Kimberly Tilley rescues forgotten stories of early twentieth century America from obscurity. Her books, Grievous Deeds (2023); Has it Come to This? (2022), Cold Heart (2020), and The Poisoned Glass (2019) were Amazon category best-sellers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
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I love this unusual picture of a smiling young woman. She’s posed in the foliage in a photograph taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, circa 1900. The girl was identified as Bella Flanigan.
I looked for Bella in a genealogy database and found one entry who might be a match. She lived in Clarksville, east of Cincinnati, and was about 24 years old in 1900.
Bella Flanigan certainly is emoting joy in being photographed. Ewing captured an adorable young woman, pleased to be alive.
The given name “Bella” is related to the Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese word for “Beautiful.” But in the case of Bella Flanigan, her surname is Irish. Nonetheless, her given name is apropos.
She does seem to emote joy! She looks like a pleasant kind of person!
she looks like a good sort