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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years ago

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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER

March 27, 1950

"The Man Who Came To Dinner” was a presentation of Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast on CBS Radio on March 27, 1950.

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939, at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where it ran until 1941, closing after 739 performances. It then enjoyed a number of New York and London revivals.

The play was adapted for a 1942 feature film, scripted by Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein and directed by William Keighley. The film featured Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Billie Burke, Jimmy Durante, Mary Wickes and Richard Travis.

“The Man Who Came to Dinner” was previously presented on radio by Philip Morris Playhouse on July 10, 1942. Monty Woolley, who played the leading role in the film version, starred in the adaptation. It was broadcast again by Theatre Guild on the Air on ABC Radio November 17, 1946 starring Fred Allen. In 1949, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” was produced on “The Hotpoint Holiday Hour” starring Charles Boyer, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Rosalind Russell.

On October 13, 1954, a 60-minute adaptation was aired on the CBS Television series “The Best of Broadway.” A “Hallmark Hall of Fame” production was broadcast n November 29, 1972 starring Orson Welles, Lee Remick (Maggie Cutler), Joan Collins (Lorraine Sheldon), Don Knotts (Dr. Bradley), and Marty Feldman (Banjo). The 2000 Broadway revival was broadcast by PBS on October 7, 2000, three days after the New York production closed, and was also released on DVD.

Synopsis ~ The story is set in the small town of Mesalia, Ohio in the weeks leading to Christmas in the late 1930s. The outlandish radio wit Sheridan Whiteside is invited to dine at the house of the well-to-do factory owner Ernest Stanley and his family. But before Whiteside can enter the house, he slips on a patch of ice outside the Stanleys' front door and injures his hip. Confined to the Stanleys' home in a wheelchair, Whiteside and his retinue of show business friends turn the Stanley home upside down! But is he really injured?

This adaptation was written by S.H. Barnett. The characters eliminated for this adaptation include Richard Stanley, John, Mrs. Dexter, and Mrs. McCutcheon.

The show is hosted by William Keighley, who directed the 1942 film adaptation.

Lux Radio Theatre (1935-55) was a radio anthology series that adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films (”Lux Presents Hollywood”). These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences in Los Angeles. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand.

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Lucille Ball (Maggie Cutler) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. “My Favorite Husband” eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.

Clifton Webb (Sheridan Whiteside) had appeared with Lucille Ball in the 1946 film The Dark Corner. He was nominated for three Oscars. Webb had played the role of Sheridan Whiteside on stage for two years.

Eleanor Audley (Mrs. Stanley) appeared in several episodes of Lucille Ball’s “My Favorite Husband” as mother-in-law Letitia Cooper. Audley was first seen with Lucille Ball as Mrs. Spaulding, the first owner of the Ricardo’s Westport home in “Lucy Wants to Move to the Country” (ILL S6;E15). She returned to play one of the garden club judges in “Lucy Raises Tulips” (ILL S6;E26). Audley appeared one last time with Lucille Ball in a “Lucy Saves Milton Berle” (TLS S4;E13) in 1965.

Ruth Perrott (Sarah) played Katie the maid on Lucille Ball’s radio show “My Favorite Husband.” On “I Love Lucy” she played Mrs. Pomerantz in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25), was one of the member of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress” (ILL S3;E3), and played a nurse when “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2;E16).

Betty Lou Gerson is best remembered as the voice of Cruella De Ville in the original Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).

Stephen Dunn had appeared with Lucille Ball in Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949).

John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)

‘DINNER’ TRIVIA

The same date as this radio adaptation (March 27, 1950), original star Monty Wooley arrived in Vancouver to perform in the play.

This broadcast aired the day after the “My Favorite Husband” episode “Liz’s Radio Script” also starring Lucille and Ruth Perrott.

Lucille Ball’s good friend and frequent co-star Mary Wickes was typecast as a nurse due to her breakthrough role as Nurse Preen in the Broadway, film, and television versions of The Man Who Came To Dinner.’ She does not play Nurse Preen in this adaptation. The character is given the first name Geraldine.

Lucille Ball previously appeared on “Lux Radio Theatre” for a November 10, 1947 adaptation of her film The Dark Corner (1946).

The first commercial talks about how Lux soap is gentle on stockings, like those worn by Betty Grable in Wabash Avenue.

The second commercial (between acts two and three) interviews actress Joan Miller, talking about the Warners picture Stage Fright, and how Lux helped keep the costumes looking great.

In the post show interviews, Clifton Webb promotes his next film Cheaper By The Dozen.

The final Lux commercial talks about how movie star Hedy Lamarr uses Lux.

The program presents a special address from president of the Red Cross, General George C. Marshall. The American Red Cross was mentioned on “My Favorite Husband” and Red Cross posters were frequently scene decorating the sets on “I Love Lucy.”

The ending of radio’s “My Favorite Husband” episode “Mother-in-Law” (November 4, 1949) starring Lucille Ball is identical to the ending of The Man Who Came To Dinner.

In “Lucy and Viv Reminisce” (TLS S6;E16) on January 1, 1968, while nursing Lucy, who has a broken leg, Viv slips and also breaks her leg. She says she feels just like a female version of The Man Who Came To Dinner.

“Vivian Sues Lucy” (TLS S1;E10) on December 3, 1962 also has a plot that resembles The Man Who Came To Dinner. Viv injures herself due to Lucy’s careless housekeeping, and is bedridden. Lucy goes out of her way to cater to her every whim, so that she won’t sue!

Although the play is fictional, it draws on real life figures and events for its inspiration.

Sheridan Whiteside was modeled on Alexander Woollcott.

Beverly Carlton was modeled on Noël Coward.

Banjo was modeled on Harpo Marx, and there is a dialogue reference to his brothers Groucho and Chico. When Sheridan Whiteside talks to Banjo on the phone, he asks him, "How are Wackko and Sloppo?"

Professor Metz was based on Dr. Gustav Eckstein of Cincinnati (with cockroaches substituted for canaries), and Lorraine Sheldon was modeled after Gertrude Lawrence.

The character of Harriet Sedley, the alias of Harriet Stanley, is an homage to Lizzie Borden. The popular jump-rope rhyme immortalizing Borden is parodied in the play.

Radio critic Dick Diespecker was not exactly enthusiastic about this adaptation.

The announcer reminds viewers that next week “Lux Radio Theatre” will present “Come To the Stable” starring Loretta Young and Hugh Marlowe

The announcer promotes Lucille Ball’s new picture Fancy Pants starring Bob Hope.

#Lucille Ball #The Man Who Came To Dinner #Clifton Webb #Eleanor Audley #My Favorite Husband #Ruth Perrott #Red Cross #Betty Lou Gerson #Hedy Lamarr #Betty Grable #Kaufman and Hart #Fancy Pants #Lux Radio Theatre #Lux #William Keighley

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timeless-hollywood-classics · 4 years ago

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Clara Lou Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967), known professionally as Ann Sheridan, was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 until her death, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include San Quentin (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Monty Woolley, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.

Born in Denton, Texas, on February 21, 1915, Clara Lou Sheridan was the daughter of G.W. Sheridan and Lula Stewart Warren Sheridan. According to Sheridan, her father was a great-great-nephew of Civil War Union general Philip Sheridan. She had a sister, Pauline.

She was active in dramatics at Denton High School and at North Texas State Teachers College. She also sang with the college's stage band.

In 1932, she was a student at North Texas State Teachers College when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film, The Search for Beauty. She left college to pursue a career in Hollywood.

After making her film debut in 1934, at 19, in Search for Beauty, she played uncredited bit parts in Paramount films for the next two years, starting at $75 a week (equivalent to $1,400 in 2019).

She can be glimpsed in Bolero (1934), Come On Marines! (1934) (billed as "Clara Lou Sheridan"), Murder at the Vanities (1934), Shoot the Works (1934), Kiss and Make-Up (1934), The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934), College Rhythm (1934) (directed by Norman Taurog whom Sheridan admired), Ladies Should Listen (1934), You Belong to Me (1934), Wagon Wheels (1934), The Lemon Drop Kid (1934), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934), Ready for Love (1934), Limehouse Blues (1934), and One Hour Late (1934).

Sheridan worked with Paramount's drama coach Nina Mouise and performed plays on the lot with fellow contractees, including The Milky Way and The Pursuit of Happiness. When she did The Milky Way, she played a character called Ann and the Paramount front office decided to change her name to "Ann".

Sheridan had a part in Behold My Wife! (1934), which she got at the behest of director Mitchell Leisen, who was a friend. She had two good scenes, one in which her character had to commit suicide. Sheridan attributed Paramount's keeping her for two years to this role.

She followed it with Enter Madame (1935), Home on the Range (1935), and Rumba (1935).

Sheridan's first lead came in Car 99 (1935) with Fred MacMurray. She was in Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935), a Randolph Scott Western. "No acting, it was just playing the lead, that's all", she later said.

She then appeared in Mississippi (1935) with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, The Glass Key (1935) with George Raft, and (having one line) The Crusades (1935) with Loretta Young. Paramount lent her out to Talisman, a small production company, to makeThe Red Blood of Courage (1935) with Kermit Maynard. After this, Paramount declined to take up her option.

Sheridan did one film at Universal, Fighting Youth (1935), and then signed a contract with Warner Bros. in 1936.

Sheridan's career prospects began to improve. Her early films for Warner Bros. included Sing Me a Love Song (1936); Black Legion (1937) with Humphrey Bogart; The Great O'Malley (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Bogart, her first real break; San Quentin (1937), with O'Brien and Bogart, singing for the first time in a film; and Wine, Women and Horses (1937) with Barton MacLane.

Sheridan moved into B picture leads: The Footloose Heiress (1937); Alcatraz Island (1937) with John Litel; and She Loved a Fireman (1937) with Dick Foran for director John Farrow. She was a lead in The Patient in Room 18 (1937) and its sequel Mystery House (1938). Sheridan was in Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) with Litel for Farrow and supported Dick Powell in Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).

Universal borrowed her for a support role in Letter of Introduction (1938) at the behest of director John M. Stahl. For Farrow, she was in Broadway Musketeers (1938), a remake of Three on a Match (1932).

