Janice Wilson Stridick is relaxing with her husband on the porch of their lovingly restored Victorian home in Merchantville, Camden County, and remembering how she discovered a stunning message from her mother, Cape May artist Alice Steer Wilson, years after Wilson’s 2001 death.
“My mother was one of those women born in the ’20s who had all this ambition, all this determination to be her own woman,” Stridick says, “but also had this ambition to be a mother. “And I’m one of those daughters born in the ’50s who became a feminist and was telling her, like, ‘Mom, step into it!’ Wilson raised four children and painted hundreds of watercolors. “She was painting while nurturing,” Janice says. “I celebrate that.” http://bit.ly/1Hpyns3
