Please join us on Saturday, February 29 at 11am for a presentation on the history of herbal medicine. Medicinal herbalist Tiffany Soska will offer us an interactive presentation including the history of herbal healing, its use today, and hands on learning! Tiffany works with patients and students at both Lourdes and Cooper Medical Centers and is an expert in the field. She is also a fan of our gardens and brings her students to the park!
The presentation will be at the Whitall House. Please RSVP to Jen so we know how many folks to expect! Hope to see you there!
That message came from the James and Ann Whitall House at Red Bank Battlefield, National Park, NJ. I already e-mailed that I would attend. It sounds fascinating and Ann Whitall was a noted herbal healer, by oral history accounts, so I think it will be beneficial to my resumed touring volunteerism this spring.
My nephew and godson, Archie, had his 25th birthday today and since he had the day off and we were both free, I took him to lunch at the Legacy Diner then we went to AAA Hobby Shop, on White Horse Pike in Lawnside because he wanted to work on a model ship. We bought the USS NEW JERSEY because Archie had the good fortune when he was much younger of watching the ship come up the Delaware to port in Camden. Had made him a painting of the ship at night but it was burned in the house fire they suffered three or four hears ago. We went to Cam. Co. Hist. Society afterwards and Archie's favorite exhibits were the 1940 33mm film projector and the Blacksmith exhibit. Mine was, as always, the sewing exhibit and the one room school exhibit.
We were greeted by the always charming and gracious Bonny Beth Elwell and I bought Archie a couple of books, Waterways of Camden County, and Rambles down the Highways and Byways by Charles Boyer. Archie and I have had a couple of remarkable history adventures over the years and it was a great way to spend the otherwise dreary rainy day celebrating a momentous birthday!
Happy Trails,
Jo Ann
ps. I believe I mentioned it before but there is a great program on
turning flax into linen coming up. Both the aforementioned herbal healing program, and the flax into linen program are of special interest to me as I resume my volunteering at the James and Ann Whitall House this Spring. There is a large walking spinning wheel in the room called Ann's parlor in the Whitall House and I will be glad to have more information to offer visitors on that important part of the life of a Colonial woman.
- Straw into Gold, Flax fiber into Linen - Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM
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