Posts Tagged ‘Ernest Thompson Seton’
Remembering Ernest Thompson Seton: Writer, Artist, Naturalist, and Cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America
“When Ernest turned 21, his dad handed him a bill for $537.50 – the grand total for every dime he had spent raising Ernest, including the fee from the delivery doctor for his birth in 1860. Ernest paid his father and then never spoke to him again.” October 23, 1946 On this day, the English-born…
Read MoreOctober 23, 2019 An Inspiring Home Landscape by a Forest, Budburst.org, Ludwig Leichhardt, Annie Lorrain Smith, François-André Michaux, Bonnie Templeton, Neltje Blanchan, New Vegetable Garden Techniques by Joyce Russell, Harvesting Black Walnuts, and Ernest Thompson Seton
Today we celebrate the young botanist who disappeared in Australia 171 years ago and the pioneering female lichenologist who worked for the British Museum but was never officially on the payroll. We’ll learn about the French botanist who had a life-long love affair with the trees of North America and the Los Angeles woman who…
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