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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Musical Accompaniment: The Very Thought of You by Billie Holiday.
The weekend is over! Which means back to work for many of us. Who knows though? It may turn out to be a momentous week.
Bayard Morgan Wootten’s photograph called Mountain Boy Selling Apples was taken around 1920 in rural North Carolina. I bet this little fellow was amazingly successful. How could anyone say no to him?
Bayard Morgan Wootten Photographic Collection, UNC Chapel Hill
depends on what you mean by momentous!
Such a precious little boy! One reason that generation was so successful and the “greatest generation” was their work ethic from a very young age. Higher education was rarely reachable due to helping their family.
Yes, that’s true! I don’t know why it’s true but I think having less made people more generous too. That’s a trait I work to cultivate in myself and admire in others!
I could never say no to him. Now whether I would eat the apple is another question. Those on the table look wormy to me.
Yes 😂 I would have a similar caveat!