tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35827663379612785002024-03-04T20:12:39.054-08:00Holling Clancy HollingHolling Clancy Holling “was best known for his geo-historical-fiction volumes for children, believed that children’s literature should be both entertaining and instructive and therefore filled his adventuresome tales with well-researched historical and scientific data.” Who was this writer, artist and naturalist who remains popular sixty years after his books were published? Holling Clancy Holling was a giant of children’s literature who will long be remembered by children of ALL ages.Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-42847963044948067952020-11-25T08:15:00.000-08:002020-11-25T08:15:17.043-08:00Roughing It, Returning Alive, and Writing – part 2<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Along
with camping and boating, the Hollings became adept at recognizing edible wild
foods and cooking under primitive conditions.
Not to be outdone when Holling was away from camp, Lucille became motivated
to study wild foods, including mushrooms, and create her own recipes. At times, the Hollings did live off the land,
killing animals for food—never for sport.
This is why they also lived for a while in 1922 with Native Americans to
learn how they interacted with the environment.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
1922, they lived with the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Recently
we ate with a pueblo family.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We sat on
the black adobe floor worn almost to a glaze by moccasin-soles.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Among us, in the center, a shallow basket of
delightful design cradled a cascade of breads.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Flat round breads of corn meal baked on hot rocks.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tortilla, these were. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then there were the huge puffballish loaves of
a whiteness which had been baked in the Eskimo-igloo affairs out front.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And we had goat’s milk in painted mugs.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And bowls of chili.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And green peppers and thin plates of venison
haunch, squash and beans.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And now I ask
you.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you had gone most of a
sun-scorched day over des</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">ert with no water – would you elevate your nose at
this menu?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yet some speak of “Poor,
Starving Lo.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
similar auto-didactic fashion, Holling learned to paddle a canoe like a Native American,
portage, craft bow and arrows, chip arrowheads, twist fish lines from the inner
bark of basswood saplings, make bone fish hooks, tan leather sew it with sinew,
and make </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">makaks</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> from birch bark in
which to cook and store food.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lucille
learned the art of porcupine quill embroidery and making r4obes from rabbit
skins and turkey feathers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A good deal
of this information can be found in the Hollings’ </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Book of Indians</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
also proved their generosity when they taught these skills to Native Americans
who had forgotten their own heritages.</span></p>Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-32819160399203590602020-11-19T08:36:00.000-08:002020-11-19T08:36:51.716-08:00 Roughing It, Returning Alive, and Writing – part 1
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5s4OlHhqawsjJE5vr3TBCoc1Y4BaS2jNwwDReJvvY8wW0lLwlBgsj2h5Nr2ex5jSoeSv3VzfPTaMrpu1KE3ChVyoZu5VqcUczdbneCWR1kLzaRbrcQ-LMX1C-3VAcma79GgfmoJQQiw2r/s1024/Holling+and+Lucille.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="700" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5s4OlHhqawsjJE5vr3TBCoc1Y4BaS2jNwwDReJvvY8wW0lLwlBgsj2h5Nr2ex5jSoeSv3VzfPTaMrpu1KE3ChVyoZu5VqcUczdbneCWR1kLzaRbrcQ-LMX1C-3VAcma79GgfmoJQQiw2r/w268-h392/Holling+and+Lucille.jpg" width="268" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZu7vtDCElfXn9bE0ZkR0kUd8cs7Pw3Bbx4twr1UYsY2vXgTR_ybo4iOR1YZ82Y7xaPb673c7qpesUXISV2tbZ9mp8fwQ5il6Pm4mb5h5JLK0CBWSjiVpHHob9jgPK03jBEweZygXPUv0/s1024/Holling+and+Lucille.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZu7vtDCElfXn9bE0ZkR0kUd8cs7Pw3Bbx4twr1UYsY2vXgTR_ybo4iOR1YZ82Y7xaPb673c7qpesUXISV2tbZ9mp8fwQ5il6Pm4mb5h5JLK0CBWSjiVpHHob9jgPK03jBEweZygXPUv0/s1024/Holling+and+Lucille.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"> </a> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now,
a trip back to the distant past. Holling’s
art and writing was closely locked into his naturalism. He — and in fairness, his wife, Lucille — were
people of the outdoors beginning with his early jaunts camping in New Mexico
and exploring places like the Mississippi River. </span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We’re
lucky to have the Master’s thesis written by Hazel Gibb Hinman in 1958 at the
University of Redlands, California, to chronicle some of the Hollings’
activities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Through her interviews we
learn that in August 1927, Holling and Lucille took a three-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">week </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">canoe trip
into the Canadian wilderness north of Missinabie, Ontario.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">They were joined by Tom Brown, a reporter for
the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">New York Sun</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, whom they had met
on their world cruise.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">[It may be
difficult to find a copy of Hinman’s thesis; I’m working from photocopied
pages.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Camping
and canoeing over the next decade contributed to the Hollings’ graphic work for
Cunard lines, the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Saturday Evening Post</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
advertising, newspaper features and illustration for </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bookhouse</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Book Trails</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Holling
became an “expert,” Gibb said, joining a boat club, racing canoes and shells,
and learning survival techniques if the worst happened.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Holling insisted Lucille become a good
swimmer, and they kept a canoe at Chicago’s Lincoln Park on Lake Michigan.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Perversely, Holling liked to go out on the
lake during a “blow” when bad weather hit.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gibb surmises that Holling felt he needed to battle the elements in
order to portray them vividly and accurately in his writing and art.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lucille said she could look at the whitecaps
on the lake from their window in the Palmolive Building, and one wonders how
she felt at those times.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Holling
recalled one such instance when he paddled about two miles out on the lake in rotten
weather.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Returning, he noticed a crowd
on shore.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Getting closer he saw an angry
police officer. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gibb says of Holling, “Still
panting from exertion, the [Irish] policeman gestured wildly and commanded him
to come in immediately.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘Don’t you know
that you might have been drowned!’”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Holling
said he didn’t know quite what to do, so to gain time to think, he yelled back,
“Let me rest a minute.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’m fagged!”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly
thereafter, the policeman had cooled off and Holling could explain the situation. He told Gibb he still thought long afterwards
that the cop might have arrested him if he had gone ashore immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">What
might have proven embarrassing in the 1920s would today would become the source
of publicity, promotion, and Twitter bragging rights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hazel Gibb Hinman’s [1910-2004] thesis
dissertation became a book, published by the University of Redlands in 1958 and
titled </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Lives and Works of Holling Clancy Holling<i>.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-39822510004585399572020-10-15T07:57:00.001-07:002020-10-15T07:58:31.665-07:00Paddle Is Still Floating! (Or His Namesakes Are)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh859NW8j8uhge0xh7e2DHHHicch_ZW_7UeBellAZVuaOELP7u9KBTaG0-cWSMyzMlghqLJKCjYg0CbXoG5wOEtW1V7IzPGGM2terpipANBh3DVZWpAqowQjcfFmKQ5xy_EuEFb8Z-LcffL/s800/Paddle+to+the+Sea+route.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh859NW8j8uhge0xh7e2DHHHicch_ZW_7UeBellAZVuaOELP7u9KBTaG0-cWSMyzMlghqLJKCjYg0CbXoG5wOEtW1V7IzPGGM2terpipANBh3DVZWpAqowQjcfFmKQ5xy_EuEFb8Z-LcffL/w418-h214/Paddle+to+the+Sea+route.jpg" width="418" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Unfortunately, the newspaper's photos are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced here. This is Paddle's route as Holling envisioned it.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">I received a wonderful e-mail from Dr.
