“You never can tell at sunup what you’ll bump into before sundown…” Here Comes the Sun Since my last post, I have torn out carpet, rejuvenated wood floors, patched and painted walls, scrubbed just about anything that would sit still long enough, cooked meals, hung curtains, sorted books, rescued an antique dresser, shopped for furniture … More Emilie Loring: Bookstores and Secret Drawers
The pearl. The prize. The event I had imagined since first I stepped into the library where Emilie Loring wrote twenty-five of her thirty novels: the Boston Athenaeum. … More Happy Landings at the Boston Athenaeum
For most of her career, Emilie Loring lived on Boston’s Beacon Hill and wrote at the Boston Athenaeum, a private library with a long history. This year, her great-granddaughter Kate and I visited. In Emilie Loring’s Footsteps We take the elevator together to the storied fifth floor. The doors open, and we read the sign. … More Found: Emilie Loring at the Boston Athenaeum
The room is empty only of people. It is, in a sense, an archive of a moment. If we understood it better, what would it tell us? … More Photographs and Reveries
Think back to the place where you grew up. Remember the sights and sounds, the characteristic smells and tastes, plant life and animals. Think about how you went from place to place–on foot? in a boat? on the subway? Did your town change a lot as you were growing up? Did you move from that … More Geo-Biography: The Importance of Home
UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! “I’m still betting on Emilie Loring being at the Bellevue Hotel in April 1950.” She was. It turned out that there was a special Enumeration District for the Bellevue Hotel. I found it marked in pen on a map of the downtown Boston Enumeration Districts. (See the original post here) There she … More And Here She Is! Found in the 1950 Census!
The 1950 Census was released on April first, 72 years after it was taken. This was Emilie Loring’s last census, one more chance to learn something about her. Think of all that can happen in ten years, in the world and in a life. In 1940, the United States had not yet entered into World … More Where Did She Go? Trying Out the 1950 Census
The Emilie Loring Collection 