Anna Leonowens Vudhijaya (b. 21 May 1934), stated in a 2001 interview, "King Mongkut was in the monk's hood for 27 years before he was king. He would never have ordered an execution. It is not the Buddhist way." She added that the same Tuptim was her grandmother and had married Chulalongkorn. (He had 36 wives.) While in the United States, Leonowens also earned much-needed money through popular lecture tours. At venues such as the house of Mrs. Sylvanus Reed in Fifty-third Street, New York City, in the regular members' course at Association Hall, or under the auspices of bodies such as
Deborah Berger the 2015 exhibit "When the Curtain Never Comes Down" at the American Folk Art Museum. 2015 Behind the Mask: Performance, Ritual, and the Artist 2011 DEBORAH BERGER! CROCHET!!! Deborah Berger Deborah Berger (1956 – May 21, 2005) was an American artist noted for her oeuvre of brightly colored textile works created in knitting and crochet. She is considered an outsider artist and a prodigy. Deborah Berger was born in 1956 in New Jersey. Berger was born with autism and attended boarding schools for special needs children in Texas and Pennsylvania. Deborah Berger started knitting as a young child. By the