Lowell Wyse this week that Paddle is still floating!</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">
</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">He attached a story from Michigan’s </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">MLive</i><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Its headline reads “</span><span lang="EN" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Wooden boat inscribed with message washes up on
Lake Superior beach 27 years after launch.” </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Reporter Brandon Champion writes
about the hand-carved canoe launched from Duluth and found <span style="color: #2a2a2a; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">at Apostle Islands National
Lakeshore near </span>Ashland, WI, Oct. 7, 2020.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">“Twenty-seven
years, two states and one Great Lake,” Champion states.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">That was the journey taken by one little red,
white, and blue boat launched from Duluth, Minnesota’s Brighton Beach in 1993
and discovered nearly three decades later near Ashland, Wisconsin on Oct. 7.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lynn
BeBeau and her husband discovered the boat while hiking on Lake Superior.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boat was inscribed, “I am traveling to the
ocean. Please put me back in the water. Will you send information on your
whereabouts to Lakewood School, Room 116 & 118 5207 N. Tischer Duluth, MN.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ms.
BeBeau did as instructed and put the boat back in the water. Then she contacted
the Lakewood Elementary School in Duluth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the school, she found a class had been reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paddle-to-0the-Sea</i> in the 1990s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two women, Bonnie Fritch and Brenda Schell, then launched two replica boats
in 1993 during a field trip. A friend of Schell’s had made the boats and their
classes painted them and added the message to the bottom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am not sure what happened to Brenda’s boat,
but mine was spotted a year later up near the North Shore,” Fritch wrote to the
newspaper. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The people put a second coat
of varnish on the boat and relaunched it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought we wouldn’t hear any more about it.
Amazing it is still out there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">Now back to Dr. Wyse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is writing an “<span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">ecocritical analysis of <i>Paddle”</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> titled <i>Ecospatiality: A Place-Based
Approach to American Literature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>The
book<i> </i>will be published<i> </i></span> by the University of Iowa
Press in the summer of 2022.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He wrote us, “I
thought you might enjoy this news story about a 27-year-old </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paddle</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> boat. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I see that you featured a similar story on the
Holling blog recently.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Unfortunately, I
never received permission from Houghton Mifflin to reprint Holling's map image
in my forthcoming book. But I'm happy that my ecocritical analysis of </span><i style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paddle</i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> will
reach a (slightly) wider audience. </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
book's title is </span><i style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American
Literature.</i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> It will be published by University of Iowa Press in
summer 2021.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Thank you, Lyle, and thanks to the many
people who are keeping Paddle’s memory bright and shining! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-24608074995082806672020-09-25T12:22:00.000-07:002020-09-25T12:22:45.526-07:00A Modern Romance of the North<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19rBsmf6z0gkCQZTTrEL1-ct4cOVlnx7U6efC2r0lrx9whPJ6GKQ4nQGGM2Pf6XPl3zBIB9JsajZFsH9OCV1gUGiar19dfdOtwdMehclCUbIrtCtxqF6VPQvVWq5bEPSO1zRUuRXSH3ot/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19rBsmf6z0gkCQZTTrEL1-ct4cOVlnx7U6efC2r0lrx9whPJ6GKQ4nQGGM2Pf6XPl3zBIB9JsajZFsH9OCV1gUGiar19dfdOtwdMehclCUbIrtCtxqF6VPQvVWq5bEPSO1zRUuRXSH3ot/" width="208" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Young Treydon Turner-Brian</span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">Nipigon, Ontario, celebrated its
centennial in July 2009, and about that time 3-year-old Treydon Turner-Brian
carved (with his grandfather Joe Turner’s help) his own Paddle-to-the-Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treydon’s family would be moving to Alberta
shortly, and the boy wanted to be part of Nipigon’s history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has become a part, and Paddle’s travels
have become a latter-day romantic adventure.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">On a stormy day in Pukaskwa
National Park in November 2010, a kayaker saw Traydon’s Paddle-to-the-Sea
bobbing by the mouth of the Willow River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Earlier this month, a kayaker in Pukaskwa National Park (<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">located near Marathon, Ontario</span>.
