773 research outputs found
Kate Kelly on the Lachlan
No full textKate Kelly, the sister of bushranger Ned, spent the last decade of her life in the inland town of Forbes, on the Lachlan River in New South Wales. This article explores how Kelly is remembered in this town, and the role the print media has played in generating and transmitting these memories. This article differentiates between communicative or lived memory, and cultural memory, as embodied in newspapers, for example, and employs the Foucauldian tool of dispositif analysis to map constellations of cultural memories of Kate. The ways this iconic woman has been represented over time are discussed. How the values embodied in representations of her have shifted as the 'dominant strategic function' of her memory dispositif has changed is demonstrated. In this, the author must declare an interest: Fresh stories to the Kate Kelly memory dispositif have been added through the author's own creative interventions in Forbes, including a recent chamber opera, The Kate Kelly Song Cycle.</p
The author reminisces about her earliest visit to Portland\u27s Merrill Auditorium
No full textThe author reminisces about her earliest visit to Portland\u27s Merrill Auditorium to see the Maine State Ballet\u27s performance of The Nutcracker, and reflects on how her perception of this ornate public performance space has changed over the years
Studying at Merrill Palmer...
No full textThe author of this story is one of two senior students in child development to win scholarships to Merrill-Palmer winter quarter. Miss Hansen and Jane Heynen, the other Iowa State will return next month.</p
The Fly; The Rat; The Slug; The Worm: Disgusting Critters Series by E. Gravel
No full textGravel, Elise. The Fly; The Rat; The Slug; The Worm: Disgusting Critters Series. Tundra Books, 2016.These paperback reissues of Governor General’s award-winning children’s author Elise Gravel’s Disgusting Critters series – one that includes further volumes devoted to the spider, the toad, and head lice[!] – serve to bring to an even wider audience Gravel’s whimsical illustrations and sense of humour. Translated from the original French, the captions offer a soupçon of homely scientific information about each critter’s contribution to global ecology. Gravel is also known for her cartoons and graphic novels, and her critter illustrations are mainly sight-gags. Thus, while these books are ideally suited for reading to children from 3 to 6, older children learning to read can/will understand and appreciate the jokes. Recommended for all public, school, and academic curriculum library collections.Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Merrill Distad Historian and author Merrill Distad enjoyed a four-decade career building libraries and library collections.</jats:p
Merrill (Daphne Winslow) Research Papers, 1950s-1970
No full textDaphne Merrill was born in Rockland, Maine. She received her B.A. from UMaine in 1927 and M.A. in 1937. She was a teacher of English in secondary schools and a professor of English at UMaine, Auburn. She is author of three books and past President of the Maine Federation of Business and Professional Women.
The collection is composed of research notes, scrapbooks and manuscripts for Ms. Merrill\u27s book on Maine lakes, and some other papers concerning the American Mothers Committee, Toy Len Goon, Mother of the Year, 1953 and class materials for teaching English.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/1245/thumbnail.jp
The Articles of Faith--Composer\u27s Commentary
No full textThe author and composer Merrill Bradshaw explains some of the choices he made in setting The Articles of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to music. He shares the impetus behind and the symbolism within this five-movement piece for a cappella voices
I\u27m Not Rockefeller: Implications for Major Foundations Seeking to Engage Ultra- High-Net-Worth Donors
No full text· This article describes how a group of 33 ultrahigh- net-worth philanthropists (UHNWPs) approach their giving.
· A few key areas dominated their giving priorities: education; health; poverty and social welfare; and children/youth initiatives each were a priority for more than a quarter of participants – with education expressed as an interest of 55 percent.
· A third of the 24 who responded to the question spent less than 10 percent of their full working time devoted to philanthropy, and 13 dedicated less than 20 percent of their working time.
· UHNWPs view their peers as their most trusted information resource. After peers, the most commonly cited source of information was the popular press.
· UHNWPs typically are ambivalent or uncertain about the value of evaluation.
