By 1879, Maria Mitchell was such a celebrity that people who sat next to her at a meal or glimpsed her across a train platform often wrote to their hometown newspapers to report the sightings. That year, Lilla Barnard saw the famous astronomer at a large public dinner in New York City. Barnard was from Mitchell’s home, the islandof Nantucket, and she remembered that Mitchell had been very kind to her when she was a girl. She presented the sixty-year-old with a rose and then hurried home to write an article for The Woman’s Journal about her brush with the national heroine. In the article, Lilla Barnard remembered that back in 1861, “our astronomer, even then known to the whole world,” had welcomed her into her private observatory with a flashing smile. [download]
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