
May Woolsey: 1866-1879
The process of making a book about what a the contents of a hidden trunk can tell us.
Combining research with storytelling, Taylor writes essays and creates art that investigates how place shapes resilience, using archival materials and site-specific work to reveal the interconnected transformations between landscape and history.
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The process of making a book about what a the contents of a hidden trunk can tell us.

Nobody could have done all that. Nobody. Too unbelievable. But she did.

Fred "The Fish" Gordon: a synthesis of passions.

Discovering May Woolsey's father, a part of California engineering history

How to illustrate her story when I'm not an illustrator.

On the evening of July 23rd, 1879, May started writing in her diary for the first time.

I'd be a fool not to use this tool

Margaret Bourke-White & Gandhi, 1948

The creature hit the road.

May returns again, by columnist Bob Sylva, Sacramento Bee, October 20, 1994