The sports department of the New York Times.
The paper of record plans to shift sports coverage to The Athletic, which it purchased last year.
Evva Hanes, popularizer of Moravian cookies.
Mrs. Hanes, the youngest of seven, grew up watching her mother, Bertha Foltz, make and sell hundreds of the thin cookies to supplement what little money the family’s small dairy farm brought in. Other Moravian women sold cookies, too, adhering to a recipe with molasses and warm winter spices, like clove and ginger, that were popular around Christmas.
Mrs. Foltz began baking a crispy vanilla-scented version as a way to differentiate herself and extend the selling season. By age 8, Evva could bake them on her own. By 20, she had taken over her mother’s business and slowly begun to expand it, selling the original sugar crisps as well as the traditional ginger version but eventually other flavors, too, like lemon and black walnut.
I feel a little guilty about saying this, but now I kind of want to order a tin of Moravian cookies.
Roy Herron, Tennessee state legislator. He was injured in a jet ski accident on July 1st, and passed away on Sunday.
I’ve written previously about both the Dutch resistance and about the NYT‘s “Overlooked No More” obits. In that vein: Hannie Schaft.
In June 1944, Schaft and a fellow resistance fighter, Jan Bonekamp (with whom she was rumored to have had a romantic relationship), targeted a high-ranking police officer for assassination. As the officer was getting on his bicycle to go to work, Schaft shot him in the back, causing him to fall off the bike. Bonekamp finished the killing but was injured doing so. He died shortly after. Schaft managed to escape on her own bike, which was how she got around doing her resistance work.
Schaft was also involved in killing or wounding a baker who was known for betraying people, a hairdresser who worked for the Nazis’ intelligence agency, and another Nazi police officer.
Before confronting her targets, Schaft put on makeup — including lipstick and mascara — and styled her hair, Jackson said. In one of the few direct quotations that have been attributed to Schaft, she explained her reasoning to Truus Oversteegen: “I’ll die clean and beautiful.”
I love Moravian cookies, love Old Salem, Moravian historic area of Winston-Salem.
Love Resistance fighters. Hope to have their courage when the time comes.
In many ways, resistance fighters are braver than the military people who are on the front lines fighting the actual war. Because they don’t have the resources and support system behind them if things should go south.
McNulty:
I can’t say I love Moravian cookies, as I don’t think I’ve ever had them. But I did give in and order a tin of Mrs. Hanes yesterday. I’ll report back once we’ve sampled them.
And I’m fond of resistance fighters, too. Especially those French and Dutch ones. Tough folks for tough times.
Pigpen:
Another thing to keep in mind is: uniformed military are subject to the various rules of war, and have to be treated in certain ways. Resistance fighters are non-uniformed combatants, and are not subject to the same rules of war.
I suspect you know this already, but I thought I’d point it out for the benefit of my other readers.