Book - Village Echoes by Grace Miner Lippincott
1948 (Date published)
Village Echos by Grace Miner Lippincott was published in 1948 by Banner Press Publishers at Emory University in Georgia, 8vo (203x137mm), pp.95. This title is bound in original green pebbled cloth with the upper cloth holding the title stamped in gold, along with the original silver book jacket.Pasted on the front flyleaf is a sheet with a black and white photograph of Grace Miner Lippincott. On the facing page is her signature: "Inscribed in Friendship / Grace Miner Lippincott / Madison Connecticut 1949".Grace's work includes many direct references to local life. This includes "Villager - 1900" (pg 15), "Village Doctor (To Dr. Milo P. Rindge)" (pg 28), "Evening at Middle Beach" (pg 58), "Long Island Sound" (pg 59), and "Guilford Fair" (pg 65).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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