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The “Sylvia Plath Calendar” - 90 years ago today: Otto Emil Plath married Aurelia Frances Schober on Monday, 4 January 1932 at the Ormsby County courthouse in a civil ceremony in Carson City, Nevada. From ‘Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath’ (1991) by Paul Alexander: “Drawn closer together by the letters they had exchanged that summer, Otto and Aurelia began dating when Aurelia returned to Boston in September to assume the Brookline High School faculty post she had been offered. Almost immediately, weekend hiking trips, afternoon strolls through the Arnold Arboretum, and nights at the theatre launched the couple into a serious romance. Before long, they openly discussed marriage. Finally, just after Christmas 1931, they left Boston by car and, chaperoned by Aurelia’s mother, drove cross-country to Carson City, Nevada, where on Monday, January 4, 1932, Otto filed for and received a divorce from Lydia Bartz, the woman he had not seen in over a decade. Later that same day, Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober, each of whom swore in writing to be a current resident of Reno, Nevada, were married in a civil ceremony in Carson City, at Ormsby County’s courthouse. Following a honeymoon in Nevada, the Plaths, still accompanied by Aurelia’s mother, drove back to Boston to begin their married life. Aurelia moved into Otto’s apartment, a six-room first-floor rental in a house at 24 Prince Street in Jamaica Plain. Before she could resume her teaching job at Brookline High, Otto insisted that she resign, which she did even though she was a successful teacher and probable future chairman of the German Department. Otto wanted Aurelia to become a full-time housewife, and he wished to start a family as soon as possible. In fact, they would become parents much sooner than even Otto had hoped: only weeks into the marriage Aurelia became pregnant (with Sylvia).” . If you want to learn more about Otto’s and Aurelia’s family histories, I can definitely recommend Alexander’s ‘Rough Magic’, as it provides many details. . . Photo: Sylvia Plath (9 months old) with her parents in July 1933 at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA) #sylviaplath #onthisday https://www.instagram.com/p/CYUmECVL2tD/?utm_medium=tumblr

Its brisk in Boston this morning, so here’s a frosty cover from Jamaica Plain High’s School magazine, “The Clarion.” We hope our followers stay warm and cozy today!

Cover of “The Clarion,” 1940 February, Jamaica Plain High School records, Collection 0420.044 , Boston City Archives

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA

TUE FEB 28 - 7:00 PM

First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain
633 Centre Street

Organizing on (Safety) Pins & Needles 

Facilitated by DiDi Delgado and Leslie Mac of Black Lives Matter Cambridge.

This training will focus on community organizing in the service of marginalized communities without recreating systems of oppression.

Cost: $15
buy your ticket here: http://conta.cc/2kX90ZV

Topics will include intersectional advocacy, privilege and productive silence, effectiveness of current white-led anti-racism work, uplifting without contributing to erasure, and why Donald Trump shouldn’t change everything in terms of how we organize.

First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain’s first floor is wheelchair accessible.