Canada)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>found himself stranded at
the mouth of the Willow River in a storm. He saw Treydon’s Paddler bobbing by
the shore and picked it up for a look. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow,
Paddle had managed to travel more than 180 km (112 miles) from Nipigon Bay to
Pukaskwa. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">After reading the message on the
boat, and showing Treydon’s Paddle to Parks Canada staff working at the
Pukaskwa Tourism Information Centre, the kayaker decided to carry Paddle on to
Wawa. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the outfitter where the kayaker
rented his gear, a fellow adventurer, named Ed Hayworth, from New Zealand,
noticed Paddle and took a liking to the little canoe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ed decided to carry the Paddler with him back
to New Zealand, where he is now planning to release Paddle into the Pacific
Ocean.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">When Treydon helped to carve his
Paddle-to-the-Sea canoe as part of Nipigon’s Centennial Celebrations, he must
have hoped that it might someday reach the Atlantic Ocean. <span style="font-family: times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Paddle-to-the-Sea Park was opened in downtown Nipigon to keep the famous story alive. </span></span>After an amazing journey, Treydon’s Paddler
has gone much further than the original Paddle-to-the-Sea. The little canoe was
to be released into the salt waters of the South Pacific Ocean off of the coast
of New Zealand.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-84990043118075627322020-03-13T09:27:00.000-07:002020-03-13T09:27:46.255-07:00What’s a Book Worth? Wow!<br />
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<pre><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A dozen years ago I posted a note here that Holling’s <i>Sun and Smoke, A Book of New Mexico</i> sold on </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the secondary market for $235. Fifty copies of the handmade book were printed and published in </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1923. Today, four copies are in university libraries and a fifth was sold to a rare book dealer a dozen </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">years ago. And a sixth has been found.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><i><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sun & Smoke</span></i><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a printing arts project while Holling was at the Art Institute of Chicago. He drew on </span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A news item I posted on Facebook in 2012 caught my eye and I decided to check the value of this </span></pre>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">My </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">questions went to Joan Hoffman at the Holling museum.</span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">She</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Recently a copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sun and Smoke</i> was found in a Livingston, Montana, thrift shop by an
alert employee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heather Heath ‘doesn’t
know how the book came to the Community Closet, or when.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had Holling not included on the last page that
only 50 copies of this book had been printed, Heather might not have given the
book much thought. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, had Holling used
his real name at the time, Holling Allison Clancy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(It was not legally changed until two years
later.) it probably would have been harder to track this author’s past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Fortunately, Heather was curious and persistent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She found a website (perhaps the Holling blog)
with information that Holling had graduated from Leslie High School in
Michigan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A call was made to the Leslie Chamber
of Commerce president <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>and she was referred to Steve
Hainstock, past president of the Leslie Historical Society and founder of the
Leslie Historical Museum. The connection was made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Heather felt the book should go to the Leslie
Historical Museum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Community
Closet’s Board of Directors also thought the Leslie Historical Museum would be
a good home for Holling’s book and they generously decided to give it to the museum
as a gift. What a precious gift it is! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not expect to ever have a copy of Holling’s
first and rarest book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“How
rare is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sun and Smoke</i>? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know of only six other existing copies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to WorldCat, a national database,
there are four copies in libraries scattered around the U.S. – Univ. of
Arizona; Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Northwestern Univ., IL and Miami
Univ. OH. One was sold from a private collection in 2007 and another is, as far
as I know, still in a private collection in Oregon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Okay, no one talked me into it, but here's the rest of Holling's interview with this publisher's representative.... </i><i><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ms. Montgomery’s pre-publication queries subsequently delved deeply into Holling’s biography and character, almost to the point of embarrassment.</span></i><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dear
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returned from the east, hence the delay in answering you[r] last letter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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story on "PADDLE" reads very well, and your title "RETURNED WITH
INTEREST" is excellent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has been fun working with you. Be sure to have your publishers ship me a copy of
the book when it comes out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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luck, and happy sale-ing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enclosing a few shots on signatures to used at will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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preferences might be No. 1 or 4. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paddle-to-the-Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Published
by: Houghton Mifflin Co. Year: 1941<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Real
Name: Born Holling Alison Clancy. Father
died in 1918. Because the Clancy line was extended by innumerable cousins,
while the Holling line ended with my mother, I added<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">another
"Holling" to my name for books. To save confusion, the name was legalized
and I am now known as Holling Clancy Holling, but old friends still recognize
me as being the original Holling Clancy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
do your family and friends call you?: Holling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A.
YOUR BACKGROUND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Date
of birth: Aug 2-1900 Place of birth:
Grandfather Holling's Farm, Henrietta Township, Jackson Co.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Father's
occupation: School Supt. Number of Brothers: 1 and sisters: 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Father's
nationality: Canadian Irish-French in Canada for 2 centuries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mother's
nationality: American--English stock, mother's grandfather direct<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from
England<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kind
of home during childhood (farm, small town, city apt. etc):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Childhood,
North Mich. S. Peninsula. Small towns with fairly large high schools<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adolescence
on the Holling Farm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Westbranch, and AuSable, Mich. 2 yrs. after leaving AuSable <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was destroyed by forest fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amount
of schooling (high school, college, etc.): Graduate Leslie High Sch., Leslie
Mich.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grad.
Art Institute, Chicago. Special tutoring Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Economic
status during childhood (poor, middle class, wealthy): Middle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Special
interests as a child (sports, books, games, etc.): Father was good horseman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Learned
to ride young - I had a pony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Father
inducted me into mysteries of natural sciences - hence love of woods, books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mother
was pianist, wrote verse, plays etc. locally. Hence love of art, music etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Childhood
ambitions: To own and control a circus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
write and illustrate books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
did you begin to write?: First- drawing, pig with litter at 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First
verse (local paper) at 5 - ever anon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why?:
Natural expression. Each new experience I documented in drawn pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who
encouraged you?: Mother, Father, assorted relatives. Father's brothers and
sisters were missionaries in India, Africa. Visits home gave me much food for
imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
and when was your first success or recognition: Difficult to determine as I
grew into it. Mother wrote and produced plays and musicals for Father's schools
and I was in them. First actual publications were in boy's magazines as youngster.
Verse in adult mag. etc. First books - See Oct. Supplement: Who's Who in Am.; 1942<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
did you happen to write for children?: Grew
into this phase also. An intense interest in hows and whys of life gave me an
interpreter complex: suppose you could say that I wanted to know how a thing was
done so that I could pass it on to others. Regard myself as an interpreter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anything
else about your background which has a bearing on your writing.:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From
small-town-farm environment graduated to big city env. (Chicago) but I was
still the "Wilderness-lover." A year in the deserts of New Mexico helped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also,
working on scientific staff (Taxidermist Asst) of Field Museum of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nat.
