Date: 4/23/24 9:45 pm From: JAMES SPEICHER <jugornought...> Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Janet Millenson funeral information
Janet was a long time participant in the C&O mid-Winter count. I asked her
once about the way she always ended her MD Birding posts with
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and learned that it was a phrase that her pet parrot came out with but the
exact details of how the phrase was learned is in her message to me
somewhere on the Group archives and wasn't quickly found. Maybe someone
knows.
I was also curious about the "twocrows" in her e-address. Maybe someone
knows the story behind that. One theory is that it relates to the nursery
rhyme about Magpies repurposed for America:
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret never to be told
Jim Speicher
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 6:48 PM Phil Davis <pdavis...> wrote:
> MD Birders:
>
> Sorry I am late with this ...
>
> This is so sad.
>
> Among many memories, Janet was a student of the history ornithology.
> Many years ago I remember attending a presentation by her on the
> history of ornithology at the Anne Arundel Bird Club. She started out
> with Pliny the Elder and went from there. I loved it!
>
> My wife and I also remember sharing her sadness when her long-time
> pet African Gray Parrot, Pascal, passed away a number of years ago.
> She was very close to him.
>
> Janet also served as the MOS Publications Committee Chair and the
> organization is indebted to her for first loading all of the Maryland
> Birdlife issues, from 1945 to 2000, onto a CD-ROM that was
> distributed to the members to provide digital access to the journal's
> archives.
>
> We will very much miss Janet.
>
> Phil
>
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