42 of The Private World to appreciate Tudor's skill in "painting with plants." She used colors in her garden to embody peace. Her artistry in flowers is abundantly evident on the endpapers of A Time to Keep as well. What a skill she had ! Her artistry comes to life in the visual DVD Take Joy! (1996).
Finally, we've often praised Wings from the Wind (1964) as being one of our favorite Tudor books. The title page is a paean to wild fruitful fields and a testament to an artist in full control of her pallet. Tudor evokes the marvels of summer on many pages throughout the book. If you don't own a copy, have your library borrow a copy for you. The book is a pleasure to take with tea any day of the year. It's a good one to share with children and grandchildren, too.
We close with "The Four Sweet Months" by Robert Herrick, pp. 68-69 from Wings from the Wind.
First, April, she with mellow showers
Opens the way for early flowers;
Then after her comes smiling May,
In a more sweet and rich array;
Next enters June, and brings us more
Gems than those two that went before;
Then, lastly, July comes and she
More wealth brings in than all those three.
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Planning a Summer Trip
through Massachusetts ?
"Every year visitors from around the world stroll across the Bridge of Flowers and enjoy the beauty of this unusual garden - the only one of its kind in the world. Last year more than 24,000 visitors signed the guest book. The Bridge of Flowers is meticulously tended by the Shelburne Falls Women's Club. Over 500 varieties of flowers, vines and shrubs assure a 400-foot span of continual blooming from the pastel tulips of April through the last blazing chrysanthemums in October." http://www.shelburnefalls.com/attractions/bridge.html
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