· Partnerships between organized philanthropy and UHNWPs has potential benefits for both, if barriers of job responsibilities, training, communication styles and vocabulary can be overcome
Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush by C. Shields and P. Crowe
No full textShields, Carol and Patrick Crowe. Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush, adaptation by Willow Dawson, illustrated by Selena Goulding. Second Story Press, 2016.The long genesis of this graphic novel began more than two decades ago, when Governor General’s and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields began collaborating with Patrick Crowe to produce a screenplay based on Susanna Moodie’s classic account of pioneer life in early Victorian Upper Canada. Shields’ death in 2003 led Crowe to abandon the project, only to revive it a decade later in this illustrated format. Story editor Willow Dawson has extracted the most significant episodes from the screenplay, and Selena Goulding has provided running illustrations that fairly reflect the landscapes, buildings, home interiors, costumes, and technology of the period 1830–1867. Her style—not inappropriately—is reminiscent of the Classics Illustrated school of comic book art. This reviewer’s only criticism is the very occasional failure of the illustrations to accurately depict things referenced in the text.Appearing at a time when Canada celebrates 150 years of nationhood, this handsome production serves to provide older children and young adults with an appreciation of the hardships overcome by Canada’s pioneering women, such as Moodie, and her sister and fellow immigrant Catherine Parr Traill, whose very survival sometimes depended upon aid from their First Nations neighbours. As a succinct précis of Moodie’s classic memoir, it may even stimulate interest in reading the longer, original text. The Introduction provided by CanLit doyenne Margaret Atwood, alongside the content attributable to Carol Shields, render the book suitable not only for public and school libraries, but also for academic libraries and all serious collectors of those authors.Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Merrill DistadHistorian and author Merrill Distad enjoyed a four-decade career building libraries and library collections.</jats:p
Food Atlas: Discover All the Delicious Foods of the World by G. Malerba
No full textMalerba, Giulia. Food Atlas: Discover All the Delicious Foods of the World, illustrated by Febe Sillani, translated by Sharon Morin. Firefly Books, 2017.This large and beautiful folio volume provides an agricultural and culinary tour of the world in the form of nearly fifty maps that cover six continents, Oceania, and fifty individual countries. The book ends with a two-page map of the world to illustrate the “food journeys” by which many familiar, staple foods were transplanted around the globe. Luca Mingolia’s maps, overlain with Febe Sillani’s hundreds of colourful illustrations, depict both the characteristic foods and ethnic dishes of each country and region. The coverage is extraordinarily comprehensive, ranging from Sweden’s repugnant-smelling Surströmming to the equally pungent Durians of southeast Asia, and from Egyptian Ful Medames to India’s Gulab Jamun.Although cast in the format of a book for older children, this fascinating volume is one from which older readers, including adults, may take pleasure and expand their culinary horizons.Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Merrill DistadHistorian and author Merrill Distad enjoyed a four-decade career building libraries and library collections.</jats:p
Ten Ships that Rocked the World by G. Richardson
No full textRichardson, Gillian. Ten Ships that Rocked the World. The World of Tens Series. Illus. Kim Rosen. Annick Press, 2015.Although nominally aimed at an audience of 9- to 12-year-olds, this children’s book unconventionally features a formal introduction, concluding epilogue, selected bibliography, further readings list, and a comprehensive index! Author Richardson follows her award-winning first contribution to the World of Tens series, Ten Plants that Shook the World, with this entry recounting the stories of ships significant in world history. The ships range from those of 15th-century, Ming-Chinese Admiral Zheng He’s treasure fleet to the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior and the super-tanker Sirius Star that was hijacked by Somali pirates and held for ransom in 2008. Along the way, she chronicles Vasco da Gama’s flagship São Gabriel; the Lady Penrhyn which carried 104 women to Australia in 1787 as part of the “First Fleet” of transported convicts; the U.S.S. Susquehanna, that served as Commodore Perry’s flagship on his epic, diplomatic voyage to Japan; the Confederate Navy’s C.S.S. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a warship; the Komagata Maru and its cargo of would-be immigrants from India, turned away from Canada’s shores in 1914; the rechristened steamer Exodus (ex President Warfield), that brought Jewish refugees to the shores of Palestine in 1947; and the motor yacht Granma on which Fidel Castro secretly travelled from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 to incite and lead a revolution.Each vessel is provided with a history, physical description, account of its historical context and significant voyages, and its impact on subsequent world history. Imagined sketches of the experience of some passengers illuminate several of these accounts. All of this provides illustrator Kim Rosen with ample scope to employ photographs to augment her colourful designs and page layouts. The author acknowledges the assistance Capt A.C. Brooking, master mariner, who helped her ensure the accuracy of all things nautical. A book that can amuse, instruct, and be enjoyed by both children, and adults, it is recommended for all school and public libraries. Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Merrill DistadHistorian and author Merrill Distad enjoyed a four-decade career building libraries and library collections.</jats:p
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