Tea, Tea, Tea! Happy Birthday to Emilie Loring! As I post this, I am in Brattleboro, Vermont, heading to Blue Hill this morning, where I will quickly assemble my own tea, take photos, and prepare to receive yours. Enjoy a tea any way that you like, take photos to share, and send those, along with … More Tea First! Then “Mysteries in Marlborough”
Please come for tea and celebrate Emilie Loring’s 160th birthday! You are cordially invited to our annual Emilie Loring Tea. As always, the time is 4:00 p.m. in your time zone, but feel free to have yours a little earlier or later, as it suits your plans Enjoy your tea! Enjoy your “tea” (or what … More Celebrate Emilie Loring’s 160th Birthday Tea
Here is the long-promised post about literary and cultural references in A Certain Crossroad: The Trail of Conflict (1922) and Here Comes the Sun! (1924) were so filled with literary references that I steeled myself for a long journey through a multitude of quotes in A Certain Crossroad (1925). But that’s not what I found. … More Literary and Cultural References in A Certain Crossroad: Mystery and Adventure
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
After two decades of research with an ever-growing quiver of tools, you wouldn’t think it could be true, but there are still mysteries to solve in Emilie Loring’s life from the clues she left behind. Here is one. This photo is in the Loring family’s collection. Whose room is this? By the furnishings mixed in … More Still a Mystery: Can We Crowd Source a Solution?
Across the gateway of my heart I wrote “No Thoroughfare,” But love came laughing by, and cried: “I enter everywhere.” Hello again, after a bit of a break here on the blog. I’ve been on the west coast, celebrating the marriage of two young friends. Romance is everywhere, and it was fun to experience it … More Summer Reading: Love Came Laughing By
Beckoning Trails was the first story Emilie Loring wrote after the death of her husband, Victor. They celebrated their fifty-fifth anniversary in December and his eighty-eighth birthday in January, before he died in February, 1947. They had always been good companions, and after her brother’s death, Victor had also been Emilie’s first reader, the one with … More The Lure of Mystery in Beckoning Trails
The Emilie Loring Collection 