Before she became a well-known writer, Maine author Ruth Moore was a special investigator for the NAACP, worked for the publicity department of the Y.M.C.A., was an editor for the Readers Digest and managed a walnut ranch and vineyard in Martinez, California.
Description: Before she became a well-known writer, Maine author Ruth Moore was a special investigator for the NAACP, worked for the publicity department of the Y.M.C.A., was an editor for the Readers Digest and managed a walnut ranch and vineyard in Martinez, California.
Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. It was Maine writer Ruth Moore who first imagined the dog's bark, as she sifted through the sand and sod on her native Great Gott Island, pausing later to reflect on the island's history in her poem, "The Indian Shell Heap":
Description: Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. It was Maine writer Ruth Moore who first imagined the dog's bark, as she sifted through the sand and sod on her native Great Gott Island, pausing later to reflect on the island's history in her poem, "The Indian Shell Heap":
The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here.
Description: The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here. [show more]
Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins, Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society , Volume XI, 2010, p. 50-71. - Courtesy of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description: Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins, Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society , Volume XI, 2010, p. 50-71. - Courtesy of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Two illustrations in part of an article titled "The Soldier in Our Civil War". The illustrations depict: "Scene of the Fight Between Detachments of the Sixth Corps. General Wright, and Rode's and Gordon's Divisions of Ewell's Corps. at Fort Stevens, Washington, D.D. July 12th, 1864. From a Sketch by E. F. Mullen." "The Fifth Army Corps Awaiting the Order to Advance, After the Explosion of the Mine, Petersburg, July 30th, 1864."
Description: Two illustrations in part of an article titled "The Soldier in Our Civil War". The illustrations depict: "Scene of the Fight Between Detachments of the Sixth Corps. General Wright, and Rode's and Gordon's Divisions of Ewell's Corps. at Fort Stevens, Washington, D.D. July 12th, 1864. From a Sketch by E. F. Mullen." "The Fifth Army Corps Awaiting the Order to Advance, After the Explosion of the Mine, Petersburg, July 30th, 1864." [show more]