"A MATURE Biographical Pursuit cm. NovelTeas. 9/21/2017 Novel Teas "You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long " eough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis 2017-18 SEPTEMBER 21 Creating Acadia National Park - the Bio of George Bucknam Dorr AUTHOR & PRESENTER Ronald Epp OCTOBER 19 Kiss Carlo AUTHOR Adriana Trigiana PRESENTER Doris Work NOVEMBER 16 Born a Crime AUTHOR Trevor Noah PRESENTER Michelle Miller DECEMBER 21 Baking Cakes in Kilgali AUTHOR Gaille Parkin PRESENTER Jackie Schroeder JANUARY 18 A Man Called Ove AUTHOR Frederick Backman PRESENTER Doris Stanson FEBRUARY 15 Touching History AUTHOR Lynn Spencer PRESENTER Connie Godleski MARCH 15 Olive Kitteridge AUTHOR Elizabeth Strout PRESENTER Nancy Mills APRIL 19 Lancaster County Library Association Author's Luncheon AUTHOR Elizabeth Strout MAY 17 The Art of Possibility AUTHORS Rosamund and Benjamin Zander PRESENTER Ginnie Stevenson JUNE 21 Underground Railroad AUTHOR Colin Whitehead PRESENTERS Jeanne Boltz & Karen Light design by GEOFF SOWERS Jeanne Boltz 537 Sassafras Drive A Mature Biographical Pursuit : Notes. Cornwall Manor 9.21.17 Lebonon, PA 1. April 8, 2016. Book launch and the end of book tour In sight. November Fruition! 2. 2017 Invites from MHS and JPHS. On Dorr's first decade on Jamaica Pond. 3. Origin of my interest in GBD, completely different from fictions imaginative motive. 4. Beginnings of conservation in Maine are not on the island. Dorr & Ward families in Salem. 5. To Boston, rise of mercantile class. TWW and Barings. Boston Brahmins. Emerson's new inner standard of self-reliance, mirrored in Henry D. Thoreau. Literary flourishing! 6. Hudson River School paintings arouse interest in wilderness, outdoor activity. 7. Dorr's first arrived in 1868, returned a decade later after four years in Europe. Oldfarm. 8. As Yellowstone established (1872), rusticators arrive. Whom and from where? Eliot and NEHarbor. 9. Wealthy family on both sides. Dorr deepens relationships with Harvard philosophy faculty. 10. Summers on MDI spent on island-wide exploration. Pathfinder-pathbuilder Dorr. Dorr is building his knowledge base for later property acquisition to assemble the park. 11. Charles Eliot. Garden & Forest. 1891. Coast of Maine. World's first land trust (1891). Death in 1897. CWE will honor son with biography and establish the HCTPR. Eliot's vision. Dorr's execution. 12. Dorr's career. MD Nurseries. Dorr combined passion for nature with philanthrophic promotion of culture: MD Hospital '97, YMCA, Jesup Memorial Library, MDIBL, Abbe Museum, Jackson Laboratory. 13. 1st decade of 20th-century, travel abroad to Greece, then to Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate, Southwest with Prof. Davis, California Sierras, trip with Bowditch's to Virginia hot springs. Response to Mary's death? Eight years earlier death of father. In 1876 death of Wm. George & Rosalind Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. Explain archival work. CornwallManor-NovelTeas-917