Sheridan's notices in Letter of Introduction impressed Warner Bros. executives. "Oomph" was described as "a certain indefinable something that commands male interest." and she began to get roles in A pictures, starting with Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), wherein she played James Cagney's love interest; Bogart, O'Brien and the Dead End Kids had supporting roles. The film was a big hit and critically acclaimed.

Sheridan was reunited with the Dead End Kids in They Made Me a Criminal (1938) starring John Garfield. She was third-billed in the Western Dodge City (1939), playing a saloon owner opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film was another notable success.

In March 1939, Warner Bros. announced Sheridan had been voted by a committee of 25 men as the actress with the most "oomph" in America.

She received as many as 250 marriage proposals from fans in a single week. Tagged "The Oomph Girl"—a sobriquet which she reportedly loathed —Sheridan was a popular pin-up girl in the early 1940s. (On the other hand, a February 25, 1940, news story distributed by the Associated Press reported that Sheridan no longer "bemoaned the 'oomph' tag." She continued, "But I'm sorry now. I know if it hadn't been for 'oomph' I'd probably still be in the chorus.")

Sheridan co-starred with Dick Powell in Naughty but Nice (1939) and played a wacky heiress in Winter Carnival (1939).

She was top billed in Indianapolis Speedway (1939) with O'Brien and Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) with O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan. Castle on the Hudson (1940) put her opposite Garfield and O'Brien.

Sheridan's first real starring vehicle was It All Came True (1940), a musical comedy co starring Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn. She introduced the song "Angel in Disguise".

Sheridan and Cagney were reunited in Torrid Zone (1940) with O'Brien in support. She was with George Raft, Bogart and Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940), a trucking melodrama. Sheridan was back with Cagney for City for Conquest (1941) and then made Honeymoon for Three (1941), a comedy with George Brent.

Sheridan did two lighter films: Navy Blues (1941), a musical comedy, and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), wherein she played a character modeled on Gertrude Lawrence. She then made Kings Row (1942), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field. It was a huge success and one of Sheridan's most memorable films.

Sheridan and Reagan were reunited for Juke Girl (1942). She was in the war film Wings for the Eagle (1942) and made a comedy with Jack Benny, George Washington Slept Here (1943). She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in Edge of Darkness (1943) with Errol Flynn and was one of the many Warners stars who had cameos in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).

She was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt and published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories were entirely fictitious. The story was probably written for a young teenaged audience and is reminiscent of the adventures of Nancy Drew. It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941 and 1947 that always featured a film actress as heroine.

Sheridan was given the lead in the musical Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944), playing Nora Bayes, opposite Dennis Morgan. She was in a comedy The Doughgirls (1944).

Sheridan was absent from screens for over a year, touring with the USO to perform in front of the troops as far afield as China. She returned in One More Tomorrow (1946) with Morgan. She had an excellent role in the noir Nora Prentiss (1947), which was a hit. It was followed by The Unfaithful (1948), a popular remake of The Letter, and Silver River (1948), a Western melodrama with Errol Flynn.

Leo McCarey borrowed her to support Gary Cooper in Good Sam (1948). She was meant to star in Flamingo Road. She then left Warner Bros., saying: "I wasn't at all satisfied with the scripts they offered me."

Her role in I Was a Male War Bride (1949), directed by Howard Hawks and co-starring Cary Grant, was another success. In 1950, she appeared on the ABC musical television series Stop the Music.

She made Stella (1950), a comedy with Victor Mature at Fox.

In April 1949, she announced she wanted to produce Second Lady, a film based on a story by Eleanor Griffin. She was going to make Carriage Entrance at RKO. They fired her and Sheridan sued for $250,000.

Sheridan made Woman on the Run (1950), a noir, which she did produce. She wanted to make a film called Her Secret Diary.

Woman on the Run was distributed by Universal, and Sheridan signed a contract with that studio. While there, she made Steel Town (1952), Just Across the Street (1952), and Take Me to Town (1953), a comedy directed by Douglas Sirk.

Sheridan supported Glenn Ford in Appointment in Honduras (1953), directed by Jacques Tourneur. She appeared opposite Steve Cochran in Come Next Spring (1956) and was one of several stars in MGM's The Opposite Sex (1956). Her last film, The Woman and the Hunter, was shot in Africa.

She went to New York to appear in a Broadway show, but it did not make it to Broadway.

She did stage tours of Kind Sir (1958) and Odd Man In (1959), and The Time of Your Life at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. In all three shows, she acted with Scott McKay, whom she later married.

In 1962, she played the lead in "The Mavis Grant Story" on the Western series Wagon Train.

In the mid-1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World.

Her final work was a TV series of her own, a comedy Western entitled Pistols 'n' Petticoats, which was filmed during the year before her death and was broadcast on CBS on Saturday nights. The 19th episode of the series, "Beware the Hangman", aired, as scheduled, on the same day that she died.

For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ann Sheridan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.

Sheridan married actor Edward Norris August 16, 1936, in Ensenada, Mexico. They separated a year later and divorced in 1939. On January 5, 1942, she married fellow Warner Bros. star George Brent, who co-starred with her in Honeymoon for Three (1941). They divorced exactly one year later. Following her divorce from Brent, she had a long-term relationship with publicist Steve Hannagan, that lasted until his death in 1953. Hannagan's estate bequeathed Miss Sheridan $218,399 ($2.1 million in current dollars). On June 5, 1966, she married actor Scott McKay, who was with her when she died, six months later.

In 1966, Sheridan began starring in a new television series, a Western-themed comedy called Pistols 'n' Petticoats. She became ill during the filming and died of gastroesophageal cancer with massive liver metastases at age 51 on January 21, 1967, in Los Angeles. She was cremated and her ashes were stored at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles until they were interred in a niche in the Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005.

#ann sheridan #classic movie stars #golden age of hollywood #old hollywood

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televinita · 4 years ago

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Top 100 Books*

(*As apparently determined by me years ago at age 19, the last age at which I could possibly have determined such a list, in whatever order I thought of them. It is very subjective and based entirely on my personal favorite 5-star books up to that point. It has no rules about how many times an author can appear, and “100″ is a loose guideline, given that sequels and sometimes even series books are counted under 1 number. Not all of the books on this list have held up, but a surprising number of them have.)

1. Black Beauty --Anna Sewell 2. The Incredible Journey --Sheila Burnford 3. San Domingo: Medicine Hat Stallion--Marguerite Henry) 4. X-Files novel: Ruins --Kevin Anderson (2020 note: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. I will defend its inclusion still, tbh) 5. Harry Potter (whole series) -- J.K. Rowling 6. Firebringer -- John Clement-Davies 7. The Sight -- John Clement-Davies 8. The Mystery of Pony Hollow (& sequel The Mystery of Pony Hollow Panda) -- Lynn Hall 9. Wild Magic (quartet) -- Tamora Pierce 10. Final Grades -- Anita Heyman 11. Golden Sovereign -- Dorothy Lyons 12. Wild Horse Summer -- Hope Ryden 13. The Best Little Girl in the World -- Steven Levenkron 14. The Ark (& sequel, Rowan Farm) -- Margot Benery-Isbert 15. Shadow Horse -- Allison Hart 16. Wild Animals I Have Known -- Ernest Thompson Seton 17. Beautiful Joe -- (Margaret) Marshall Saunders 18. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte 19. Charlotte's Web -- EB White 20. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) -- Antoine de Saint Exupery 21. Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott 22. The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) -- Roald Dahl 23. Touching Spirit Bear -- Ben Mikaelsen 24. A Horse Called Dragon (& sequels) -- Lynn Hall 25. Silver Chief: Dog of the North - Jack O'Brien 26. Snow Dog - Jim Kjelgaard 27. Buff: A Collie -- Albert Payson Terhune 28. Julie of the Wolves -- Jean Craighead-George 29. Vulpes the Red Fox -- Jean Craighead-George 30. The Perilous Gard -- Elizabeth Marie Pope 31. Summer Pony -- Jean Slaughter Doty 32. The Boxcar Children (series) - Gertrude Chandler Warner 33. The Bear -- James Oliver Curwood 34. Moccasin Trail -- Eloise Jarvis McGraw 35. Quest for Courage -- Stormy Rodolph 36. Lad: A Dog -- Albert Payson Terhune 37. Dog of the High Sierras -- Albert Payson Terhune 38. Sign of the Beaver -- Elizabeth George Speare 39. Little House on the Prairie (series) -- Laura Ingalls Wilder 40. Nop's Trials -- Donald McCaig 41. Bel Ria -- Sheila Burnford 42. The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne 43. Comanche of the Seventh - Margaret Leighton 44. Whinny of the Wild Horses --Amy C. Laundrie 45. Multiple Choice -- Janet Tashjian 46. Black Unicorn -- Tanith Lee 47. Broken Chords -- Barbara Snow Gilbert 48. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic -- Betty McDonald 49. Shamrock Queen (Always Reddy) -- Marguerite Henry 50. Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West -- Marguerite Henry 51. Black Gold -- Marguerite Henry 52. Brighty of the Grand Canyon -- Marguerite Henry 53. White Fang -- Jack London 54. Call of the Wild -- Jack London 55. Gentle Ben -- Walt Morey 56. Bambi -- Felix Salten 57. Shiloh -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 58. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Biano 59. The Last Unicorn -- Peter S. Beale 60. The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare 61. Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting 62. Outlaw Red -- Jim Kjelgaard 63. Island of the Blue Dolphins -- Scott O'Dell 64. Anne of Green Gables -- Anne M. Montgomery 65. Heidi - Johanna Spyri 66. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte 67. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew -- Margaret Sidney 68. Peter Pan -- J.M. Barrie 69. All Creatures Great and Small (quartet) - James Herriot 70. The Little White Horse -- Elizabeth Goudge 71. Tomorrow, When the War Began -- John Marsden 72. Candy - Kevin Brooks (2020 Me: but...literally why?) 73. After - Francine Prose 74. What Happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-Ucci 75. A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter 76. A Rose for Melinda - Lurlene McDaniel (2020 Me: *SCREECHING*) 77. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen 78. Go Ask Alice - anonymous (2020 Me: *SCREECHING INTENSIFIES*) 79. The White Horse - Cynthia D. Grant 80. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton 81. Lord of the Kill - Theodore Taylor 82. Leaving Fishers - Margaret Peterson Haddix 83. Pop Princess - Rachel Cohn 84. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff 85. Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin 86. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey - Margaret Peterson Haddix 87. The Hunger Scream - Ivy Ruckman 88. Blind Beauty - K.M. Peyton 89. The Pig-Out Blues - Jan Greenberg 90. It All Began With Jane Eyre - Sheila Greenwald 91. The Great Pony Hassle - Nancy Springer 92. Thunderwith - Libby Hawthorn 93. Smoky the Cow Horse - Will James 94. Wait Till Helen Comes - Mary Downing Hahn 95. When The Dolls Woke - Marjorie Filley Stover 96. The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth 97. Golden Dog - Mary Elwyn Pratchett 98. The Seventh One - Elizabeth Yates 99. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith 100. A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly

