We're so pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Tasha Tudor Day Giveaway! Matty Holder from North Carolina said, Thank you again for the wonderful surprise!! I am painting my house a gorgeous ash violet and just sat down to rest a minute! I’m so excited I believe I can finish it all today! As … Continue reading Winners Announced for Tasha Tudor Day 2022 Giveaway
Image from Tasha's 1979 book Springs of Joy In celebration of Tasha Tudor Day 2022, we're hosting a giveaway! Four winners will receive a bundle that includes the last four issues of the Journal of the Tasha Tudor Society as well as one first edition out-of-print book. To enter, follow the Tasha Tudor Society on … Continue reading Tasha Tudor Day Giveaway 2022
In each issue of the Journal of the Tasha Tudor Society, we select an illustration for the back cover and ask our members to identify the Tasha Tudor book it was originally published in. We featured the image below in our most recent issue and were delighted to receive our highest number of submissions ever. … Continue reading Issue #17 Image Identification Winner
Image from A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Tasha Tudor. We're Over the Moon. Thank You! Thank you, dear members, for making our Spring Member Drive a rousing success. We set out to support our Journal by raising $12,000 in April. You responded with $14,500! Your 260 gifts arrived from 40 states … Continue reading 2022 Spring Membership Drive a Success!
From Abenaki petroglyphs and the first known African American poet Lucy Terry Prince, to Nobel Laureates like Saul Bellow, Jody Williams and Rudyard Kipling, these surprising, artistic, community-created audio stories link places to people to create a unique Vermont experience exploring America's most storied small town! The Words Trail map includes a picture of the … Continue reading Brattleboro Words Trail
Peggy (left) interviewing Ann Beneduce, Tasha’s friend and former editor, in NJ. We are sad to announce that Margaret “Peggy” Elizabeth Yoder—a founder of our pilot Chapter in PA—passed away December 17, 2021. In 2012, Peggy invited fiber artists, gardeners and Tasha fans to a meeting in her Huntingdon, PA home, starting the first Chapter … Continue reading In Memory of Peggy Yoder
This year, our member thank you gifts feature an image from Tasha's 1981 Child's Garden of Verses book. She first illustrated Robert Louis Stevenson's poems in 1947 and the illustations are different for each edition. This bookmark goes out to all Forget-Me-Not level members. Six postcards are included in the gifts for Brighter Garden members. … Continue reading 2022 Thank You Gifts
On August 26 the Pacific Northwest Chapter celebrated Tasha's birthday by touring the early pioneer’s Meeker Mansion in Puyallup, WA. After touring, everyone met for afternoon tea at a local tea shop. While enjoying afternoon tea, attendees played a game with wrapped books. Chapter members enjoyed the in-person chance to connect and discuss future events. … Continue reading Tasha Tudor Day 2021
If you are a Tasha fan, and especially if you love dolls, you're going to adore the upcoming Spring/Summer issue of the Journal! Our feature article In the Eye of the Beholder: Tasha's Doll Wedding Revisited, includes new details of the 1955 event covered by LIFE magazine. We can't wait to show you the delightful photos of the wedding … Continue reading Last Chance for Issue #15
Our dear friend Ann Beneduce, passed away March 18, 2021 at the age of 102. Ann first met Tasha in 1961 at J.B. Lippincott Co. and went on to edit twenty-one of Tasha's books over the next 25 years. This work was made possible by the everlasting friendship between these two extraordinary women. Ann was … Continue reading Remembering Ann K. Beneduce