Anna Leonowens and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical "The King and I". During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Aden, Australia, Singapore, the United States and Canada. Among other achievements, she co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Anna Leonowens' mother, Mary Ann Glascott, married her father, Sergeant Thomas Edwards, a non-commissioned officer in the Honourable East India Company's Corps of Sappers and Miners, on 15 March 1829 in St James's Church, Tannah, Bombay Presidency, British India. Edwards was from London and a former cabinetmaker. She was born in Ahmednagar district, India, on 5 November 1831, three months
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