'Put it down on paper' : the words and life of Mary Folsom Blair : a fifty-year search
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Author
Published
Amesbury, Massachusetts : Loom Press, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
093150726X, 9780931507267
Physical Desc
xiv, 205 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Medford - Adult | BIOG Blair, M. | On Shelf |
Medford - Special | Medford Author/Primack | Library Use Only |
More Details
Published
Amesbury, Massachusetts : Loom Press, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
093150726X, 9780931507267
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
"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"--Back cover.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biography.
Blair, Mary Folsom -- Correspondence.
Blair, Mary Folsom -- Diaries.
Diaries.
Epping (N.H. : Town) -- Biography.
Outdoor education -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town)
Personal correspondence.
Quaker women -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Correspondence.
Quaker women -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Diaries.
Women teachers -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Correspondence.
Women teachers -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Diaries.
Blair, Mary Folsom -- Correspondence.
Blair, Mary Folsom -- Diaries.
Diaries.
Epping (N.H. : Town) -- Biography.
Outdoor education -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town)
Personal correspondence.
Quaker women -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Correspondence.
Quaker women -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Diaries.
Women teachers -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Correspondence.
Women teachers -- New Hampshire -- Epping (Town) -- Diaries.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Primack, P. (2022). 'Put it down on paper': the words and life of Mary Folsom Blair : a fifty-year search (First edition.). Loom Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Primack, Phil. 2022. 'Put It Down On Paper': The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair : A Fifty-year Search. Loom Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Primack, Phil. 'Put It Down On Paper': The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair : A Fifty-year Search Loom Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Primack, Phil. 'Put It Down On Paper': The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair : A Fifty-year Search First edition., Loom Press, 2022.
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