Greetings after a short trip to Boston and the Cape (yay!) and some weeks afterwards to manage my mom’s hospitalization and recovery. I expect this pattern to continue, so I will write as I am able and invite any of you to submit guest posts for us to read in between times. Let me know … More Remembering Our Revolutionary Heroes: Ancestral Stories for July 4th
And the fiery whirlwind, fierce and vastHurried away in the mouldering past. “Ashes of Roses,” George M. Baker The Great Boston Fire of 1872 started in a six-story granite building and burned through downtown Boston for two days, destroying 776 buildings over 65 acres. Eleven firemen and fifteen civilians were killed. The monetary loss was … More Ashes of Roses: Hope Amidst Destruction
Our Emilie Loring Tea is just days away! Our Emilie Loring Tea is this Thursday, September 5th. Send your photos and stories to: contact@pattibender.com I’ll begin posting at 4:00 p.m. EST and continue until everyone’s photos and stories are in. I can’t wait to see what you come up with this year! For that matter, … More Nostalgia, Fun, and Plans for Tea!
Greetings from rainy Wisconsin! I write this from my family’s lakefront cottage, currently in a deluge. This is where I first read many of Emilie Loring’s novels, purchased at Schultz Bros. and read on the lazy days of summer. On rainy days now, I poke through trunks and boxes in the basement. I must get … More Discover 1889 Summer Reading: Emilie Loring’s Literary Inspirations and More
While memory is fresh, I want to share my last discoveries during this trip to Boston. Today, I began in Mount Auburn Cemetery which is famous for the remarkable monuments that can be seen there. I’m sure there are many photos of these in books and online. Here are just a few that caught my … More One Last Discovery Before I Leave Boston
I have another mystery to solve. Can you help? Among the Loring photos is this snapshot of “Baker Cottage, Chester, 1916.” Clue: Baker Cottage Who are the man and woman in the photo? Did Emilie and Victor visit a Baker Cottage in Chester? If not they, then who? Emilie Loring was born a Baker, but … More Moonlight Mystery at the Baker Cottage
It astonishes the simple, excites the interest of the curious, and presents a problem to the student. Nothing so universally commands the attention of all ages and classes of people. … More Fish Stories from the Vault
The Emilie Loring Collection 