Hist., Chicago gave me great impetus. Field trips, Montana and British Columbia
for specimens. One real turning point was meeting of Dr. Ralph Linton, Head of American
Ethnology Dept. at the museum. We struck up a bargain and after a day's work in
Zoology, Dr. Linton (in his office) gave me from one to 3 hours lecture in
Anthropology. He tried out his courses on me. (He was later at Columbia Un,,
now at Yale). A couple of years of this gave me a foundation in the study of
Man - past, present and possible future Which acted as a key or an entire filing system in my
brain for the correlation of scattered information. Hence, any information now
gleaned has its pigeon-hole in my mind and becomes part of a subconscious fund available for future books.
(I plan to Produce Bushels!)
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P.S.
Look at designs on title contents page, map etc. of "Paddle" and you
will see patterns in birch bark as related below - (though of course not in old Chippewa design).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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THE WRITING OF THE BOOK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where
did you get the idea for the book?: Touring the Gulf States, Lowell Thompson of
H.M.Co. [Houghton Mifflin] wrote me about illustrating a book for them. At
Boston I gave Lowell various ideas for books. He liked the idea of a story
about a river. So Mrs. Holling and I started west again in our studio-trailer
for the headwaters of the Missouri. En route, Wisconsin and Minn., idea shifted
to a river in the Great Lakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Season as well as year): Autumn 1938<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
a fishing boat in Lake Superior I said "that's it - a chip floats along the
river in the Lakes, clear to the sea." Later that month, Lucille (Mrs. H.)
and I met a Chippewa woman selling birch bark baskets near Fort William Ont.
She used hideous designs from magazines- flower pots, sunbonnet babies, roses
etc. We said "why not use the original Chippewa designs but tho her
mother had remembered then, she had
forgotten. So Lucille and I at Fort William Camp, from memory, cut out many
birch patterns of Chippewa and Cree designs. These I did on the orange-colored tree-side
of the bark, traced with a point and all inside the outline scraped neatly. This
gives a darker silhouette on the dark bark. The woman was astonished at the
authentic designs and because we even cut them in bark patterns, like the
old-time Chippeway. To show her gratitude and pleasure she gave us, among other
things, a carving made by a 12-year old
Chippewa friend. We still have it - a kneeling Indian with drawn bow. If a 12
yr. old could do this, I reasoned, then an Indian in a canoe would be easy. So
there was my `chip' to float thru the `river' in the Lakes' to the sea. My high
school summer vacations had been spent
(2 years) working on Great Lakes freighters. Lucille and I had camped all
around the Lakes on long canoe trips, including Nipiquo country. So the story virtually
developed on its own, as naturally as a chip going downstream. The title came
while we camped in Bryce Canyon, Utah. I thought of having the boy carve
"I am Paddle-to- the-Sea" ____ verbal thing - as an Indian would say
"I am Paddling to the sea! But the words seemed simple and direct, and the
title was born as is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did you begin to write the book?: 1939<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sequoia Park, Calf. extending to Olympic Pen. (Neah Bay region) finished
Altadena Calf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
desert books are often written in canoes, canoeing books in deserts. Perspective,
you see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much had you had published when you began it? (Give names of books) See
"Who's Who, Oct sup., 1942" page 208 - also "Story and Verse for
Children" - page 813 by Miriam Blanton Huber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was your purpose in writing this book?: To give youngsters a taste of the North
Country I knew - to have fun making a
book - and for cash!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(study, office, etc.):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you keep regular office hours?: Yes. If so, what are they?: No <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you revise much?: Yes Write easily or
laboriously?: It all depends <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you let your family or friends read your work, or try it out on children?: Read
it to my wife. Never to children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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private secretary, public typist, etc.): or sometimes to save time typist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you make an outline before writing the book?: No<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you decide on the title first or last?: First<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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long did it take you to write the book?: Problematical. Some paragraphs rewritten
60 times for simplicity and rhythm [sic].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you work on it steadily?: At times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it go fairly smoothly or did you hit rough spots? (Details of any particular
difficulty and its solution would be appreciated.): No rough spots in story proper. Sometimes difficult to choose
which writing told story best. In PADDLE, TREE and new book SEABIRD, each page
of some 300 words is a complete chapter. This
necessitates work in framing all ideas for that page simply and yet
without losing the plot, excitement, etc. (As against such writing, sonnets are
a cinch!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your book accepted immediately by a publisher?: Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it immediately popular on publication?: Thank Heaven!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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else about your writing that might be of interest, especially anything that
concerns this book.: The rests between spurts were swell!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ILLUSTRATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much did you have to do with the illustrations of your book?: Practically
everything except making the plates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you did them yourself, which came first, the pictures or the text?: Text<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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medium did you work in?: Water-color, pencil, pen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much experience had you had in illustrating?: years. </span></div>
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did you look like when you wrote this book? Dark or Fair?: Dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or short?: 5' 10-1/2" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or plump?: Slender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of eyes?: Dark blue Wore glasses?: No<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of hair?: Dark Brown Kind of hair--long
or short?: Medium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or straight?: Straight How did you wear
it?: See picture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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special features of your appearance (square jaw, dimples, stoop,etc.): Would
dearly love a square jaw but haven't one. No dimples. No s</span></div>
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you quiet or talkative?: It all depends.
Friendly or reserved?: Ditto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you laugh a great deal or are you usually grave?: Not manic-depressive. However,
can howl with glee or be sober as hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you quick-tempered or calm and placid?: Every alternate leap-year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sort of clothes do you wear most when
writing? (sports, suits slacks, etc.): Sometimes trunks only. Sometimes
overcoats. Altitude and weather dictate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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occupations and hobbies?: Too many<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
is your normal speech like? (Meticulously correct, colloquial, slangy, abrupt,
rambling, etc.): Yes. And the shadings can be subtle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are some of your pet expressions and exclamations?: I blush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not habitual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strongly religious, give denomination.: Brought up a Methodist - but am very
broad in view. Could still be called Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other details about yourself, no matter how trivial, which might help me to picture you in my own mind.