#at least half this list is animal books and that is a solid choice #i have made no content edits no matter how difficult #quality data #it also illuminated a bit more of my reading history to me with respect to middle and late elementary school #my stuff #also WOW i was not even aware that i read heidi so...tells you what a strong impression that one left oops #and i love that Teen Me apparently took to the Brontes but read 1 Austen (P&P) and decided it was beyond her grasp??#p.s. i was today years old when i realized how significant the author of catwings is #top 100 books

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lindparkera-blog · 6 years ago

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Extraordinary Milly Parker

Milly Parker Biography

Milly Parker was born into an East Coast family of means around the turn of the last century. In Milly’s teens her father operated, then purchased one of the first movie theatres near their home, eventually taking over operations of several surrounding cinemas. By the time the Depression hit, he owned more than twenty Parker Cinemas up and down the east coast. Parker Cinemas boomed during the 30’s and Mr. Parker sold the chain to Warner Bros. when he retired just before World War II. He had influence in the films that were shown in his theatres which gave him access to some movie industry elites including a few movie moguls and celebrities.

Milly attended private schools, but kept friends in many strata of life. Her best childhood friends were Clara, the daughter of her apartment building doorman and her school chum Henry Rudd, nephew of JD Rockefeller. Milly found high school pedantic and as a voracious reader and a charismatic confabulator, she was able to convince her teachers to let her graduate early to “just get on with life.” She expected to participate in her graduation, but was invited by Henry on a last-minute folly to voyage from New York to Liverpool with is family aboard the Ellerman Line’s brand new SS City of Paris during her sea trials. With a full complement of staff and only one tenth of the ship’s passenger capacity on board, Henry and Milly took full advantage of the opportunity to not only explore every nook of the ship from which they weren’t shooed away, but also to partake in all of the luxuries that were lavished upon them. During the voyage they were a bit blindsided when their youthful friendship bloomed into affection and they became more than just chums.

Milly had planned to return home directly, but after traveling around England with Henry and falling-in with several of his compatriots from Cambridge, whom she called “people of big appetites for both food and ideas” she remained in London for an extended period. She would insist later in life it was to pursue a pass degree in English at Girton Women’s College Cambridge, but those who knew her well said she clearly wanted to stay in close proximity to Henry. During that time Milly, Henry and her new-found merry band would bundle off to Paris for weeks at a time where the sensibilities (or lack thereof) of the Années Folies were in full swing. Milly found herself folded in to the crowd that gathered for Gertrude Stein’s impromptu salons. Henry was enamored with the salon crowd, but Milly preferred the after-parties and stopped attending the salons altogether once they became too erudite, opting for the wildly feral late-night discussions that somehow always ended on the roof of the Hotel Le Bristol where the gang generally headquartered themselves. Eventually she and Henry drifted apart romantically, but stayed in touch through their entire lives.

A few classes away from completing her pass degree, Milly returned to the states for what was supposed to be a brief visit to attend the opening night of her friend George Kaufman’s new play on Broadway. While in New York, she met travel writer Richard Halliburton and pilot Moye Stephens through acquaintance Douglas Fairbanks (who pursued Milly on and off after they met sharing a cigarette in the alley behind the Rivoli Theatre when the world-premiere crowd for his newest movie became too madding. Although very private about the true nature of their relationship, friends said they would disappear for days at a time when Doug came to town.)

After a post-cocktail-party conversation that lasted nearly 18-hours and spanned three speakeasies ending with eggs, cigarettes and “breakfast martinis” at Chumley’s, Halliburton and Stephens insisted Milly join them on the next leg of their “flying carpet expedition” (that would later become Halliburton’s well known book, The Royal Road to Romance.) Milly convinced herself she would return to her coursework after the trip and agreed to go along. A few weeks later at the appointed rendezvous in England, on a chilly Christmas morning she climbed aboard Moye Stephens’ open cockpit Stearman C-3B breezily abandoning her belongings on the tarmac when it became obvious the trunk would not fit in the plane’s diminutive cargo hold.

After a year or more of hopscotching across Spain, Morocco and northern Africa the high-spirited threesome was grounded with mechanical problems in a desolate fuel stop 50 miles south of Tripoli. Officials from a nearby desert village sent out word and an Italian military caravan diverted to pick up the travelers who were somewhat reluctant to leave the exuberant hospitality of the locals. Stephens stayed with the plane while Halliburton accompanied Milly to arrange her passage back to the US. He needn't bothered. While traveling with the caravan, Milly secured a berth in the officer’s quarters on a Regia Marina cargo ship headed to Algiers by besting its commander in several games of hocca along the way. Once in Algiers she boarded the RMS Aquitania for passage back to America, adjusting to the fact that she would no longer be the “playful mascot” on the bridge; a privilege she enjoyed while aboard the Italian military cargo ship.

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During the long days at sea aboard the Aquitania, Milly heard rumors that the second class lounge was featuring an American jazz trio. Finding jazz much more compelling than the string quartet that lullabyed the first class guests on their after-dinner promenade, Milly and several other travelers turned accomplices snuck their way down to Deck 4 most evenings and even occasionally smuggled a few of their new found second class friends up to Milly’s parlor for animated debates on jazz v. “real music.” It was one of these evening that Milly found Alexander Dollar amongst the crowd in her parlor. He was staunchly, yet playfully a member of the “real music” camp and Milly became smitten as they exchanged barbs and counterpoints tit for tat. Alex was returning to Philadelphia from a business trip in North Africa on behalf of his family’s shipping business.

Milly followed Alex to the Philadelphia area and invited herself to lodge in a guest house on her brother’s estate there. During a long courtship she and Alex spent a few seasons “corrupting” her nieces and nephews with spontaneous train trips to New York and occasionally Washington DC. The couple treated the teens as contemporaries instead of children; skipping the typical sights in exchange for explorations of more obscure destinations like poetry readings, experimental theatre and long quiet hours in the ornate public library where the youth would pour over books and contemporary magazines to sharpen their forensic skills that would be tested at the next late night dinner with Aunt Milly, “Uncle” Alex and guests twice their age.

During her time in Philadelphia, Milly reconnected with her childhood friend, Clara, after she had mailed Milly a small packet of writings, drawings, clips and musings she and Milly had collected in their youth for a never-realized scrapbook. Milly invited Clara to lunch at the Oak Room and discovered that Clara had continued to write into her adulthood. Milly was able to parlay Clara’s talent into an entry level job for her as proofreader and copywriter for the New York University Press through an “uncle in every way, but blood” who sat on the board of directors. Still girls at heart, the pair fell back into close friendship and saw each other frequently.

While proofing a departmental manuscript, Clara became acquainted with Jonathan Stoker the assistant head of the Mathematical Sciences department at the university. Over the academic year, the acquaintance blossomed into a relationship and the pair were soon married. Jonathan, Clara, Milly and Alex became a galvanized foursome easily falling into a pally friendship.

Milly and Alex continued to court while Jonathan was sought by the British Royal Engineers to oversee the administration of the newly founded Maclagan Engineering College in India’s Punjab Province. It was never a question that Milly and Alex would be excitedly encouraged to accompany the couple as they established a new home on the sub-continent. Milly jumped at the invitation, but Alex held back. His family’s business was booming and he felt it was time to focus on business pursuits and called the trip “just folly.” Their relationship wobbled as the disagreement persisted. Alex cared for Milly deeply and in an effort to tame the relationship that was spinning away from him, he rather abruptly proposed to Milly one night at dinner. Milly gently rebuffed. The relationship became clunky after that and the couple spent less and less time together eventually letting go completely.

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Milly decided to join Clara and Jonathan without Alex. Within a few months she found herself in Lahore, India attending parties at the government houses of the Indian Civil Service officers, many of whom’s sons were studying at the college where Alex was working.

During a Christmas holiday, the Under Secretary of Punjab Province invited several academic families and their friends to accompany his family on a trip to the Christmas Festival in Bandra. Expecting their first child, Jonathan and Clara opted to stay in Lahore, but the Under Secretary made a special effort to assure Milly she was quite welcome on her own. A mathematics graduate student Ishan Ghosh was assigned to Milly as a travel escort and on the train down to Bombay she developed a quick bond with him. Ishan, a British national, had been raised in India and Milly was beguiled by the way he navigated the narrow, noisy streets around the train station in Bombay as he searched doggedly among the vendors for the orange that Milly had casually mentioned as being her favorite Christmastime treat. When settling on a mango which Ishan conceded “at least had a similar hue”, the pair realized they had ventured far too deeply into the city to make it back in time for the departing connection to Bandra. Fluent in Urdu, Ishan made quick work of a Plan B by engaging a rickshaw puller. Before dinnertime they had checked into rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel with Ishan’s promise to have the chef prepare Milly’s mango for dessert. After hearing their story, the chef surprised the pair with a three course dessert: orange parfaits, orange mascarpone and oranges flambé.

One day in Bombay stretched into two and two into many. Although they kept both guest rooms rented, only one showed signs of much use. Eventually they sent word ahead to their party in Bandra that they would be Christmasing in Bombay and made arrangements to have their travel trunks delivered to them at The Taj. They had settled in quite easily to their daily schedule of exploring the city, spirited conversation in the evenings around the piano in the hotel lounge with other guests, followed by lengthy dinners prepared by their new favorite chef.

