Liberty's Birds #9: Mulberry Tree

 

Liberty's Birds #9: 

Mulberry Tree by Denniele Bohannon, 

the last of nine bird appliques for 2025

Sara's journal:in the house on Mount Oread

Alexander Gardner photograph from Mount Oread, Fall, 1867

 Gardner was told the stone wall in the foreground is the remains 

of a fort from Territorial days 20 years earliier.

After Sara's first rather primitive house in Lawrence, Kansas was destroyed in May, 1856,

 she and Charles may have moved into this stone house photographed

 in 1867 by Alexander Gardner. We are looking at the rear view. 

The street now called 14th runs on the other side.

The house is still there next to The Wheel bar, viewed from the side and

 remodeled in bungalow style.

Side view from 14th

Mulberry Tree by Elsie Ridgley

Charles & Sara's major building project was a house across the river where they lived the rest of their lives. They never had children and much of their estate went to the University of Kansas....

...Including "Oakridge." 

The University--- never dedicated to preservation--- let it

fall into neglect and Oakridge is long gone.

Mulberry Tree by Becky Collis

In the new house far from Mount Oread (at top across the river here) 

they lived a long and happy life together. We could

 follow them through the ups and downs of his political career 

and her lifelong devotion to his causes and memory

----but this is a story about the first house on the rocky ridge, 

where rattlesnakes still sun themselves.

The Block

Mulberry Tree 

The inspiration has seen better days.

A pair in a mulberry tree for the Robinsons.

Mulberry Tree by Susannah Pangelinan

She continued the block applique into the sashing.

Susannah's finished top!

Becky Collis's nine blocks

Denniele's

Elsie's