We try to shine a light on our ancestors.
We have a long history of going to Farmers Markets, primarily the King Street Farmers Market in Wilmington, Delaware. Generations of Websters, Connells, Talleys, and Rotthouses have loaded produce into wagons or trucks to take to the market 2 or more times each week. John Webster took truckloads of produce in season. A truckload …
Have I told you the story of the Thanksgiving turkey that tried to slip away? For much of history, women have been hidden, passed over, and their stories untold. Rachel Emma Baker almost slips past us to the unknown. But what we do know of her story tugs on my heart, and it is a …
In Honor of Women’s History Month: meet Louisa Schulmeister (1839-1912) In my lineage of strong women, I am fortunate to have the German ancestors who uprooted themselves to try for a new life on a new continent. They were smart, talented, capable, and people of good heart. They were, in many respects, ordinary people. They …
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden In many ways, I think my family has always seen the farm as a large flower garden. And they have expressed their love of the ground and love of life through flowers. …
Although women make up 51% of the world’s population, and 43% of all farm workers, and grow more than half of the world’s food, little is heard of our women farmers. The land passed to the son of the family and the women have been invisible. Today, I am talking about a woman who …
Mary Pauline Connell Webster So many family stories are told from the father’s point of view. Particularly in farming. In my family, I am fortunate to have a long line of strong women who stood in equal partnership with the men in the family and brought highly valued skills to the family and to the business …
In Honor of Women’s History Month, I present my grandmother: Rachel Louise Rotthouse Webster Rachel Louise Rotthouse In addition to honoring those women who have changed the world, I think it is important to honor those women who have been so important in our individual lives. I present to you Rachel Louise Rotthouse, who married …