When they had nearly exhausted the sights of Bombay, Milly was approached by Sydney Gorrie, a hotel guest that had caught Milly’s attention in the ladies day room with her cerebral tea-time discussions on modern feminist philosophy. Sydney suggested that Milly and Ishan travel with her to Hyderabad for an upcoming charity ball. Still having some time before classes recommenced, Ishan agreed and two days later the three of them gathered on the front steps of the Hyderabad Government House for a photo as they entered the grand ballroom of the National Collegiate Board’s Annual Charity Gala. During the six hour long festivities, Milly was introduced to Annie Besant the founder of the National Collegiate Board. Finding Milly easier to talk to than the “guests of obligation”, Annie kept circling back to Milly. Deeper into the party, Milly manage to scuttle the hostess outside to the side garden where the two smoked cigarettes in the dark as Annie told stories of her women’s rights activism and provocative feminist writings.

When it came time for Ishan and Milly to head back to Lahore, Annie was unwilling to let the conversation end. She invited Milly to stay-on in Hyderabad offering her one of the many accommodations on her expansive estate where she and her staff managed the philanthropic work of the Collegiate Board as well as hosted many artists and writers. Captivated by the intellectual vortex of art and non-conformity that swirled around everyone Milly had met through Annie, she told Ishan to let Clara know she would be staying “for a time” in Hyderabad. After much cajoling to get Milly to accompany him, Ishan reluctantly returned to Lahore without her to continue his classes.

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Annie and Milly spent most days together, each energized by the other. Annie engaged Milly in assisting her to compile her writings into a book. Milly was positively absorbed by the project. Over time, Milly also began organizing Annie’s work with local women’s rights groups and read every book on feminism she could find on the estate. During this time Milly wanted to share these new ideas with Clara and sent her some samples of Annie’s writings. Clara encouraged Milly to send more and eventually Clara sent the most provocative pieces back to an editor at the New York University Press. They were soon published and Annie was invited to New York to share her work at a gathering of the National Women’s Party. A few days before Annie and Milly were to leave for America, Milly received a letter from Alex. Alex had been missing Milly deeply and desperately wanted to find a way to reconnect. He had heard she left Lahore, but he did not know where she ended up. A friend pointed out a mention of Milly in the byline of one of Annie’s articles and Alex took a chance that a letter might reach Milly if he sent it care of the National Collegiate Board in Hyderabad. The letter reminded Milly of all the reasons she originally fell for Alex and it compelled her heart to tug in his direction. There was no way to respond since Milly knew a return letter would arrive in America after she did. She would just have to wait to contact him until she was back in the states.

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Milly reached out to Alex soon after Annie had finished her work at the conference. Alex invited them all to visit in Philadelphia, but Annie opted to remain in New York with her adopted son Jiddu who had accompanied them on the journey and was anxious to see all that New York had to offer.

Milly settled once again at her brother’s to be close to Alex hoping that Annie was not feeling rushed to return to India. During this time Milly and Alex rekindle their relationship, spending most nights dining out together. Milly’s days were spent compiling and editing the ever growing body of Annie’s work into articles which she fed to press contacts she made at the National Women’s Party conference. Through this group of women Milly was invited to functions at the New York Women’s Press Club where she became well known for her wit, lively conversation and astonishing stories of her travels. They insisted she join and when the press club’s magazine The Pen Women lost its assistant editor, Milly’s name was immediately brought up for consideration. She took the job only after receiving Annie’s blessing to stay in the US, promising to continue to find outlets for publishing Annie’s work.

Milly was torn between her love in Philadelphia and her work in New York. She adored working on the magazine, but missed her evenings with Alex. Alex was not about to let Milly get away again and made a bold gesture that ultimately won him Milly’s heart. He offered to move is office to the Dollar Shipping Company’s New York building so Milly could continue her work and they could remain together. Milly saw the veiled marriage proposal for what it was and exuberantly agreed. The pair moved in to a townhouse on the Upper East Side and left for work every morning holding hands while they walked all the way to 57th street where they parted company for the day.

Not long after the lazy patterns of newlywed life kicked in, the Dollar Shipping Company landed a contract to be the primary shipper for the new Dutch rubber harvest operations in the Putumayo River region along the Peru/Brazil border. Alex was called upon to head to Manaus to set up their offices there. This time it was Milly that was reluctant to leave. After much hand wringing by Milly, the publisher of The Pen Women assuaged Milly’s concerns and let her know her job would be there for her when they returned. They also encouraged Milly to consider writing her own articles and submit them while they were in South America.

The move to Manaus was no trifle of a journey. Milly and Alex flew aboard Pan American to Caracas, Venezuela then traveled aboard one of the Dollar cargo ships around the east coast of South America and up the Amazon River to the surprisingly cosmopolitan city of Manaus. Others they met along the way were surprised to know that neither the transcontinental flight nor the voyage aboard a cargo ship were firsts for Milly.

They settled in a house provided for them in the Adrianópolis neighborhood and it took Milly little time to connect with fellow expats in the area. Her method was to say yes to every invite to tea among the local aristocracy, magnates and diplomats and then befriend any women who she never saw at any of those parties.

The large house came with resident help, which was a boon for Milly since this was her first experience with running a large home. Milly particularly liked one of the young cooks named Mururi. She was from an indigenous tribe called the Witoto. Milly saw brightness behind Mururi’s eyes that intrigued her. Although Mururi only spoke her indigenous language and a few words of Dutch and Portuguese, Milly engaged her in conversation anyway. She was absolutely willing to include gesticulations and pantomime to get her ideas across. Mururi was enthralled by Milly and appreciated the extra attention. They hadn’t lived in Manaus for long before Mururi was mastering some English and even reading a few words. Alex and Milly took Mururi under their wing and began to treat her more like one of the Philadelphia nieces than kitchen help. She went with them on some of their outings and they included her when they invited their friends over for dinner. Milly continually asked Mururi to take them to meet her Witoto family, but she was respectfully turned down each time. Milly sent an article about Mururi back home and it was eventually published in The Pen Women as a travel log.

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About the time Milly was feeling at home, but also longing to know when they might be returning to New York, Alex contracted malaria while overseeing the dock expansion and died very suddenly. The shock was tremendous and the added complication of living in a remote city in the jungle compounded the devastation for Milly. Her small cadre of American friends quickly came to her aid and helped Milly deal with the unexpected tragedy. There was no way to transport the body quickly, so Milly had to make arrangements to bury Alex in Manaus. Although not churchgoers, Milly accepted the offer from the nearby Church of St. Sebastian to hold a small service in their side chapel. One afternoon after the tumult had died down, Mururi led an exhausted Milly to a small bench under a tree in the yard. There she made a circle around Milly from exotic flower petals and placed a small pouch of white powder she called yakoana in Milly’s hand. They had never covered the vocabulary around death and mourning, so Mururi had to use their modified gesture language to explain to Milly that she should put the powder under her tongue to take away the sting of grief. Milly did not have the strength to protest and did as she was told. Milly never learned what was in the powder. All she knew was she awoke the next morning tucked in her bed feeling very well-rested and very peaceful.

Alex’s family arranged for Milly’s return home. Milly left Mururi in charge of closing up the house and shipping her belongings with the promise to have Mururi come visit her in America once the task was completed. Milly found comfort and renewed energy at The Pen Women offices. She worked long hours continuing her assistant editor duties as well as submitting a few articles from her time in the Amazon. The townhome seemed too large now, so Milly moved to smaller quarters closer to work. Once she had resettled, she sent for Mururi and the two enjoyed a summer exploring the East Coast through Mururi’s fresh eyes. With Milly’s continued tutelage Mururi was now nearly fluent in English and Milly offered to enroll the bright young woman in the girl’s secondary boarding school near Philadelphia that Milly’s nieces had attended. Mururi heartily accepted. Inspired by Mururi’s dedication to her studies, Milly decided it was time to take the remaining classes that would complete her degree in English studies. Through her connections with Clara and Jonathan at New York University she received special commendation to enroll in just the classes she needed. Within a couple of years she had her degree which gave her a satisfied feeling of completion.

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Around this time Milly received an invitation to speak about her time with Annie Besant to the Los Angeles Women’s Press Club through a photojournalist friend Margaret Bourke-White whom she had met in Hyderabad when Margaret was covering Annie and the suffrage movement in India. Having been editing, writing and studying non-stop for a number of years, Milly decided a trip to slower-paced Southern California was well deserved.

Her brother’s youngest daughter (and Milly’s namesake niece), Mildred (Millie) Parker, got word of Milly’s forthcoming trip and invited her to visit on her way out west. Milly delighted at the idea of reconnecting with the wildest of her nieces who had left Philadelphia immediately after college. Determined to do everything on her own, “Little Millie” made her own way west by working in a string of train station Harvey Houses until she landed in Denver where she got a job working in the kitchen of Colorado Women’s College as she pursued a master's degree in creative writing.

Since Little Millie refused any monetary assistance, Aunt Milly thought she could give her niece a leg-up by connecting her with the few Denver Women’s Press Club members she had heard of through her work at the magazine. Aunt Milly insisted on sharing some of Millie’s writings with the ladies of the club and soon after Milly’s visit, young Millie was taken under the wing of several members of the club. They encouraged Millie and offered help in ways that allowed her to keep her fiery independence.

Suffering from undiagnosed fatigue and malaise, Margaret Bourke-White had rented a house in Playa Del Rey in Los Angeles for several months. Milly fell-in easily to Margaret’s breezy lifestyle on the water. They visited many art openings, salons and movie premieres. Margaret quizzing Milly about her time in India working with Annie and Milly countering with endless questions of Margaret’s coverage of the war.

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During one of their jaunts into Hollywood, Milly was recognized by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. at a movie premiere. He had met Milly a time or two when he traveled east with his father. He hadn’t seen Milly since his father died and he was anxious to know if all the wonderful things his father had said about her were true. He invited Milly and Margaret over for dinner with a few friends.

