Book - Spindrift With Overtones from Madison Connecticut by Grace Miner Lippincott
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1965 (Date published)
Spindrift With Overtones by Grace Miner Lippincott was published in 1965 by Banner Press, 8vo (204x140mm), pp.72. This title is bound in its original brown pebbled cloth with the upper cover title stamped in green. This title is in its original off-white dust jacket.On the front flyleaf is Grace's signature and handwritten note: "For you who love the wood and shore - I give ____ _______; There is much more. In loving Friendship / Grace Miner Lippincott". Inside the book is an advertisement card for the book.Grace's work includes many direct references to local life. This includes "Long Island Sound" (pg 33), "Tuxis Lake" (pg 41), "Tribute to Todd Chittenden" (pg 43), "Message for Signal Hill" (pg 51), "Gem of the Shoreline (Madison, Connecticut" (pg 52), and "Historical House, Madison, Connecticut: Burning of the Mortgage, July 1930" (pg 53).Grace Miner Lippincott was a prolific and renowned poet with six published books, more than 1100 published poems, and ten anthologies. Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Grace graduated from Madison High School in 1895 and was married to Philadelphia native Levi Lippincott a year later. She spent the rest of her days at the home she and her husband built in Madison in 1907; they called the home “Whimsey Acres,” Learn more about Grace at www.madisonhistory.org/grace-miner-lippincott/
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