Sometimes these trying times call for
I like to add 2 TBSP of coffee to the melted butter
Bake for 23 minutes at 350...
Much to my surprise our Rosie meeting on Saturday was featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution! For some reason I can't get the link to work so I am posting a text version of the story from Sunday's paper. I hope you enjoy reading about some of the Rosies I met at the Atlanta Chapter meeting. That is me in the background wearing red, speaking to my new friend Kathleen.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, March 01, 2009
After spending a year designing blueprints for B-29 bombers during World War II, Harriet Frankel had a baby, took a few years off and came back to apply for a job at the Lockheed-Georgia plant in Marietta.
She was turned down.
“They said the war is over and we’re not hiring any women. I was so mad,” Frankel said —- still miffed today at the notion a woman wasn’t good enough to do a man’s job. But she went on to get a job as a commercial artist and eventually ran her own ad agency.
Frankel’s work during the war made her a “Rosie.” She’s now a member of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Rosie the Riveter Association —- an organization dedicated to women who were trailblazers, taking jobs in male-dominated fields when the men went off to war from 1941 to 1945.
She enrolled in a sheet-metal drafting course and then got a wartime job at Georgia Tech creating blueprints for B-29s. The bombers rolled off an assembly line at what was then the Bell Bomber plant in Marietta.
“I was the second woman in the engineering department to do production illustration for the B-29 bomber,” Frankel, now 89, said at a meeting of the Atlanta Rosie chapter Saturday in Decatur.
Frankel said she decided to join the war effort because her husband was “4-F” —- meaning he was rejected for military service because of physical reasons. She said she was determined to represent her family in the war effort.
She worked at Georgia Tech for a year until her pregnant belly “could no longer fit through the turnstiles.”
Atlanta Rosie President Billie Ruth Bird said her members hope to start a program in the schools to teach children about the women and their role in World War II.
National Museum of Patriotism Director Pat Stansbury spoke to the group Saturday. Stansbury said she is working with the group to create a Rosie Day at the museum.
“I’m very excited about the Rosies. Young girls in Atlanta need to know … it’s time for us to stand and time for us to serve,” she said.
It’s getting harder to find living Rosies to tell their story because of their age. But the Atlanta chapter had two this weekend.
At age 19, Kathleen Powell, was one of the youngest town clerks in South Carolina. Powell was an assistant to the town clerk when the war broke out, but then he was drafted.
“I did both jobs and … finally they decided I should take his job,” said Powell, now 88.
She worked there for three years but wanted to do more for the war effort.
“My mom took grease” to a local defense plant, she said. “There were piles of metal stacked in the town. Everybody was involved and wanted to be involved.”
So Powell got on a bus to the air base in Greenville, S.C., and became the cashier in charge of the PX and other money-generating operations at the base. Her husband, Kenneth Powell, whom she met and married after the war, was flying B-17s in the 401st Bomber Group.
She’s excited about promoting the history of Rosies.
“It’s important that we know what we’ve gone through,” Powell said. America’s women, she added, “went in and did what they could do.”
Giorgio Armani...the man is a true empire...
dress designer, perfumer, and now home furnishings designer:
Giorgio Armani casa
...But it is a sublime and pure house
The simplicity of rough linen overstuffed pillows and sea grass mats
all enveloped by the changing blues of sea and sky.
Inside, the delicately arched walls do not need any artifice or decoration.
The thick walls and small windows protect from the sun the heat and the wind.
It is a calming place. Perfect for rest. For inspiration.
Adorned in the simplest of materials, wood, fabric of cotton, straw,
and the volcanic rock...which the whole island is made of
Serene.
A newer part of the home is quite modern
fitted with some of his home furnishing line.
square. simple.
well, hello crocodile...
photos: Cote Maison
Oh... to have such peace to retreat to.
I had a stupid accident Sunday
and am dealing with an ankle with torn ankle ligaments.
So as I sit with soft cast leg raised, covered in ice...
I dream...of places on small volcanic Islands between
Sicily and Tunisia.
could be a lot worse, eh?
Have a wonderful Tuesday...
There has always been something comforting about listening to Paul Harvey. His shows were informative and I loved the personal advertising but the greatest thing about listening to his show was that it was always consistent. You knew you could always count on hearing "the rest of the story" when listening to his show. Whenever driving around and channel surfing if I heard his voice I always stopped to listen. Growing up in the Macon, Georgia area, Paul Harvey aired on a local a.m. radio so it was a show we grew up listening to and hearing his voice has always taken me back to a simpler time - if only for a short while. As an adult I listen to an oldies channel that still airs his program. Paul Harvey, thank you for the "Good Day."
The best part were the views...
While over the top, for me, it had some lovely details...Pecky cypress
Some of the cabinets had a strong chicken wire...
