In the list of ancestral women last month, I included a distant relation because her story jumped out at me as I’ve been working on the Lincoln lineage book (yes, I’m still in the second revision!).
It's interesting what connects a reader to a story. You'd think the connection would be that she was a woman. Or perhaps that she lived in Boston for a time. But no, it was the fishing weights in her skirt. I lived in the Netherlands for about a year and rode a bicycle in a skirt. I used weights and I used a clothespin tied to the frame. I wonder if Dr. Green used saddlebags to carry her medical bag or was it strapped on a carrying rack on the back or put it in a basket on the front?
I wish I could find more pictures of her. There almost certainly has to be one of her with her bicycle given the infamy of it at the time. People posed with their signature objects sometimes. The search goes on!
It's interesting what connects a reader to a story. You'd think the connection would be that she was a woman. Or perhaps that she lived in Boston for a time. But no, it was the fishing weights in her skirt. I lived in the Netherlands for about a year and rode a bicycle in a skirt. I used weights and I used a clothespin tied to the frame. I wonder if Dr. Green used saddlebags to carry her medical bag or was it strapped on a carrying rack on the back or put it in a basket on the front?
I wish I could find more pictures of her. There almost certainly has to be one of her with her bicycle given the infamy of it at the time. People posed with their signature objects sometimes. The search goes on!