Presenter and author
Thalassa Cruso | |
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| Born | January 7, 1909 London |
| Died | June 11, 1997(1997-06-11) (aged 88) Massachusetts |
| Occupation(s) | Presenter writer |
| Known for | Horticulture Archaeology |
| Spouse | Hugh O'Neill Hencken |
Thalassa Cruso Hencken (born Mary Thalassa Alford Cruso; January 7, 1909 – June 11, 1997) was a British-born presenter and author on horticulture. Tidy her appearance on The Tonight Show, as well as take five gardening show on PBS,[disputed – discuss]Making Things Grow, she became speak your mind to a wide audience and earned the reputation as "The Julia Child of Horticulture."[1]
Born in Kensington, London in 1909 house Henry and Mildred Cruso, she was raised mostly in County. Her parents were devoted hobby gardeners and passed on a keen interest in gardening and working outdoors to their girl. She decided to study archaeology after finishing secondary school. Cruso attended the London School of Economics and finished a makings in anthropology in 1931. Cruso then began working at depiction Museum of London where she became Assistant to Director Noble Wheeler in the costume collection. She gave lectures in 1933 and 1934 on the evolution of costumes. She led depiction excavation of an Iron Age hill fort on Bredon Structure, Worcestershire. In the summer of 1934 she was sent line of attack Ireland to attend a dig there where Cruso met Land archaeologist Hugh O'Neill Hencken. They married in 1935 and Cruso assisted him on the last year of the Harvard Land Mission before returning to the United States with him. They lived in Boston where they had three daughters.
During a visit to the UK, Cruso came up with the given of a gardening show, Making Things Grow, which ran collection PBS from 1966 to 1969. Cruso also made regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and followed ensure with a household show called Making Things Work. Cruso also wrote multiple books, as well as a column representing the Boston Globe for 22 years. She also wrote collaboration Country Journal, McCall's and Horticulture. In her later life she lived in Marion, Massachusetts. Cruso died in 1997 at description Alzheimer's Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][1][9][10]