At that dinner Milly met Robert Surtees an accomplished cinematographer who was recently signed to be Director of Photography for an upcoming Arcola Pictures film. He was particularly interested in Milly’s vast travel experience as the production crew was about to set off for several months of shooting in Bora-Bora and Robert had never traveled abroad. Robert and his wife Maydell wanted to hear more and asked Milly and Margaret over for a nightcap after the dinner. A friendship blossomed and Milly found herself invited to the Arcola Pictures lot for a tour and lunch. It was there that Robert mentioned that due to the extended shooting schedule the studio was offering to bring his family along for the duration. He asked Milly if she might be willing to help Maydell with their two young children in exchange for a tropical vacation. Having already taken so much time away from her assistant editor duties in New York, Milly hesitated. She conferred with a melancholy Margaret who was discovering whatever ailed her was not being cured by sunshine and moist ocean air. Margaret reminder her that women like them “are not meant to be still.”

Fueled by Margaret’s wisdom, Milly explained to her publisher it was time for someone else to have the opportunity to work on such an impactful and important publication. They only partially accepted her resignation, insisting that she forever stay a member of the writing pool. Milly agreed.

Once again Milly found herself on a long ocean voyage, but this time across the warm Pacific. The staff onboard provided respite care for the children, so Milly’s duties were minimal. But even after they arrived in the Pacific Islands Milly discovered the Surtees’ had overestimated their family’s need for additional help. Maydell asked Milly to do less and less and eventually their time together became more social than anything else.

Milly loved watching the hustle and bustle of the crew and actors, but her charisma and uninhibited nature didn’t allow her to blend in on the edges of the crowd. Before she knew it she was being included in conversations, lunches and even after work revelry. Although still compelled to be a part of the action Milly surprised herself as she began to feel drawn to the quieter people and smaller groups and even occasionally found pleasure in walking the secluded nearby beaches all by herself. With so much time on her hands, she crafted her writings more precisely and uncharacteristically took time for rewrites before mailing her articles back to New York.

During one of her early morning writing sessions a gust of wind lifted the papers from her lap as she sat outside the Surtees’ palapa. A gentleman that was walking by the row of stilted houses rushed to help Milly recover her papers. His name was Pike Emory, Jr. and he was a geologist from the US Geological Survey sent to Bora Bora to study the chain of volcanoes along the Leeward Islands. He had, of course, heard there was a Hollywood movie being shot on the island, but didn’t know much about it. Milly offered to take him to the set and show him around. Milly (as well as everyone he was introduced to) was charmed by Pike’s quiet, yet radiant demeanor and his sparkling aqua colored eyes. Pike had to attend to his research, but as often as he could he found reasons to be “coincidentally” walking by Milly’s hut or drifting near the set. Very little of the hours they found together was spent talking to each other. Their companionship possessed a quiet understanding. They were perfect company and didn’t need to work at explaining why.

Looking for more opportunities to spend time together, Milly began accompanying Pike on some of his research treks near the dormant volcanos nearby and she proved herself valuable by being a quick study with Pike’s theodolite and other surveying tools. She did not mind making the exacting notations in his voluminous research journals and found she had a head for geometry.

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Although the big stars of the film had a tendency to keep to themselves, they sensed that Milly had a genuine confidence and charm that made her stand out from “needy” show biz people. As a result Marlon Brando included Milly on the guest list for his wrap party aboard a small sea yacht that took the cruisers to nearby Teti'aroa for the day, a small island that Marlon was considering buying. She brought Pike along and again found herself sitting quietly next to Pike, away from the fray, on the roof of the pilot house, the wind whipping their silvering hair into tangled messes.

With the last of the production being packed up, it was time to board a ship back to Los Angeles. Pike asked Milly to stay on to help him finish his research. He swayed her with the promise of an upcoming trip to Japan where he would be meeting up with fellow geologist Kiguma Murata to finalize their paper. Milly didn’t need much persuading since the easy flow of island life and the rigors of Pike’s research satisfied both her contrasting contemplative and analytical sensibilities.

By the time Pike was wrapping up his work on the island, Milly had transformed into a long-haired bohemian islander. Her skin had turned a tawny brown and her hair was an unruly nest that she pretended to control with beaded hair ties she bought from the locals. Since there were no commercial airports in the region, the trip to Japan was a hopscotch of small prop planes over the islands to Patpeet, Tahiti, where they boarded a French research cargo plane to Hawaii. During their short stay on Oahu, Milly’s fruitless attempt to civilize her hair ended with her shrugging to the hair dresser, “Just cut it all off.” In an era of big hair, Milly’s yet to be named pixie cut made her even more conspicuous.

Pike and Milly boarded one of Japan Airline’s first transcontinental flights that stopped in Honolulu on its way to Tokyo.

As soon as they were settled in Tokyo, Pike’s research partner, Kiguma Murata, insisted they accompany him to a social gathering of expats, university and government people. Although it sounded formal in its description the event turned out to be surprisingly casual. Among the many people Milly and Pike were introduced to that evening, was Jirō Shirasu a writer for The Japan Advertiser, an English language newspaper. When inevitably Kiguma and Pike’s conversation turned to their current paper, Jirō and Milly swapped press club stories and inevitably the conversation circled back to Milly’s extensive travels. While recounting the tale of how she convinced a police officer near Cambridge to give her a ride on the back of his motorcycle because she was running late for class. Jirō pulled on the thread to discover that Milly dated his Cambridge classmate Henry Rudd. Milly was thrilled at the connection and was happy to hear some news about her boyfriend from all those years ago.

During their time in Tokyo much of Pike’s days were spent in meetings and writing, but when they did have free time Jirō and his wife Masako Shirasu were their first choice in companions. Masako was an artist with a cutting edge aesthetic and Milly relished their long talks when the foursome would venture out to their country home, Buaiso, on the weekends.

Milly’s time in Japan was rich with art, conversation, writing and the deep learning that comes with living once again in a new culture. The affection she and Pike had for each other took on the patina of marriage, but neither expressed a need to formalize the relationship. When Pike and Kiguma’s paper was finally published, the USGS wasted no time in assigning Pike to his next project near Tokyo at the caldera island of Nishinoshima. Pike asked Milly to go with him.

She pondered it, but felt the last several months with Pike had been so perfect that she didn’t want to add a coda and potentially ruin the perfect ending. Pike was disappointed, but understood Milly so deeply, her response did not surprise him. Milly promised to write and she kept that promise, writing to Pike regularly for the rest of her life.

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Once she was back stateside, Milly lingered in Los Angeles for a little while, checking in on Margaret whose mysterious symptoms had started to point hauntingly toward Parkinson's. Milly took the time to help Margaret travel back to Connecticut where she could be near her family and pursue a more hopeful diagnosis.

On her train trip down to New York, Milly reconnected with Mururi who was raising her family with her husband on a small orchard near Gardners, Pennsylvania. Milly enjoyed seeing Mururi so prosperous and happy. When asked what she might be able to do for the couple, Mururi told her she had already done it.

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Manhattan seemed a bit fast-paced for Milly’s sensibilities now, so she cleaned out her apartment and asked after “her” cottage on her brother’s estate. His son was running most things nowadays and assured Milly the cottage will forever be Aunt Milly’s place whenever she needed it. She settled in there once again.

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Train service into the city was becoming less frequent and to keep her independence intact, Milly decided it was time to learn to drive. Instead of taking lessons, she just went out and bought a brand new white Oldsmobile Delta Royale convertible. She sat in the dealer’s lot going over the controls remembering what she observed when Margaret drove them around Los Angeles. When she felt it was time, she “just turned the key and drove.” And drive she did. Milly drove and drove. At first it was mostly into the city to lunch with some of her press friends, but soon she was driving past the city, into the country, along the coast, over the hills and even through snow. She visited every friend, family member and acquaintance within a 150 mile radius usually keeping the top down except on the most frigid of days. Around this time Clara and Jonathan returned from India and were living in Washington DC. Milly drove down to see them while two of their grown children were visiting for Thanksgiving (a third still lived in India.)

Milly’s Oldsmobile circle ever widened and when she ran out of people to visit in the east, she began making broad loops through the Midwest. When she wanted to visit a city, but couldn't come up with anyone to visit, she would just drop by the local newspaper or women’s press club and make new friends on the spot.

After years of hard driving her Delta Royale’s drive train began to fail and so did Milly’s eyesight. After nearly 150,000 miles on the open road Milly’s confidence waned when she accidently drove off the road by miscalculating the distance to the exit ramp. Her traveling circles became smaller and eventually she was sticking to the familiar roads near her cottage. Her second driving mishap left her stranded down an embankment out of sight of the road. She sighed, got out and walked the remaining three miles home. She never saw her “great white” again, asking her nephew to sell it without towing it home so she wouldn’t have to see it.

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Unable to do her visiting in person anymore, Milly leaned more heavily on letter writing. She continuously sent notes and cards to keep up with everyone’s news. The postman always had a stack of envelopes for Milly to open. Milly got a surprise one day when one of those envelopes was postmarked Calistoga, California. Milly could not remember meeting anyone from Calistoga. It turned out to be a photograph of Milly, Richard Halliburton and Moye Stephens standing in front of Moye’s C-3B. On the back was scribbled, “Morocco. Marvelous Milly, Rich and me.” A note was included from Moye’s son. After Moye had died his children found the photo. The son remembered his father’s stories of his wild escapades that year and the “marvelous Milly Parker” was mentioned often. Though it took some time, he was able to track down the correct Milly Parker through the Halliburton family and thought she might like to have the photo. She did.

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As her body failed her, Milly kept writing. When arthritis got the best of Milly’s fingers, Mururi brought over a typewriter she had from her school days and Milly continued to slowly peck out travel articles for The Pen Women (and letters to Pike.) That is how her nephew found her one sunny morning when she wouldn’t answer the phone. Slumped in her chair, one finger still on the keyboard. The letter read, “To My Dearest Pike.”

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 6 years ago

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What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?

I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU. I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games. I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.

Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy. I don’t think I can come up with them all. However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating. So here it is, below the cut:

Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list. But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:

Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)

Patricia Briggs

Megan Whalen Turner

Michael Crichton

Marge Piercy

Stephenie Meyer

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Neil Gaiman

K.A. Applegate

Ernest Hemingway

Tamora Pierce

Roald Dahl

Short Stories/Anthologies

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Dubliners, James Joyce

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Who Goes There? John W. Campbell

The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson

Flatland, Edwin Abbott

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

To Build a Fire, Jack London

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier

At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx

The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville

Books (Classics)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Atonement, Ian McEwan

1984, George Orwell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells

The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Books (YA SF)

Young Wizards series, Diane Duane

Redwall, Brian Jaques

The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix

The Giver series, Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Poppy series, Avi

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Tithe, Holly Black

Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Haunted, Gregory Maguire

Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

East, Edith Pattou

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien

The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor

The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Landry News, Andrew Clements

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer

The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb

Generation Dead, Daniel Waters

Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale

Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters

Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes

Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde

Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing

The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray

A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Hope was Here, Joan Bauer

Bunnicula, James Howe

Wise Child, Monica Furlong

Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg

The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer

Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner

Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn

I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende

Summerland, Michael Chabon

The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger

The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck

Liar, Justine Larbalestier

The Doll People, Ann M. Martin

The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron

Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards

Storytime, Edward Bloor

Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

Half Magic, Edward Eager

A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle

The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan

Maximum Ride series, James Patterson

The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle

World War Z, Max Brooks

Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Neuomancer, William Gibson

Dune, Frank Herbert

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth

The Martian, Andy Weir

Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac

Comics/Manga

Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)

Marvel 1610/Ultimates

Persepolis

This One Summer

Nimona

Death Note

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Knight

Emily Carroll comics

Watchmen

Fun Home

From Hell

American Born Chinese

Smile

The Eternal Smile

The Sandman

Calvin and Hobbes

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

TV Shows

Fullmetal Alchemist

Avatar the Last Airbender

Teen Titans (2003)

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher

Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter

Supernatural

Sherlock

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

American Horror Story

Ouran High School Host Club

Orange is the New Black

Black Sails

Stranger Things

Westworld

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Movies

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?

The Breakfast Club

Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox

Attack the Block

The Prestige

Moon

Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera

Primer

THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]

Star Wars

The Meg

A Quiet Place

Baby Driver

Mother!

Alien/Aliens/Prometheus

X-Men (et al.)

10 Things I Hate About You

The Lost Boys

Teen Wolf

Juno

Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)

Die Hard

Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.

Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles

The Matrix

Dark Knight trilogy

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Descent

Ghostbusters

Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13

King Kong

The Conjuring

Fantastic Four

Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall

Fight Club

Spirited Away

Disturbing Behavior

The Faculty

Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marge Piercy

Thomas Hardy

Sigfried Sassoon

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allan Poe

Ogden Nash

Margaret Atwood

Maya Angelou

Emily Dickinson

Matthew Dickman

Karen Skolfield

Kwame Alexander

Ellen Hopkins

Shel Silverstein

Musicals/Stage Plays

Les Miserables

Repo: The Genetic Opera

The Lion King

The Phantom of the Opera

Rent

The Prince of Egypt

Pippin

Into the Woods

A Chorus Line

Hairspray

Evita

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Fiddler on the Roof

Annie

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

Chicago

Cabaret

The Miser

The Importance of Being Earnest

South Pacific

Godspell

Wicked

The Wiz

The Wizard of Oz

Man of La Mancha

The Sound of Music

West Side Story

Matilda

Sweeney Todd

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nunsense

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy

1776

Something Rotten

A Very Potter Musical

Babes in Toyland

Carrie: The Musical

Amadeus

Annie Get Your Gun

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Final Battle

Rock of Ages

Cinderella

Moulin Rouge

Honk

Labyrinth

The Secret Garden

Reefer Madness

Bang Bang You’re Dead

NSFW

War Horse

Peter Pan

Suessical

Sister Act

The Secret Annex

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas. (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it. As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.) There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.

Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here. If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me. Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.

Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations. My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.

Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list. I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic. On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws.

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July 17, 2019: Obituaries

Patricia Mash, 58

Mrs. Patricia Kilby Mash, age 58 of Wilkesboro passed away Thursday, July 11, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.

Private family service will be held at a later date.

Mrs. Mash was born September 23, 1960 in Cabarrus County to Vonley and Rosie Lee Barnette Kilby. Patricia loved her family, especially her children and grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her mother, a daughter; Lisa Marie Lyndsay and a brother; Roger Kilby.

She is survived by her husband; Billy Mash of the home, a son; Bryson Lyndsay of Kannapolis, her father; Vonley Kilby of Millers Creek, two grandchildren; Courtney and Julian and one great grandchild; Corbin, a sister; Lori Kilby of Wilkesboro and two brothers; Bobby Kilby and wife Sharon of China Grove and Vonley Ray Kilby of Millers Creek.

Jimmy Cardwell, 76

Mr. Jimmy Ray Cardwell, age 76 of Boomer passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.

Funeral services were July 12, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel with Pastor Jason Whitley officiating. Burial was in Scenic Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Cardwell was born May 13, 1943 in Wilkes County to Conrad and Sadie Pauline Smithey Cardwell. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam Conflict. He was a carpenter, a "piddler extraordinaire" and a professional grandpa. He was an avid outdoorsman, around the clock super hero and the best man we ever knew.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife; Betty Jean Broyhill Cardwell of 44 years of the home, daughter; Amanda Boyd and husband Brandon of Mulberry, son; Steven Cardwell and wife Amy of Wilkesboro, five grandchildren; Cole Shumate, Jimmy Cardwell, Garrett Shumate, Emma Sutphin and Madison Cardwell, brother; Robert Cardwell and wife Gladys of Millers Creek, four sisters and fur baby; Peyton.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Wounded Warriors Project, 4200 Morganton Road, Suite 200, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

Iris Triplett, 86

Iris Faye Greene Triplett, age 86, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. She was the youngest of six children, born September 4, 1932 in Wilkes County to Grady and Loretta Benge Greene. Mrs. Triplett was a member of Lewis Fork Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Jasper Seagle Triplett; two children, Deborah Sue Lewis and Gary Lynn Triplette; four sisters, Ella Mae Crane, Delores Walker, Veora Eller, Lake Marley; and brother, Roland Greene.

Surviving are her children, Tony Triplette and special friend Jo Johnson of North Wilkesboro, Kevin Triplette and spouse Susie of McGrady, Joyce Kent and fiancé Virgil Anderson, Judy Triplette and fiancé Gary Miller all of North Wilkesboro; eight grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; and one great great grandchild.

Funeral service was July 10, at Lewis Fork Baptist Church with Rev. Dwayne Andrews and Rev. Sherrill Wellborn officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 4600 Park Road #250, Charlotte, NC 28209. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Pallbearers will be Daniel Triplett, Scott Combs, Marty Church, Justus Church, Johnny Triplett and Geramy Triplette.

Larry Reid, 75

Larry Lee Reid, age 75, of Wilkesboro, passed away Monday, July 8, 2019 at Rose Glen Village. He was born June 17, 1944 in Surry County to Thomas Parks and Annie Harris Reid. Larry was a graduate from Appalachian State University with a Master's Degree in History, and was a teacher at Wilkes Central High School. He was also a member of Oakwoods Golf Club where he loved to play golf, he enjoyed bird hunting and fishing.

Surviving are his sons, Matthew James Reid and spouse Donna of Denver, NC, Wesley Paul Reid and spouse Erin of Alexandria, Virginia; grandchildren, Isabella Reid, Adelaide Reid, Landon Jamison Reid, McKenzie Jo Reid; sister, Gail Henkle and spouse Richard; and nieces, Ashley and Allison.

A private family service will be held at a later date. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Dennis Curry, 66

Dennis Joseph Curry, age 66, of Thurmond, passed away Monday, July 8, 2019 at Forsyth Medical Center. He was born July 22, 1952 in Surry County to Girtha and Wessie Lyons Curry. Dennis was a self-employed carpenter for almost 45 years. Mr. Curry was preceded in death by his parents; and great granddaughter, Makenna Cash.

Surviving are his wife, Margaret Billings Curry; daughter, Maryjane Williams and spouse Joey of Rock Creek; son, Daniel Curry of Thurmond; grandchildren, Tiffany Cash of Millers Creek, Joey Williams, Jr., Ashleen Williams both of Rock Creek; great grandchildren, Serenity Williams, Brayden Cash, Emilia Cash all of Millers Creek; brothers, Alvin Curry and spouse Judy of Elkin, Donald Curry and spouse Ann of Thurmond; sisters, Henrietta Curry, Brenda Curry both of Thurmond, Kattie Ray Turley spouse Rennie of Traphill; nephews, Andrew Curry of Thurmond, Zack Turley; niece, Renee Melara; great nephews, Jessen Melara and Damien Brown.

Memorial service was July 14, at Miller Funeral Chapel. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Etta Blackburn, 83

Mrs. Etta Sue Vannoy Blackburn, age 83 of North Wilkesboro passed away Monday, July 8, 2019 at her home.

Funeral services were July 11, at Bethany Baptist Church with Rev. Daniel Shores and Rev. Michael Golden officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Blackburn was born February 4, 1936 in Wilkes County to William Ernest and Victoria Hester Haynes Vannoy. She was a member of Bethany Baptist Church. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband; Eli Jerry Claude Blackburn, two sons; David and Michael Allen McGlamery and two brothers; Harold Dean and James Thomas Vannoy.

She is survived by three sons; Tommy McGlamery and wife Belva of Wilkesboro, Gary McGlamery and wife Wendy and Kevin Blackburn and wife Gail all of North Wilkesboro, nine grandchildren; Matthew McGlamery, Phillip McGlamery, Jerry Taylor, Kristie Winkler, Jason Winkler, Aaron Blackburn, Bethanie Blackburn, Kristen McGlamery, and Katie McGlamery, seven great grandchildren; Arian Winkler, Christian Winkler, Tyler Wheeling, Lydia McGlamery, Maverick McGlamery, Amelia McGlamery and Elijah Blackburn and one brother; Willie Vannoy of North Wilkesboro.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Rosemary Mathis, 5888 River Road/Liberty Grove Road, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659

Carl Smithey, 76

Mr. Carl William Smithey, age 76 of North Wilkesboro passed away Monday, July 8, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist-Wilkes Medical Center.