Latin Americans call me "simpatico." I become with no effort the age
to which I am talking. Even some dogs seem to wonder why I have no tail. Cats
regard me with favor. Also old people. Also my wife (this statement - should be
qualified at length.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you direct me to any articles or books which have been written about you?: See
Who's Who Supplement for Oct. 1942. It contains
most complete list of my books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you have a photograph or snapshot of
yourself of about the vintage of your book, I would appreciate it. Of course I
would return it promptly. Please keep the thing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-18206018226679054092020-02-01T07:58:00.000-08:002020-02-01T09:26:43.420-08:00Writer, Illustrator, Adventurer… Humorist? Who Was This Guy Anyway<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<i><span style="color: #313131;">I thought I knew a bit about Holling Clancy Holling, but
recently I tripped over commentary he wrote.
His letters to biographer</span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #262b2f; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Elizabeth Rider Montgomery,
</span><span style="color: #313131;">working perhaps on behalf of Houghton
Mifflin, in 1948, amazed me. Take a
look:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Miss Montgomery:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your last letter of January 2 has just arrived
via Boston, and has jolted me into startled realization of my negligence. Upon receipt of your first letter the filling
out of your questionnaire was started (quite expansively as you will note - if
you cannot decipher cuneiform please write and we will send "Holling's
Handy Helper in Handling His Hen Scratches," complete with guide maps and
instructions).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then my publisher hinted that, if my new book
hopes to be born in '48 its author ought to hump himself with the
illustrations. Everything else was dropped (it was already dropped before this,
but the hint only dropped everything deeper), including another questionnaire
for an anthology to be published in England, business letters in stacks, and
the pleading missives of friends and relatives. Christmas and New Years saw me
nailed to the drawing board. People have sometimes expatiated on the
"effortless ease of creation" suggested by PADDLE-TO-THE-SEA and TREE
IN THE TRAIL. At the time of creation of the idea, yes. But from then on -
rolled sleeves, shovel and pick!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This new book, SEABIRD, has the same format as
PADDLE. But the story takes in much more
territory in space and time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The story thread hangs on a seagull carved in
walrus ivory which sails with four seafaring generations, starting in an 1830
whaling ship off Greenland and ending in a plane. My illustrative struggle was
a struggle only in the necessity for deletion. (I really love my work). For
each page of pictures, data and sketches had been amassed, enough for a book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The finished material had to be axed
unmercifully to emerge basic, concise, yet comprehensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus your
questionnaire was laid aside for a day and was literally buried under
hundreds of sketches. The completed illustrations have now been mailed. And
now, coming out of a daze, your letter of January 2 is the first of many groups
to be answered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your outline of the subjects to be included in
your book is appealing. It is flattering to find my simple PADDLE in such good
company. Please put me on your sales list for an autographed, first edition
copy! Sincerely, Holling Clancy Holling
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<i><span style="color: #313131;">Holling continues three months later:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<pre><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Mrs. Montgomery,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You've done a swell job with the PADDLE story. It could go as is. However, because it is so darn good, I've nudged it here and there to sharpen facts in some places and broaden meanings in others; so that from here on out i can refer questioners to your anthology for the real dope on how PADDLE got under way.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your title, I am afraid, may get me in wrong with some of my Indian friends. I can hear them now - "Huh! So this guy knows more about us than we do? Ho! Wait till we [word missing?] this him again! Boy, will we pour it on!"... In other words, because I can change a car's tire doesn't<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">mean i know the secrets of its motor. And really knowing Indians is akin to understanding atomic fission....<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #262b2f; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps you could snare a title which would, instead of being boastful, point a moral for the young reader. nothing so trite as "helping others we help ourselves" but with that general idea. Lucille and i helped the old woman with no thought of reward (our reward was in proving to ourselves that we were smart enough to remember certain designs), yet she gave us an extension on our original ideas which formed the book's character.... Or you might pick up a title from something like HOW BITS OF BIRCHBARK HELPED TO BUILD A BOOK....(When I started on this title thing I really meant to help. Hope I haven't driven you into a bog).<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-86984193747056300702019-05-30T08:36:00.001-07:002019-05-30T08:36:33.720-07:00Holling's “Keep It Simple” Formula<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One of the
secrets to Holling’s enduring interest by young people is his simplified
vocabulary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Seuss — Theodor Geisel —
also realized this with his severely truncated lexicon in stories like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cat in the Hat</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Holling’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paddle-to-the-Sea</i> has a Fog Index of
6.9, meaning 91% of everyday words we use are harder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Flesch Reading Index score is 75.2,
meaning 90% of other vocabulary is harder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Similarly, only 5% of Holling’s words are “complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His word choices have just 1.4 syllables per
word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, there are just 12.3 words per
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This doesn’t
mean Holling wrote down to youngsters or was patronizing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does mean a fifth grader can easily pick
up a Holling book and understand the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Home schooling sources regularly cite Holling’s books for their
educational value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, to a
nine-year-old, Holling is a captivating, comprehensible guide to new worlds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from which these statistics are cited.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 75.0pt;" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">90% are harder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="225">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Flesch-Kincaid
Index: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 37.5pt;" valign="top" width="75">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5.8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 76.5pt;" width="153">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12% are easier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 1.25in;" width="180">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 180px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 16.5pt;" valign="bottom" width="33">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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</td>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 75.0pt;" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">88% are harder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td colspan="3" style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td colspan="3" style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Complexity</span></b><span class="tiny1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search-inside/text-complexity-help.html" target="AmazonHelp">learn more</a>)</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="225">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Complex Words: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 37.5pt;" valign="top" width="75">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5%<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 76.5pt;" width="153">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5% have fewer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 1.25in;" width="180">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 180px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 11.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="23">
