Emilie Loring loved color! “Makes no difference where I see it, in a shop window or a gay gown. Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus—sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.” (Hilltops Clear) That’s … More Emilie Loring’s Hollyhock Cretonne: A Delightful Century-Old Find
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!
What makes you feel nostalgic? Do you reflect on the past year as the new year approaches? I have a good memory, and I am, by nature, both appreciative and positive, so nostalgia has an easy time establishing itself here. Near me, as I type, is one of my grandpa’s fishing weights, a bud vase … More Nostalgia and Anticipation, 2024
A chance meeting often leads to a new idea, and pretty soon, I’m in discovery mode, learning something I hoped to find or finding something I had no idea existed. … More Good Things Happen in Small Places
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
“History is not only an accounting of past events, but also a reflection of the thoughts and feelings which accompanied those events…” … More Friends Along the East Blue Hill Road
A consequence of knowing the history of a place is that, when you see it in the present day, each place, each structure, has two meanings–what it is today and what it was like before. This week in Blue Hill, Maine, I’ve delighted in the present. The weather has been lovely. Even the few rainstorms … More Then and Now in Emilie Loring’s Blue Hill
The Emilie Loring Collection 