Other good nonfiction includes 'The Midwife's Tale' by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. She takes excerpts from a late-18th century New England midwife's journal and interprets it to illuminate different analyses of society at that time. 'Everybody Was So Young' by Amanda Vaill. The story of Gerald and Sara Murphy, the bright lights of the Lost Generation and the inspiration for Fitzgerald's characters in 'Tender Is the Night.'
Lindsey Richardson
Collections Manager
The Children's Museum
300 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210
Tel. 617 426 6500 x366
Fax 617 426 1944
www.bostonkids.org
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From: Mary B.
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Subject: Books, Books, Books
Here's a great historical fiction that was inspired by the true story of the Third U.S. Colored Calvary during the Civil War - "Where I'm Bound" by Alan Ballard. Dr. Ballad is a renowned African-American historian at the University at Albany - his work is wonderful!
Mary Borden
Teaching Assistant
University At Albany, NY
>From: David Harvey
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>Subject: Re: Books - Forgot one!
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:28:29 EDT
>
>I forgot to include a real jewel of a book:
>
>"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella Bird (forward written by
>Daniel Boorstein).
>
>A primary source from the letters of Isabella Bird, an English woman who
>traveled from San Francisco, over the Sierras and into the Colorado Rockies in
>1873. She was not only an intelligent and astute observer of daily life, but she
>produced one of the most sensitive and descriptive historical travel
>narratives yet written (it makes wonderful bedtime reading).
>
>From encountering a camp of desperadoes and grizzly bears in the Sierras,
>living in Estes Park and being one of the first to climb Long's Peak (14,255
>ft.), to her conversations with the outlaw poet Desperado Jim, and her traversing
>hundreds of miles through mountains, rivers, and plains on her steadfast pony
>Birdie.
>
>Folks this account is magnetic! About as good as a primary source can get!
>
>Cheers!
>Dave
>
>David Harvey
>Artifacts
>2930 South Birch Street
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