Funeral services were July 11, at Liberty Grove Baptist Church with Rev. David Sparks officiating. Burial with Masonic Rites by North Wilkesboro Lodge #407 was in the church cemetery.

Mr. Smithey was born October 18, 1942 in Wilkes County to Freddie Brisco and Mary Lucille Anderson Smithey. He was a member of Liberty Grove Baptist Church where he held many positions and was very dedicated to his church, he was also involved in church mission trips including an Alaskian trip.

He worked for Abitibi in Roaring River in maintenance department and was an electrical engineer. He was a Master Mason of North Wilkesboro Lodge #407. He was a representative for Compo Shoe Company of Waltham, MA, a licensed electrical contractor, sole layer for Blue Ridge Shoe Company and worked at Wilkes Electric Armature.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife; Mollie Whitley Smithey of the home, two brothers; Robert Smithey and wife Davida of North Wilkesboro, Roger Smithey and wife

Peggy of Millers Creek, and two sisters-in-law; Anah Lee Whitley Wingler and Shirley Mae Whitley Huie both of Hays. He had many nieces and nephews that he loved very much.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Liberty Grove Fellowship Hall Building Fund, 5899 River Road-Liberty Grove Road, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659.

Bill Rhoades, 81

Bill Warner Rhoades, age 81, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Sunday, July 7, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. He was born July 2, 1938 in Wilkes County to Estel and Maie Barlow Rhoades. Mr. Rhoades was a US Army Veteran and a member of Hilltop Baptist Church. He enjoyed lawn mower, go-kart and drag racing. Bill was preceded in death by his parents; and brothers, Bradley, Jim and Don Rhoades.

He is survived by his wife, Willa Hayes Rhoades; daughter, Elizabeth Rhoades Griffin and spouse William of North Wilkesboro; son, Gwyn Rhoades and spouse Donna of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Cody Griffin and spouse Jessica of Hays, Casey Reavis and spouse Daniel of Millers Creek; great grandchildren, Bailee Griffin, Christian Osborne, Carson Griffin, Sawyer Griffin, Emma Reavis; sister, Marie Mann of North Wilkesboro; and brother, Joe Rhoades and spouse Jean of North Wilkesboro.

Graveside service with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 was July 11, at Mountlawn Memorial Park with Rev. Ronnie Gregory and Rev. Rodney Blake officiating.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-9956 or to Shriners Hospital for Children, Attn: Office of Development, 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, Florida 33607.

Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Bobby Call, age 72

Bobby Arnold Call, age 72, of Wilkesboro, passed away Sunday, July 7, 2019 at his home. He was born December 28, 1946 in Wilkes County to Gertrude Call. Bobby was a retired US Vietnam Army Veteran. He was an Air Defense Artillery Senior Sergeant; 7 years and 7 months 11B50 Infantryman and 7 years 7 months 95B50 Military Police. Bobby received the National Defense Service Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Air Assault Badge, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea), Air Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Army Commendation Medal (1st Oak Leaf Cluster), Good Conduct Medal and NCO Professional Development. He was preceded in death by his mother, Gertrude Call Church; and brother, Tom Call.

Surviving are his son, Bobby Lee Call and fiancé Amanda Renae Church of Hickory; daughter, Rebecca Call and boyfriend, Donnie Foster of Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Bryson Lee Call, James Ethan Call, Monica McKinney, Ashley Faw, Austin McKinney; sisters, Tammy Wilson, Rosie Bouchelle; brother, Thorton "Doc" Call.

Funeral service was July 11, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Pastor David Wellborn and Jimmy McGlamery officiating.

Burial with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 followed in Fishing Creek Arbor Baptist Church Cemetery. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Lisa Baldwin, 53

Lisa Carol Baldwin, age 53, of Thurmond, passed away Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at her home. She was born May 30, 1966 in Surry County to Ted Cox and Carolyn Wagner Roten. Lisa liked to do art and loved spending time with her kids and grandkids.

She was preceded in death by her parents; son, Justin Allen Royal; granddaughter, Hollie Royal.

Surviving are her spouse, Jeff Baldwin of North Wilkesboro; sons, T.J. Royal and spouse Megan of Thurmond, Gary Baldwin of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Lane Royal, Annabelle Royal, Hunter Stotler, Hallie Jo Stotler all of Thurmond, Karli Baldwin of North Wilkesboro; brothers, Ted Cox and spouse Kimberly of Asheville, Barry Cox and spouse Teresa of Pleasant Hill; sister, Betty Jo Sebastian of Jonesville; several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 6:00 until 8:00 Friday, July 19, 2019. Flowers will be accepted. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-9956. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

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Books I Own Part 2

The Ruby Key Lisle, Holly

The Call of the Wild and White Fang London, Jack

The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Lord, Bette Bao

Number the Stars Lowry, Lois

The Giver Lowry, Lois

The Young Elites Lu, Marie

Snow Lynn, Tracy

A Court of Thorns and Roses Maas, Sarah J.

The Diamond Princess Saves the Day 4 Malcolm, Jahnna H.

The Emerald Princess Finds a Fairy 7 Malcolm, Jahnna H.

The Sapphire Princess Meets a Monster 2 Malcolm, Jahnna H.

The Ruby Princess Runs Away 1 Malcolm, Jahnna H.

The Sapphire Princess Hunts for Treasure 6 Malcolm, Jahnna H.

The Jewel Princesses and the Missing Crown 🌟 Malcolm, Jahnna H.

Scorched Mancusi, Mari

A Corner of the Universe Martin, Ann M.

September Surprises 6 Martin, Ann M.

The Secret Book Club 5 Martin, Ann M.

Coming Apart 9 Martin, Ann M.

Special Delivery 8 Martin, Ann M.

A Game of Thrones Martin, George R.R.

A Clash of Kings Martin, George R.R.

If the Shoe Fits 1 Mason, Jane B.

Happy Cafe 1 Matsuzuki, Kou

Happy Cafe 2 Matsuzuki, Kou

Poseur 1 Maude, Rachel

Pretty in Pink 3 Maude, Rachel

The Good, the Fab and the Ugly 2 Maude, Rachel

Urchin of the Riding Stars McAllister, M.I.

Island of Fire 3 McMann, Lisa

The Unwanteds 1 McMann, Lisa

Wake McMann, Lisa

Soundless Mead, Richelle

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess Meyer, Carolyn

Cinder 1 Meyer, Marissa

Cress 3 Meyer, Marissa

Scarlet 2 Meyer, Marissa

Breaking Dawn 4 Meyer, Stephanie

Eclipse 3 Meyer, Stephanie

New Moon 2 Meyer, Stephanie

The Host Meyer, Stephanie

Twilight 1 Meyer, Stephanie

s*a 16 Minami, Maki

s*a 17 Minami, Maki

voice over 10 Minami, Maki

voice over 11 Minami, Maki

voice over 12 Minami, Maki

voice over 9 Minami, Maki

The Final Six Monir, Alexandra

Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M.

Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Utopia More, Thomas

Day 21 2 Morgan, Kass

Homecoming 3 Morgan, Kass

The 100 1 Morgan, Kass

Rebellion 4 Morgan, Kass

The Princess, the Crone and the Dung Cart Knight Morris, Gerald

Dragonwatch 1 Mull, Brandon

Fablehaven 1 Mull, Brandon

Fablehaven(fr) Mull, Brandon

Grip of the Shadow Plague 3 Mull, Brandon

Keys to the Demon Prison 5 Mull, Brandon

Rise of the Evening Star 2 Mull, Brandon

Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary 4 Mull, Brandon

Wild Born 1 Mull, Brandon

The Candy Shop War 1 Mull, Brandon

Wrath of the Dragon King 2 Mull, Brandon

Inherit Midnight Myers, Kate Kay

The Accidental Hero Myklusch, Matt

Love💫Com Nakahara, Aya

skip beat 31 Nakamura, Yoshiki

skip beat 34 Nakamura, Yoshiki

skip beat 35 Nakamura, Yoshiki

skip beat 5 Nakamura, Yoshiki

skip beat 8 Nakamura, Yoshiki

The Enchanted Castle Nesbit, E.

The Phoenix and the Carpet Nesbit, E.

The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It Nesbit, Edith

The Scourge Nielsen, Jennifer A.

The False Prince Nielson, Jennifer A.

Frogkisser Nix, Garth

The Romantic Period Norton

The Twentieth Century and After Norton

The Victorian Age Norton

The Tea Dragon Society O'Neill, Katie

The Civil War Otfinoski, Steven

World War I Otfinoski, Steven

World War II Otfinoski, Steven

The Vietnam War Otfinoski, Steven

Rules for Thieves Ott, Alexandra

To Catch a Pirate Parker, Jade

The Originals Patrick, Cat

The Gift 2 Patterson, James

Witch and Wizard 1 Patterson, James

Dead is a State of Mind 2 Perez, Marlene

Dead is Just a Rumor 4 Perez, Marlene

Dead is Not an Option 5 Perez, Marlene

Dead is So Last Year 3 Perez, Marlene

Dead is the New Black 1 Perez, Marlene

Freak The Mighty Philbrick, Rodman

Dead City Ponti, James

Addy Saves the Day Porter, Connie

Stranded Forbidden Passage Probst, Jeff

Stranded Survivors Probst, Jeff

Stranded the Sabotage Probst, Jeff

Stranded Trial by Fire Probst, Jeff

The Ruby in the Smoke 1 Pullman, Philip

The Shadow in the North 2 Pullman, Philip

Northern Lights 1 Pullman, Philip

The Amber Spyglass 3 Pullman, Philip

The Subtle Knife 2 Pullman, Philip

Anthem Rand, Ayn

Fate of Flames Raughley, Sarah

Mortal Engines Reeve, Philip

Stranger and Stranger Reger, Rob

Fallen Kingdoms Rhodes, Morgan

Hollow City 2 Riggs, Ransom

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 1 Riggs, Ransom

Library of Souls 3 Riggs, Ransom

Half Upon a Time Riley, James

Once Upon the End Riley, James

Twice Upon a Time Riley, James

The Revenge of Magic Riley, James

The Battle of the Labyrinth 4 Riordan, Rick

The Blood of Olympus 5 Riordan, Rick

The House of Hades 4 Riordan, Rick

The Last Olympian 5 Riordan, Rick

The Lightning Thief 1 Riordan, Rick

The Mark of Athena 3 Riordan, Rick

The Red Pyramid 1 Riordan, Rick

The Sea of Monsters 2 Riordan, Rick

The Serpent's Shadow 3 Riordan, Rick

The Son of Neptune 2 Riordan, Rick

The Throne of Fire 2 Riordan, Rick

The Titans Curse 3 Riordan, Rick

The Sword of Summer 1 Riordan, Rick

Demigods & Magicians🌟 Riordan, Rick

The Lost Hero 1 Riordan, Rick

The Fog Diver Ross, Joel N.

