The Inner Life of Trees

September 30, 2018 at 10:30 am

It is impossible to not notice the trees this time of year…and yet, what would they tell us if we could really listen?

This Day in Unitarian Universalist History April 19
1889 – Emily Taft Douglas was born in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Chicago, she became statewide organizer for the Illinois League of Women Voters. She married Paul Howard Douglas, a senator from Illinois (1948-1967) and was elected to the U.S. House of representatives herself in 1944. Her publications include Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future (1970). Douglas was president of the Unitarian Women’s Alliance, moderator of the American Unitarian Association, and trustee of Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Read more about Emily Taft Douglas at: www.HarvardSquareLibrary.org - the digital library of Unitarian Universalism. [Please note that some sources list Douglas’s birthdate as April 10th and others give the 19th; for the purposes of this calendar’s consistency, we will leave her on the 19th. -Director.] The post April 19 first appeared on Harvard Square Library.

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