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!
My grandpa’s fourth grade reader changed my notions of what children read at the turn of the last century. I don’t know of any fourth grade, mine included, that assigns Daniel Defoe to nine and ten year olds. Emilie Loring and my grandfather, although a generation apart, both studied the classics as a matter of … More What the Children Read
Every now and then, life sends an unexpected gift. This time, mine came in the form of an article written for the Boston Authors Club newsletter by one of its members, Scott B. Guthery. I would never have seen it but for the thoughtfulness of Ray Anthony Shepard, whom I know through our Boston Biographers … More Emilie Loring, A Perennial Best Selling Novelist
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
Did Victor Loring have a sense of humor? Did he have a silly side? Was he romantic? How was he as a dancer? Thanks to Loring family photos, we get to see more of the private Victor. … More Not “Just Victor”: Beyond the Public Portrait
A challenge in writing Emilie Loring’s biography was to discern the importance of events as they occurred. To do this, I needed to understand what Emilie would have understood. This article from the Boston Post, June 24, 1920, is an example. Who were the “YD”s? Why was Emilie’s opinion printed? Was Emilie involved in this … More It’s 1920, and We’re Not There
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