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</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 75.0pt;" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">95% have more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="225">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Syllables per Word: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 37.5pt;" valign="top" width="75">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1.4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 76.5pt;" width="153">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11% have fewer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 1.25in;" width="180">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 180px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 15.75pt;" valign="bottom" width="32">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 75.0pt;" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">89% have more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 112.5pt;" valign="top" width="225">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Words per Sentence: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt; width: 37.5pt;" valign="top" width="75">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12.3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 76.5pt;" width="153">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">24% have fewer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 1.25in;" width="180">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 180px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 25.5pt;" valign="bottom" width="51">
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</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 75.0pt;" width="150">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">76% have more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cited by E.J. Hirsch, Jr. for <strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Your-Fifth-Grader-Needs/dp/0385314647/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product"><span style="color: black;">What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a
Good Fifth-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series</span></a></span></i></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<br />Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-6995301068975669152019-05-15T12:42:00.000-07:002019-05-15T12:42:39.640-07:00Minn Is Still Remembered 68 Years Later
<span style="color: #313131;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #313131;"><o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSmJTdHvOgOiQG9Nq0TCWR2Tnx-73A_NJnJRqxo4tMxTnuxdyxLbqVsHDMgNJBUgL3T3wyyyg_fgxaoa-3E8SxJ42NM7qwYKaVhJU8TedfkO8vyCbTi-Mgth6P43utRQ5u5ko6OyHoS2P5/s1600/minn-holling-clancy-holling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1238" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSmJTdHvOgOiQG9Nq0TCWR2Tnx-73A_NJnJRqxo4tMxTnuxdyxLbqVsHDMgNJBUgL3T3wyyyg_fgxaoa-3E8SxJ42NM7qwYKaVhJU8TedfkO8vyCbTi-Mgth6P43utRQ5u5ko6OyHoS2P5/s200/minn-holling-clancy-holling.jpg" width="154" /></a><br />
<br />
</o:p></span>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #313131;">I had a
lovely note this week from Barb Langridge, M.Ed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s the Children’s Instructor and Research
Specialist at the Howard County Central Library in (I believe) Columbia, Maryland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wrote to me asking to reprint a review
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Minn of the Mississippi</i> that I
posted some time ago on Goodreads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Equally
(or more) important, she moderates a Web site called <em>A Book and a Hug</em> (<a href="https://abookandahug.com/"><span style="color: blue;">https://abookandahug.com</span></a>) devoted to encouraging
children’s reading.<span style="color: #313131;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #313131;">Of
course she had my permission, and you can read my review at ht<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178760.Minn_of_the_Mississippi"><span style="color: blue;">tps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178760.Minn_of_the_Mississippi</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in 2012, one of our followers here, Brad
Fisher, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also posted his memories of Minn. And,
you can read Ms. Langridge’s posting too at </span><a href="https://abookandahug.com/minn-of-the-mississippi/"><span style="color: blue;">https://abookandahug.com/minn-of-the-mississippi/</span></a>.</div>
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If I can make a recommendation,
Holling’s book, written in 1951, is still available at online booksellers and
would be a wonderful gift to any child around the ages of 9 to 12. Or to anyone who
is young at heart and curious about the world.<br />
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-88960159226968245482019-01-05T07:32:00.004-08:002019-01-05T07:32:54.432-08:00The World Comes to Your Livingroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
curious that I continue to see references to and receive e-mails from people
who use Holling’s works in home-schooling their children. Theirs is more than
just a bucolic trip through a naturalistic world; they focus on the wealth of
information Holling’s books that include: science, history, geography, writing,
and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And their children are richer
for the exposure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kim,
a Chicago native and creator of the blogsite, 730 Sage Street (<a href="https://www.730sagestreet.com/holling-c-holling-books-teach-geography-literature-nature-studies)/"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.730sagestreet.com/holling-c-holling-books-teach-geography-literature-nature-studies)/</span></a>,
says, “</span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Holling C. Holling books are like a banana split of books:
literature, geography, history, nature study, travelogue, and all topped with
great illustrations. For homeschoolers, his books can be a spine for many
subjects, or the basis for a unit study. Even if you do nothing else, you
should read [Holling’s books], because your family will enjoy them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131;">Kim begins, “We started
with <em>Pagoo</em></span>,<span style="color: #313131;"> the story of a hermit crab, because we had a bit of a
hermit crab obsession going on. I really didn’t have an idea of how good the
book would be. <em>Pagoo</em> follows the life of a hermit crab from birth
through adulthood in a tide pool. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Readers
will learn so much about marine life in this book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131;">“Similarly, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Minn of the Mississippi</i> follows the life of a snapping turtle
as she travels down the entire length of the Mississippi River. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book delves into the geology and history
of the river as well as the animals that inhabit it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also explains how humans interact with and
have changed the river.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #313131;">She continues that the
next three books feature <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inanimate
objects as the main characters, “which is an interesting change in children’s
literature:” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paddle-to-the-Sea, Seabird</i>,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.Tree in the Trail.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131;">.One of
her resources is from the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW), <em><a href="https://iew.com/shop/products/geography-based-writing-lessons" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Geography Based Writing Lessons</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">She hails it as a </span></em>source for writing
assignments. “We were very happy with it; it solidified the skills learned
with IEW Level A, without being boring,” she reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131;">Holling’s
books can be a “launchpad for science and nature studies.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can also revive a world that’s becoming
more distant as we thrash our way into the modern age.</span><span style="color: #313131; font-size: 5.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think many visitors to book sellers walk the aises and run their fingers over
the covers before majking a selection. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Internet search engines, this was the
accepted means of reachi9ng prospective customers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
worked at the parent company of Funk & Wagnalls, I learned that about 10 percent
of the public visited book sellers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
100 percent shopped at supermarkets for food, which is why F&W sold its
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the cover of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cowboys</i> at least three
times!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It's not known whether the cover art was created by Holling or the advertising department.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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collection. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had a book jacket that
was different from what we had. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hard
cover beneath the jacket is the same. It looks like we have three
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-48414913752724139322016-02-22T08:40:00.001-08:002016-02-22T08:40:37.673-08:00Happy Anniversary, Paddle-to-the-Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Think back to the five major Holling books published by
Houghton Mifflin — </span><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paddle-to-the-Sea,
Tree in the Trail</span></span></em><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, <em>Seabird</em>, <em>Minn of the Mississippi</em>, and <em>Pagoo.</em><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chances are</span> Paddle</em><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, a winner of the Caldecott
