Tag Archives: New York Botanical Garden

Her Idea!

Posted on May 27, 2013 by PennyColman

During our marvelous visit yesterday to the New York Botanical Garden, a docent told me, “Founding it was her idea but her husband gets all the credit,” the “her” being Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton. Linda photographed me reading the plaque … Continue reading →

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Connections, ECS/SBA

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Penny Colman

My dear, dear friend Annie Unverzagt & I were roommates in graduate school 44 years ago! We went on to have flip-flop life trajectories: I had children first, then a career; she had a career and then children. We kept … Continue reading →

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