No surprise, we are an eclectic group of readers who have found our way to Emilie Loring! Here are our survey results: How old were you when you read your first Emilie Loring book? Sixty percent of us had read an Emilie Loring book before our twentieth birthday. AND at every decade, Emilie Loring has … More How We Got Here: Our Survey Results
“We haven’t any money to spend, but we have love and time and an opulent imagination…” … More “Her Christmas Ships” by Emilie Loring
Habits die hard, especially when they are reinforced, as my research habit was recently. I had a few minutes to myself and thought, “I wonder if there are any newly digitized pages in the Maine newspaper database.” (You know, like everyone thinks sometimes.) And there were! The danger of finding new information, of course, is … More But Wait! There’s Still More!
Happy Landings Goes to the Printer Welcome back from Thanksgiving week! I am happy to report that Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom has gone to the printer. It’s going to be a pretty book: sky-blue jacket wrapped around a flag-blue hardcover with silver lettering. I can’t wait to hold it in my … More ‘Tis the Season: Happy Landings and a New Quiz
Things have a marvelous, unbelievable way of working out. The Trail of Conflict Emilie is right again. I get to bring my mother to my home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and her 96th birthday in January. It means a bit of travel and some setting up, which would have made this and next weekend’s posts harder … More Loring Heroes and Heroines: Test Your Knowledge
Today’s post is for you who follow this blog and tell me how much you’d love to see Maine yourself. In Blue Hill this year, I visited friends, made little discoveries, and snapped photos that speak of the place, of Emilie’s times and ours. If you’ve read Emilie Loring’s descriptions of Maine for years, you … More Welcome to Maine. You’re Already Here in Your Mind
A recent communication from a reader in Greece got me thinking about Emilie Loring’s popularity around the world. Fay wrote: Her novels are really an oasis, a delightful way to travel back in another time, yet they are still appealing to the modern reader. That’s such an important message. “Now, more than ever, we need … More Emilie Loring’s World-Wide Appeal
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