@emory-f8.bsky.socialBorn in Germany, she immigrated to the United States. She eventually married lighthouse keeper John Walker, and the family moved to Robbins Reef, an offshore lighthouse standing on a dangerous underwater ledge about a mile from Staten Island.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialDuring her years there, she maintained the light, raised her children, endured storms and winters that could leave the lighthouse surrounded by ice, and personally participated in rescues that she estimated saved about 50 people from drowning.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialDid you know?
In the Victorian era, a widowed lighthouse keeper repeatedly rowed into the dangerous waters of New York Harbor to rescue people from drowning?
Kate Walker spent decades at the isolated Robbins Reef Lighthouse.
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May your reading of this book be as enjoyable as mine. This author is a superb writer.
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@theghostmonk.bsky.socialYeah, I'll believe you. 'For medical use' indeed.
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@atlasboscrispa.bsky.socialCharles Palmer House (b.1890)
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Book 2 Tailored Truths. Margaret Law is 16 years old, on her own in #Dundee What jobs does she do to keep herself fed and sheltered? Does being a lady's maid offer her opportunities to experience new places and new people?
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Begin with Novice Threads. Margaret Law is denied teacher-training but is tutoring in a dysfunctional Edinburgh household better than living with equally estranged parents?
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@piespuddings.bsky.socialChester cake, was apparently invented by Mr Thomas, a confectioner in Chester, who encased a large fruit cake with pastry for the birthday of George IV in 1821.
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@lillylilly60.bsky.social5-Star Amazon review - A Lovely Book!
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This is a captivating novel which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I recommend it to all lovers of historical fiction.
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@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe contrasted wealthy Victorians searching for exciting new foods with poor agricultural laborers surviving on extremely monotonous diets.
He believed insects could provide inexpensive additional food for working-class families.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe particularly favored vegetable-feeding species, which he regarded as clean and wholesome.
Agricultural pests were especially attractive to him because eating them could accomplish two things at once: provide additional food and reduce the insects destroying crops.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe even pointed to people who ate cheese containing cheese mites and dismissed the mites because they were "only cheese."
By the same reasoning, Holt joked, caterpillars that lived entirely upon cabbage could be considered "only cabbage."
@emory-f8.bsky.socialVictorians already ate oysters, lobsters, shrimp, snails, and other creatures that could appear equally strange if people hadn't been accustomed to thinking of them as food.
He argued that there was nothing inherently disgusting about eating an insect.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe seriously believed that Britain's prejudice against eating insects was irrational and that properly prepared insects could become fashionable delicacies.
His book began by confronting what he considered the biggest obstacle: disgust.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialDid you know?
In the Victorian era, an author tried to convince people that insects belonged at elegant dinner parties, complete with multi-course menus featuring beetle larvae, moths, and grasshoppers?
Vincent M. Holt published a small book titled Why Not Eat Insects?
