I commented recently on the book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney — How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel. At that point I hadn’t read it, but now, through a generous gift, I have. Read. This. Book. Dr. Martin Couney was mysterious because he changed his name several [...]
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Silk or ???
More on that wedding dress. I washed it in Dawn soap and then let it soak in a diluted solution of a commercial product that uses hydrogen peroxide and is not named Oxyclean. This took out a lot of the brown discoloration in the fabric. I was thinking of it as linen at that moment, [...]
My mother’s wedding dress
I don’t know why I have it, or when I acquired it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of her wearing it. And I didn’t think, Wedding Dress, when I saw some linen stuffed into a small plastic bag. But it has a label. I took it out, spread it on a table, [...]
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