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</span>Published in 1941, the big book about a little canoe is now 75 years
old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this, we can only say happy
anniversary! </span></em></span><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part of the book’s success lies in it being a classic
“journey” or “road trip” genre of story as well as being a fountain of
information on geography, culture, and humanity along the waters of the Great
Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was also an uplifting story, published during bleak days as the world went to
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Equally interesting is the back
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In the late 1930s, Holling and his wife Lucille
were road tripping the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in
Galveston, they received a letter from Lovell Thompson, editor of children’s
books at Houghton Mifflin, a publisher founded in Boston in 1832.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having seen Holling’s Quaker Oats pioneer
series, Thompson asked what kind of books Holling might do for Houghton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple eventually had a quick luncheon
meeting with Thompson in Boston, and Holling suggested a story about the
Missouri River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, the Hollings returned
to the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some weeks later, they were
in Ontario and met a Chippewa woman selling birch bark baskets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing a carving of an Indian figure kneeling
in a canoe, he learned it had been made by an 11-year-old boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holling and Lucille were given the carving,
or </span></em><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt;">makak</span></em><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, for having taught the woman original designs of her people, those she
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The story of a carved Indian boy in a canoe began
to come together while the couple ambled back to California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Months were spent researching<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the route through the lakes (some of which
Holling knew from working on the water), drawing with watercolor and pen,
laying out the pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work then was
sent to Boston, </span></em><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt;">Paddle-to-the-Sea</span></em><em><span style="color: #29303b; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> was published in 1941, and Holling’s name was established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></em></span></div>
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illustration is reproduced from Harmen Hielkema’s blog site at <a href="http://harmenhielkema.blogspot.com/2013/09/paddle-to-sea_29.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://harmenhielkema.blogspot.com/2013/09/paddle-to-sea_29.html</span></a>.</span></div>
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-8521384045276275142016-01-05T07:42:00.001-08:002016-01-05T07:42:42.674-08:00I Was Wrong: Holling Art Does “Just Turn Up”<br />
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magazine cover Holling painted for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Successful
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sorry this post is a bit late for Thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holling’s delightful wildlife scene can be viewed at </span><span style="color: #29303b; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/animals/chickens-poultry/classic-thanksgiving-covers"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/animals/chickens-poultry/classic-thanksgiving-covers</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cover is number 11 in the slide show.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-58470007467557776122016-01-04T07:41:00.000-08:002016-01-04T07:41:37.975-08:00What Would Holling Say, Write and Paint Now?
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holling Clancy Holling
wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paddle-to-the-Sea</i> at least two
decades too soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he was an
outstanding artist, storyteller, and educator, he wrote this book in 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The insect-killing properties of DDT had been
discovered only two years earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
world was embroiled in a war that concentrated all efforts on industrialization
— not nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We as Americans seemed to
simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accept</i> nature as being unchanging
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Rachel Carson wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silent Spring</i>
with its clear warning of a looming ecological disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be another year before </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Stewart Udall wrote <em>The Quiet Crisis</em>, warning,
as Richard Telford reports, that “we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of
increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an overall environment
that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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just ran across Richard Telford's well-written commentary on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paddle-to-the-Sea</i> and the environmental
questions we now have: “The Things We Carry: Revisiting Holling Clancy
Holling’s Paddle-to-the-Sea” (online at <a href="http://theecotoneexchange.com/2014/10/20/the-things-we-carry-revisiting-holling-clancy-hollings-paddle-to-the-sea/"><span style="color: blue;">http://theecotoneexchange.com/2014/10/20/the-things-we-carry-revisiting-holling-clancy-hollings-paddle-to-the-sea/</span></a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His comments bear reading and considering why
this book from 1941 still resonates among readers of all ages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wonder what the carved canoe’s adventures
might have involved if there had been pollution for it to contend with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would Minn have recognized its Mississippi
home where aquatic life is dying?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writes graphically in the Ecotone Exchange blog about Holling’s description of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">the Nipigon country, “All this time the world was
changing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The air grew warmer, the birch
twigs swelled with new buds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A moose
pawed the snow beside a log, uncovering green moss and arbutus like tiny stars.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, one morning, the gray clouds
drifted from the sky. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun burst out
warm and bright above the hills, and under its glare the snow blankets drooped
on the fir trees.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">One reason parents of home-schooled children often turn
to Holling’s works is for their depiction of nature, which is disappearing from
the children’s lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, nature
seems to be disappearing to a greater or lesser degree from all of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would Holling have written about sites
requiring environmental cleanup, about waterways covered with a sheen of oil,
about forests in a parched land threatened by fire?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nature in the past tense?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And can he
still serve as the voice of conservation of a land that holds so much wonder
and meaning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-60799948621664445722015-06-12T07:25:00.000-07:002015-06-12T07:25:02.317-07:00Readers Write and a Home Is Found for HCH’s Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s nice to hear that
we’re adding just a bit more to the body of work attributed to Mr. Holling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deb, a reader, reports that she discovered
our blog “while searching for information about the Kitchen Klenzer Circus
items I had purchased at an estate sale.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had planned to sell them on eBay <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">First sold in 1908, Kitchen Klenzer is
an example of an early packaged product whose illustrated label, in attempting
to depict the product “in use,” wound up creating a recursive “Droste Effect.” <em>(Named
after<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Droste cocoa, which was packaged
in a similarly recursive illustrated container.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It was sold largely through newspaper advertising,
and here is where Holling’s Circus promoted the product.</span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deb got in touch with the inimitable
research and museum curator Joan Hoffman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She read the August 2011 post, she says, “That [Joan]<span style="color: black;"> had the elephant but not his blanket, and I had two
blankets but no elephant, I started researching your museum and found you had a
Facebook page and sent a message asking if you still needed that blanket and
offered to donate it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, charitably,
she says, “I had many more pieces than you did I decided not to list it on eBay
