Nut Lady's Home Page

Nut Lady's Home Page

Elizabeth Tashjian passed away January 28, 2007.

RoadsideAmerica.com started this page in 1996 to help get the word out about the "Nut Lady" and her Nut Museum. Both gone today, but Elizabeth Tashjian's story and spirit live on!

About the [now defunct] NUT MUSEUM...

Elizabeth Tashjian, 1931-2007.

News On The Nut Front

Nov 2, 2019: Nut Lady Sprouts Anew: College art museum retropective remembers Elizabeth Tashjian.

Feb 4, 2007: Obituary "Elizabeth Tashjian, who debated whether she was a nut culturist or a nut artist, but was indisputably, well, nuts enough about nuts to win fame (but not fortune) as matriarch of the Nut Museum in Old Lyme, Conn., died last Sunday in Old Saybrook, Conn. She was 94." [New York Times]

Jan 29, 2007: Nut Lady Dies - We were saddened to learn that the Nut Lady died on Sunday at her nursing home in Old Saybrook. She was 94. [RoadsideAmerica.com]

Nut Anthem video.

January 30, 2007: Remembering Elizabeth Tashjian: From the Roadside America video archives, here is one of Elizabeth's acapella performances of her Nut Anthem, "Nuts Are Beautiful," recorded in 1985 in front of the World's Largest Nutcracker in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Roadside America Video

2002: Messages from the Nut Lady to her fans

Sweet Sounds of Nutdom

Vintage sound recordings of the Nut Lady singing her self-penned nut songs:

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March of the Nuts

Rallying the troops for full frontal assault. [492k .mp3 audio file]


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Nuts Are Beautiful

The Lord's Prayer of Nutdom. [928k .mp3 audio file]

Nut Galleria

A tour of Elizabeth's nut art statements.

Nut Lady Media Watch

The Nut Lady was a living laundry list of her latest media appearances...

Visit the Peanut Gallery!

Nuts CAN change your life! Find nut appreciation by fans in the Peanut Gallery.


Nut Lady Art & Words © Copyright Elizabeth Tashjian

Coco du Bullet

Nuts Are Treats To The Soul

Nut Lady

"Nuts have a heart. Hard and pricky sometimes on the outside, but soft and sweet on the inside. That's my philosophy."



Nut Lady on TeeVee


Internut Yet:

While Elizabeth contributed much material for our Nut Lady's Home Page, she was "offline" for the most part. She visited a local library to see her Nut Museum on the web for the first time in the late 1990s. Although the library computer lacked a sound card, she was pleased that her songs were a part of the site. "I was once asked to sing 'Nuts Are Beautiful' to a group of senior citizens," she recalled. "Half the people walked out before the first stanza was over.

Coco du Bullet

Mr. Peanut

Nut Mask

O Mask of Nut!

Where Doth Thou Recline?