The Chamber of Secrets 2 Rowling, J.K.

The Deathly Hallows 7 Rowling, J.K.

The Goblet of Fire 4 Rowling, J.K.

The Half-Blood Prince 6 Rowling, J.K.

The Order of the Phoenix 5 Rowling, J.K.

The Prisoner of Azkaban 3 Rowling, J.K.

The Sorcerer's Stone 1 Rowling, J.K.

Altered 1 Rush, Jennifer

Erased 2 Rush, Jennifer

Luka and the Fire of Life Rushdie, Salman

Zodiac Russell, Romina

The Secret of the Realms Rusu, Meredith

Holes Sachar, Louis

Flyte 2 Sage, Angie

Magyk 1 Sage, Angie

Magyk (fr) Sage, Angie

Physik 3 Sage, Angie

Queste 4 Sage, Angie

Song of the Sparrow Sandell, Lisa Ann

A Drowned Maidens Hair Schlitz, Laura Amy

Spelled Schow, Betsy

Girl Got Game 1 Seino, Shizuru

The Vampire Prince Shan, Darren

Meet Kaya Shaw, Janet

Kaya Shows the Way Shaw, Janet

Kaya's Escape Shaw, Janet

Kaya's Hero Shaw, Janet

Kaya and Lone Dog Shaw, Janet

Changes for Kaya Shaw, Janet

Bad Girls Throughout History Shen, Ann

25 Women Who Thought of it First Sherman, Jill

25 Women Who Fought Back Sherman, Jill

kimi no todoke 4 Shiina, Karuho

kimi no todoke 5 Shiina, Karuho

Intertwined Showalter, Gena

Firstlife Showalter, Gena

Royal Bastards Shvarts, Andrew

Timekeeper Sim, Tara

The Secret of the Attic Sinykin, Sheri Cooper

Don't Tell the Nazis Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

Alcatraz 6 Smith, Roland

Chupacabra 3 Smith, Roland

Cryptid Hunters 1 Smith, Roland

Independence Hall 1 Smith, Roland

Kitty Hawk 3 Smith, Roland

Mutation 4 Smith, Roland

Tentacles 2 Smith, Roland

The End 13 Snicket, Lemony

The Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare, Elizabeth George

Hunted Spooner, Meagan

25 Women Who Ruled Stanborough, Rebecca J.

Unicorns of Balinor 🌟 Stanton, Mary

The Mysterious Benedict Society Stewart, Trenton Lee

An Ember in the Ashes 1 Tahir, Sabaa

A Torch Against the Night 2 Tahir, Sabaa

Fruits Basket 15 Takaya, Natsuki

Fruits Basket 23 Takaya, Natsuki

They Called US Enemy Takei, George

Full Moon 7 Tanemura, Arina

Strange the Dreamer 1 Taylor, Laini

Muse of Nightmares 2 Taylor, Laini

All of a Kind Family Taylor, Sydney

Grimm's Fairy Tales The Brother's Grimm

Ruined Tintera, Amy

The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.

The Unnaturalists Trent, Tiffany

Felicity Saves the Day Tripp, Valerie

Nellie's Promise Tripp, Valerie

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Twiss, Jill

Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry Tyson, Neil deGrasse

Big Hero 6 1 Ueno, Haruki

Save Me a Seat Varadarajan, Gita and Sarah Weeks

The Second Guard Vaughn, J.D.

Pyramid Hunters Vegas, Peter

Heir Apparent Velde, Vivian Vande

Jules Verne Verne, Jules

Elissa's Quest 1 Verrillo, Erica

The Boy in the Dress Walliams, David

The Boxcar Children 1 Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Surprise Island 2 Warner, Gertrude Chandler

The Yellow House Mystery 3 Warner, Gertrude Chandler

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume. – Amy Lowell • A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. – Charles Baudelaire • A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx • A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. – Gertrude Jekyll • A garden is a grand teacher… above all it teaches entire trust. – Gertrude Jekyll • A garden is a symbol of man’s arrogance, perverting nature to human ends. – Tim Smit • A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever. – Richard Briers • A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton • A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it. – Charles Dudley Warner • A garden is the best alternative therapy. – Germaine Greer • A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. – William Kent • A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. – Russell Page • A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. – Liberty Hyde Bailey • A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. – Charles Lamb • A good garden may have some weeds. – Thomas Fuller • A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house. – William H. Coles • A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. – Henri Frederic Amiel • A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us. – Wendell Berry • Alfred Austin said, “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” – Alfred Austin • All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. – Joseph Joubert • All gardening is landscape painting. – William Kent • All my hurts my garden spade can heal. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. – Leslie Hall • As a gardener, I’m among those who believe that much of the evidence of God’s existence has been planted. – Robert Breault • As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive. – Frances Hodgson Burnett

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other. – John Bunyan • Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits. – Wayne Dyer • Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? – Chuck Palahniuk • Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. – Ray Bradbury • Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton • Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them. – Erma Bombeck • Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. – Francis Cabot Lowell • Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? – Francis Cabot • Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor’s. – Mary Cantwell • Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything – except itself. – May Sarton • Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. – Phyllis McGinley • Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. – Lewis Gannett • Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. – John Evelyn • Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. – Henry David Thoreau • Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors. – Oscar de la Renta • Gardening is not a rational act. – Margaret Atwood • Gardening is the best therapy in the world. – C. Z. Guest • Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. – George Bernard Shaw • Gardening requires lots of water… most of it in the form of perspiration. – Louise Erickson • Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. – Allan Armitage • Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. – Rudyard Kipling • Gardens… should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. – H. E. Bates • Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman • God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. – Francis Bacon • God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon • God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. – Abraham Cowley • How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing. – Mary Astell • I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest. – Voltaire • I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. – Beau Bridges • I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact. – Reginald Farrer • I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. – Frances Hodgson Burnett • I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. – Sara Bonnett Stein • I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. – Ian Hamilton Finlay • I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. – Robert Breault • I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden… name things as I find them. – Charles Dudley Warner • I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. – Walt Disney • I don’t take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes. – Kim Wilde • I don’t think we’ll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I’m just as glad there will always be some magic about it! – Barbara Damrosch • I enjoy the cleaning up – something about the getting of things in order for winter – making the garden secure – a battening down of hatches perhaps… It just feels right. – David Hobson • I have a garden, and I’m passionately interested in young people. – Mary Wesley • I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. – Richard K. Diran • I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden. – Pawan Kalyan • I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you. – Boy George • I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It’s a busy kind of life, but I guess I’m lucky. – Brian May • I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. – Jeanette Winterson • I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • I love being in my garden. I don’t plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. – Jacqueline Bisset • I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with – Suzy Bogguss • I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden. – Ruth Stout • I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. – Robert Breault • I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you’ve got started it’s not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you. – Allen Lacy • I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight. – Mark Ruffalo • I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. – Phyllis Grissim-Theroux • I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen? – Peter Tosh • I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. – Joseph Addison • I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’ – Jim Carrey • If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains. – Bill Shankly • If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path. – Fran Drescher • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. – Frances Hodgson Burnett • If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. – Nan Fairbrother • If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. – Robert Brault • In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. – Robert Rodale • In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight. – Charles Dickens • In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm. – Louise Wilder • In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. – Kin Hubbard • In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker • In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life. – Luis Barragan • It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. – W. C. Sellar • It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. – Robert Breault • It’s amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again. – Roger Taylor • I’ve always felt that you can’t do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it. – David Hobson • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde • Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne • Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust • May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. – Nhat Hanh • My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old. – Epicurus • Nature abhors a garden. – Michael Pollan • Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away! – Rudyard Kipling • Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. – Herbert V. Prochnow • One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie • Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing ‘Oh how wonderful’ and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives. • People are always asking, “What’s the purpose of life?” That’s easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. – Dan Barker • Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore • Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran • So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. – Jorge Luis Borges • Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path – Jean Anouilh • Some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. …it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings. – D.E. Stevenson • Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London – 21 Blenkarne Road – with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, ‘I want it.’ – Susannah York • St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. “I would finish hoeing my garden,” he replied. – Francis of Assisi • Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not. – Jerry Baker • Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry • Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin • The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig. – Texas Bix Bender • The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. – Loretta Lynn • The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I’m always at home – yea, I’m always at Om. – Eden Ahbez • The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. – Larry Dossey • The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan • The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural. – Lawrence Halprin • The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. – Gertrude Jekyll • The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll • The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. – Vita Sackville-West • The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before. – Vita Sackville-West • The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. – Michael Pollan • The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. – Sylvia Browne • The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. – Henry David Thoreau • There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a ‘natural way’. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners. – Henry Mitchell • There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin • There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross • There is peace in the garden. Peace and results. – Ruth Stout • They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! – Louise Jameson • To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment. – Eleanor Perenyi • To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn • Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden. – Orson Scott Card • We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. – Evelyn Underhill • We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul’s three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish. – St. Catherine of Siena • Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! – Toots Thielemans • What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. – Charles Dudley Warner • What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights. – William Lawson • When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned. – Thomas Church • Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds? – Bill Vaughan • Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul. – Spencer W. Kimball • Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps. – Amos Bronson Alcott • Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. – Amos Bronson Alcott • Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. – Robert Breault • Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. – Jim Rohn • Your garden will reveal yourself. – Henry Mitchell

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