annabel lee

[annabel lee @aharbo]

So glad I live in Bob Dylan times. Happy 85th, Bob.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@pjlavish Cars and pollution are the reasons it's subtropical to begin with.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@simonetheepony There are twelve theaters in Brooklyn. AMC is for the suburbs.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@thinkorswim0712 @PEWilliams_ There are 5 different subway lines on 125th.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@SurlyTemple_666 @PEWilliams_ Yeah, I cringed at that. Like it's a badge of honor or something.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@andruyeung Life long New Yorker. It never gets old.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@alcibiades500 @ericadamsfornyc PhD? Read a book. Communism is not Democratic Socialism. And you are probably not a New Yorker. So mind your own little corner.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@ericadamsfornyc Go away. You were a blight on our beautiful city. Your comments are not wanted or needed.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

Ominous sunset yesterday.

[Anna Gener @agenersurrell]

Bon dia
Marina, Barcelona, 1896
Pablo Picasso

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Hitler's Führerbunker began as a ballroom extension to a building called the Old Chancelley to which an air raid shelter was added, eventually transformed into a luxurious bunker 50 feet underground that could be hermetically sealed to protect the VIP occupants from chemical weapons.
T***p's fanatic emphasis on ballroom/bunker might indicate that he anticipates, or will precipitate, a nuclear exchange of some sort, from which he, his staff, & (probably) selected billionaire donors might be protected.
otherwise, it is hard to explain how important this ballroom has suddenly become.
#WhenIsABallroomNotABallroom?

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@NDs7306 @ericadamsfornyc @mrddmia Release the Epstein files.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@ericadamsfornyc Please. I thought we were done with you.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Wait... SS just let Trump stand in the wings and "watch" because he was interested in what was going down?

Is that in their job description?

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1893, NYC - A woman in her mid-twenties walks through streets so crowded with humanity they hum like a living organism.

She's following a child. A girl, maybe ten years old, who burst into her nursing class that afternoon begging for help. Her mother is sick. There's no money for a doctor. Will someone please come?

So Lillian Wald goes.

She climbs narrow staircases in a tenement building where the air itself feels tired. The girl opens a door, and Lillian steps into a room that will rewrite the rest of her life.

Ten people. Three hundred twenty-five square feet. A woman lying in a bed that barely qualifies as one, surrounded by peeling walls and the kind of desperation that doesn't announce itself with noise, it just sits there, heavy and inescapable.

Lillian had grown up comfortable. Books on the shelves. A father who ran a thriving business. She'd been bright enough to apply to Vassar at sixteen, turned away only because of her age. When she finally entered nursing school at twenty-two, she excelled. Methodical. Caring. Brilliant at what she did.

But nothing prepared her for this.

She leaves that apartment and enrolls in medical school the next morning. Then she does something even more radical. She quits medical school and moves to the Lower East Side. Not to study poverty. To live inside it.

In 1893, she and her colleague Mary Brewster invent a profession that didn't exist: the public health nurse. Someone who brings healthcare directly into homes, into the places hospitals will never reach and the people who can't afford to ask for help.

Two years later, the Henry Street Settlement opens its doors.

By 1913, it's become something almost unimaginable. Seven buildings. Ninety-two nurses. Two hundred thousand home visits every single year.

But Lillian Wald doesn't stop at nursing. She walks into meetings with presidents. She helps create the U.S. Children's Bureau in 1912, the first federal agency dedicated to children. She co-founds movements to end child labor and protect working women. When the Spanish Flu tears through America in 1918, she leads the Red Cross response, mobilizing an army of nurses she's spent decades training.

She built all of it because one afternoon, a frightened child asked for help and Lillian Wald refused to look away.

Lillian Wald didn't just respond to that moment in 1893. She let it consume her in the best possible way. She moved into the neighborhood, lived among the families she served, and refused to accept that zip codes should determine who gets to survive preventable illness. The Henry Street Settlement became a command center for social change, offering not just medical care but education, job training, and community organizing.

When she opened the Settlement's doors to early NAACP meetings, she risked her funding and her reputation in a deeply segregated America. When World War I created a nursing shortage, she helped professionalize the field and expand training programs nationwide. The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, which she co-founded, still operates today and remains one of the largest nonprofit home healthcare organizations in America.

Here's something remarkable: Lillian Wald never married, never had children of her own, but she's responsible for changing childhood in America. Before her advocacy, five-year-olds worked in coal mines. There was no federal oversight of child welfare. She didn't just dream of a better system; she walked into the White House and made Theodore Roosevelt believe in it too.

When she died in 1940, Carnegie Hall held her memorial. Twenty-five hundred people came. The profession she named, the agencies she founded, and the model of community-based healthcare she pioneered are all still here, more than 130 years later, quietly saving lives in the same neighborhoods where a young nurse once followed a frightened child up a narrow staircase and refused to forget what she saw.

© Women Stories

#drthehistories

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@yourauntemma It's not a bombshell. We all saw it.

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@MysterySolvents She's a scary looking woman, harkening back to Leona Helmsley.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

tip for younger reporters: point your camera at the thing that’s happening

[annabel lee @aharbo]

@mark_slapinski He'll even start a war.