Shirley Wajda

@stwajda.bsky.social

Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. US material & visual culture, museum studies, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects. shirleywajda.com

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

On what would have been my mother's 99th birthday, I share an image of her. Taken by my father on their 1968 trip to the Bahamas--a trip won by my father's hard work as a kitchen salesman. When Mom died in 1994, this was the first image my dad, brothers, & I thought of to share in our grief & love.

Image of a woman seated in a passenger airliner seat. Window curtains behind her at right; seat at left. She wears a white dress with embroidered stand-up collar and front zipper. Her hair is styled in a small beehive. She, with a half smile, looks intently up at the camera. Her face is partially in shadows.

So grateful for this fantastic Booklist review for An Inconvenient Woman! “Historian Merritt’s insightful, engaging narrative effortlessly folds in family anecdotes and excerpts…This well-documented and perceptive tribute aptly humanizes a visionary and fearless woman.”😍😍😍

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