Put It Down on Paper: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, a Fifty-year Search - Couverture souple

Primack, Phil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 093150726X ISBN 13 : 9780931507267

Editeur : Loom Press, 2022

Synopsis

Mary E. Folsom Blair was just a name on a listing sheet when young writer Phil Primack bought her Epping, New Hampshire, property in 1974. As he learned more about this lifelong teacher, Quaker, and early advocate for outdoor education, his reporter bones began to twitch. Over decades, Primack talked to her former students and relatives, tracking down Mary's most accurate life record: letters and journals dating 1897, when she was fifteen. Her sharp mind and creative soul grapple with the social restraints of her time and "the pain this world holds for a woman." Mary pens her hopes and bares her despair as young chums die, her classroom ways are challenged, relationships with men and women end until--resigned to her fate as "spinster that was, is and ever shall be"--she meets her Hero on ice. With her collected papers preserved at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Mary Folsom Blair will teach in a digital forever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phil Primack was a reporter for weekly and daily newspapers from Boston to Appalachia and has written for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Nation. He has taught journalism at several colleges and has been a public policy adviser and consultant. He is the author of New England Country Fair.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Loom Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 093150726X
• ISBN 13: 9780931507267
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible