Tea Time Crimes

In the early 1900’s, Audrey Munson was immortalized in hundreds of works of art, including statues that still decorate the Manhattan Bridge and the New York Public Library. Join us as we delve into the first supermodel’s turbulent life and how the brutal murder of another woman, Julia Wilkins, threw Audrey’s career into life-altering drama. 

Tea of the Day: Tulsi Focus

Sources:

• The Curse of Beauty by James Bone

New York Times Times Machine Articles

• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/02/issue.html
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/02/28/118144050.html?pageNumber=1
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/01/98278633.html?pageNumber=16
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/14/97085521.html?pageNumber=3
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/16/97086351.html?pageNumber=9
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/17/102851783.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/18/112641746.html?pageNumber=1
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/19/102852211.html?pageNumber=1
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/20/102852788.html?pageNumber=1
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/21/102853438.html?pageNumber=1
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/22/102854384.html?pageNumber=10
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/23/98280170.html?pageNumber=8
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/27/102857299.html?pageNumber=13
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/28/102858222.html?pageNumber=7
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/03/30/109331575.html?pageNumber=20
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/04/01/98281295.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/04/05/98283260.html?pageNumber=19
• https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/06/08/97094227.html?pageNumber=17

Helen Ruth Spence, aka “The Swamp Angel,” grew up in a tight-knit rural Arkansas community during the Great Depression. Unfortunately for Helen, the world she knew shattered when she became the only surviving eyewitness to her father’s murder. Helen’s life then became a collection of choices based on her desire for justice and need for safety. A truly unlikely outlaw, Helen Ruth Spence forces us all to ask the question, “What would you do?”

Tea of the Day: Palais de Thé - Big Ben

Sources:

• Title: Daughter of the White River: Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta by Denise White Parkinson
• Audiobook narrated by: S.J. Tucker
• https://onlyinark.com/arkansas-women-bloggers/helen-spence