{"id":81,"date":"2008-09-18T22:43:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T22:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:43:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T22:43:55","slug":"happy-helen-foster-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/09\/18\/happy-helen-foster-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Helen Foster Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Happy Helen Foster Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/peo-02-0281-hdf.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/peo-02-0281-hdf.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"448\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Foster outside 6 Park Street, Boston, circa 1935<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>September 24 marks the birthday of one of Kingston\u2019s notables, Helen Foster.\u00a0 Born in 1900, she studied art extensively and eventually became the first female commercial artist in Boston. She lent her talents to her hometown, designing the town seal and town quilt, collaborating on the town flag, and serving on the Council on Aging.\u00a0 For more on Helen\u2019s life, <a href=\"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?page_id=79\" target=\"_self\">click here for the biography <\/a>written for the Kingston Arts Festival \u201cPast Masters\u201d exhibit, which featured\u00a0 Helen\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>One of the LHR\u2019s long-term, part-time assistant amateur archivists, who knows Helen only through indexing the extensive diaries Helen kept throughout her life, had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was very deep, an exceptional woman.\u00a0 Her description of the world she saw is an explosion of detail and color.\u00a0 I can see from just her words the fields of her childhood, every flower, tree and rock. When she writes about the spontaneous parade she saw at the end of World War I, the soldiers march off the pages and the flags fly high. I am always moved by her words. What an amazing, talented artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This kind of connection \u2014 getting to know someone you never had the chance to meet in real life \u2014 is one of the special things about a local history collection as rich as ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Helen Foster Day! September 24 marks the birthday of one of Kingston\u2019s notables, Helen Foster.\u00a0 Born in 1900, she studied art extensively and eventually became the first female commercial artist in Boston. She lent her talents to her hometown, designing the town seal and town quilt, collaborating on the town flag, and serving on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/09\/18\/happy-helen-foster-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Helen Foster Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[27,39,176],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-artists","tag-birthdays","tag-notables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}