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Barbara Bush’s funeral: Why Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton will be thereby wpjljron Saturday, April 21st, 2018.Barbara Bush’s funeral: Why Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton will be thereA lot about being a first lady is unofficial. The title is invented, the job unpaid and the mandate unclear: Be fashionable but not flashy, be involved but not interfering. Pick a cause, make a mark but not too much of a mark. When first lady Melania Trump attends Barbara Bush’s funeral on Saturday in […] A lot about being a first lady is unofficial. The title is invented, the job unpaid and the mandate unclear: Be fashionable but not flashy, be involved but not interfering. Pick a cause, make a mark but not too much of a mark. ....
SUMMARY Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the First Lady of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865). She was manifestly ill-suited for this role because of her family background, education, personality, physical appearance, and her fifteen-year antebellum residence in Washington, D.C. (She once declared that the worst years of her life were spent in the Confederate capital at Richmond while the happiest were in Washington.) A native of the urban South, she always preferred the city to the country, and after her husband died in 1889, she moved to New York, where she resided until her death in 1906. ....
Elizabeth Keckley, Thirty Years a Slave, Four Years in the White House By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Published March 4, 2021 Elizabeth Keckley (Courtesy Photo) A Black woman’s memoir published 153 years ago still tops Amazon’s books sales chart. The historical work was perhaps the bluntest and most controversial of its era. Keckley detailed her life as a slave who purchased her freedom and then worked in the White House for two U.S. first ladies – Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, and Varina Davis, the wife of President Jefferson Davis. ADVERTISEMENT A seamstress to both Davis and Lincoln, Keckley practically lived in the White House during the Civil War. ....
Curious objects: Discussing Craft and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Sammy Dalati Glenn Adamson Glenn Adamson seems to be everywhere these days. He’s co-curator of an exhibition currently on view at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas (see p. 94), and of another at the New York modern and contemporary design gallery R and Company. Beyond his usual labors for The Magazine ANTIQUES (see his Critical Thinking/ Difficult Issues column, p. 16), he’s been churning out weekly Zoom interviews with leading figures from the world of design since this time last year. And on top of all that he’s written a book. ....