JUDITH WINSLOW

I just learned of dear Judy's death in a conversation with Trix Rumford this evening - was so distracted with a death in my own family last winter that I failed to make contact with Judy through the fall and winter, which I now realize were her final months. Judy was a lovely friend to me when I came to CW as a one-year curatorial assistant in June,1971 - my first job after graduating from college. Judy and her then husband Sam Blood lived in a garage apartment in the same Queen's Lake home...

Some years ago I found in my mailbox a manila envelope from Colonial Williamsburg. I knew it was from Judy because of her distinctive handwriting, which sometimes for me was difficult to decipher. At that time she was still living at the Waller Kitchen. Upon opening the package I found a note and some dried flower heads. After some time working with the note, I found that she had gone to the Waller House gardens and harvested the flower heads from the digitalis plants. I expect she did...