Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Midwife's Tale

Movie shown to help us understand the Country of the Pointed Firs called A Midwife's Tale.
Women left few documents for us to study to understand the world they inhabited. This Diary tells a story among the overwhelming quantity of details.
Feel free to peruse the origional diary and use tools to help make the pages more readable by clicking on this page from January 23 - February 7, 1785.

Page of Martha Ballard's Diary

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