matchmaker

Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull was founder and president of the Widows' and Widowers' Club, which introduced bereaved men and women to each other in hope of making new matches. "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack," said Stull. (Time Magazine, 12 November 1934) www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748117,00.html?...

I started an entry in Wikipedia for her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelle_Brooke_Stull

She has a rather infectious smile :)

Richard Norton torontoist.com/2012/04/historicist-how-not-to-marry-a-mil... I'm no good with Wikipedia, but here's a whole bunch more info for you. Apparently, she was a con artist!

WOW!!! What a lovely photograph of the mother and her son. I could look at that all day and marvel at the image. A poet in his finery with the loving mother by his side, dressed in their day to day clothes and posing for the gentleman/woman with the camera. Look at the hat on the ground, at the weather beaten skin on their faces and hands, the long strong fingers of the man and the well worn shoes on the pair of them? Magic!

Swordscookie And her wedding ring has become very loose on her fingers as they've shrunk with age... Did check to see if we have a copy of that poem in our collections, but if we do, it's not individually catalogued. Maybe in our collections of street poems and ballads.

On Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Brigid's_Well it says that a wandering poet once wrote - "On St Brigid’s Eve, as night fell, My mother and I went to Saint Brigid’s Well, Where the candles do burn and the great walls do shine on the graves of the dead and the vaults of O’Brien" Could those be the words of our Poet friend above? It would be great to find out and get the entire text.

great old photography ...

Swordscookie Wouldn't that be amazing?