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Sunday, July 23, 2006

"We seek not rest but transformation.
We are dancing through each other
as doorways."
~Marge Piercy

The great female actor, Charlotte Sauders
Cushman was born this day in 1816. Best
known for her Romeo and Hamlet. She was
the first of our tribe to be elected into the
Hall of Fame of Great Americans in 1915.
Good friend and writer Geraldine Jewsbury
said that she base her novel, "The Half Sister"
(published 1848) on Ms. Cushman.