but donate it all to you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until I found
the circus at that sale I knew nothing of Mr. Holling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only bought it because I was charmed by the
colors and the detail of the illustration — and I thought it would sell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joan sent me a note
recently, saying, “Thanks for steering this lady to us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put together the Kitchen Klenzer Circus
elephant and camel this week and they now reside in the museum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had the camel, zebra, and lion cutouts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although she didn't have the elephant, for
some reason there were two elephant blankets in the estate package she bought. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also had the display box. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She walked in to the museum a week ago
Thursday and gave it all to us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
unbelievable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Little stories like
this, where pieces of paper and advertising ephemera find a permanent home,
make me happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small events can make a
difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-91281777043746607062015-05-13T08:33:00.001-07:002015-05-13T08:33:09.029-07:00Who Was That Writer with the Odd Name?A note from Joan Hoffman at the museum in Lisle, Mich., intrigued me regarding Watty Piper and the publisher, Platt & Munk. Who was this prolific writer and where did Holling Clancy Holling fit into the publishing scheme? <br />
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Joan wrote, “I want to clarify about the text and illustrations in <i>Children of Other Lands</i>. The Hollings (Holling and Lucille) painted those full-page colored illustrations and drew all the marginal drawings. The plates for those were full-page illustrations originally used for the covers of <i>Junior Home Magazine</i>. Holling had a short story to go with each of those covers that appeared on one of the first pages of the magazine.”<br />
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She continues, “During the Depression, <i>Junior Home Magazine </i>went out of business. Platt and Munk bought those beautiful plates and used them in <i>Little Folks of Other Lands </i>(1929) and <i>Children of Other Lands </i>(1933). Holling's short stories were rewritten and made longer. Watty Piper was the writer. That was a pseudonym.” And, she added, “I have heard the pseudo writer could be one of a couple possibilities so I can't give you a definitive answer on that.” <br />
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A quick search of the Internet reveals “Watty Piper” was actually Arnold Munk, a Hungarian immigrant who co-counded Platt & Munk, the publishing house in Chicago, and served as in-house editor. He was best known for retelling the story of <i>The Little Engine That Could </i>in 1930 and selling millions of copies. Platt & Munk today is a subsidiary of Penguin Books.<br />
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Now the story becomes interesting, but confusing:<br />
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Enter Eulalie (pron. <i>Ú</i>-la-lee) Page. She was born Eulalie Banks on June 12, 1895, to Marie Minfied and Frederick Francis Banks, the youngest of nine children; in Southeast London, England. “All sources indicate that she had a real love and talent for illustrating from a very early age,” reported Kay Vandergrift of Rutgers University (<a href="http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/eulalie.html">http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/eulalie.html</a>). At age 15, Eulalie “landed her first job as an illustrator for a children's page in a woman's magazine,” Vandergrift wrote. “At age 18, the book titled, <i>Bobby in Bubbleland</i>, became her first published work. She was both author and illustrator.” (Ms. Vandergrift, professor emerita at Rutgers, died July 1, 2014.)<br />
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Platt & Munk commissioned her in 1925 to illustrate the book, <i>The Cock, The Mouse, and The Little Red Hen</i>, edited by Watty Piper (presumably Arnold Munk). It was her first book published in the United states and the first of many published by Platt & Munk. In all, Eulalie illustrated some 53 mostly inexpensive children’s books, a good share published by Platt & Munk.<br />
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Among the works listed by Vandergrift under her résumé, however, is <i>Children of Other Lands</i>, written by Watty Piper and published by Platt & Munk in 1933. This may be in error, however, because both Holling and his wife, Lucille, are listed as the illustrators of the book now in print and available on Amazon.<br />
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A follow-up conversation with Joan reveals the original book, <i>Little Folks of Other Lands </i>(1929) published by Platt & Munk, became <i>Children of Other Lands </i>(1933) with six fewer full-colored illustrations and lacking the Hemisphere maps on the front and back inside covers.<br />
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The original <i>Road in Story Land </i>(1932) has a red & blue edition (arranged in different order). It became <i>Folk Tales Children Love </i>(1934) and <i>Magic Story Tree </i>(1964). The latter two books are the same except the stories are arranged in different order and have five fewer stories than the original Road in Story Land.<br />
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“So,” she writes, “one might think there are six different books while all the material comes from the two originals.” Confusing, or simply good marketing? <br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Possibly,” the writer suggested, “it might be an unused scene from [Holling’s 1936] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Book of Cowboys</i> … because the art style is strikingly similar and fits the storyline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, it might have been an original background mockup.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The resident expert in this case, Joan Hoffman of the Leslie, Mich., museum, came to the rescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She noted that the museum has a package of 12 illustrations about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children of Other Lands</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The publisher’s name appears in the bottom left, she adds, but only on the envelope is it noted that the illustrations are by Holling C. Holling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Also in the museum’s collection is a box of six Indian jigsaw puzzles and a box of six Cowboy puzzles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same identification of publisher and illustrator on the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the mystery art is not from the puzzles or the book, perhaps this is an outtake — a piece Holling produced but was sold singly by P&M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joan Hoffman states, “The publisher was within its right [to publish the art], but profited more than the Hollings did…in these examples and their other work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So, art detectives, keep your eyes peeled! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someday we may have a definitive <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">catalogue raisonné</i> of all the commercial art that Holling and his wife, Lucille, produced.<o:p></o:p></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">technique </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">in rendering landscape and trees.</span></td></tr>
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-63305688278303140112015-03-20T11:44:00.000-07:002015-03-20T11:44:00.185-07:00 Roughing It, Returning Alive, and Writing – part 2
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with camping and boating, the Hollings became adept at recognizing edible wild
foods and cooking under primitive conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not to be outdone when Holling was away from camp, Lucille became motivated
to study wild foods, including mushrooms, and create her own recipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times, the Hollings did live off the land,
killing animals for food — never for sport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is why they also lived for a while with Native Americans to
learn how they interacted with the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
1922, they lived with the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Recently
we ate with a pueblo family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat on
the black adobe floor worn almost to a glaze by moccasin-soles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among us, in the center, a shallow basket of
delightful design cradled a cascade of breads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Flat round breads of corn meal baked on hot rocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tortilla, these were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there were the huge puffballish loaves
of a whiteness which had been baked in the Eskimo-igloo affairs out front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we had goat’s milk in painted mugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And bowls of chili.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And green peppers and thin plates of venison
haunch, squash and beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now I ask
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you had gone most of a
sun-scorched day over desert with no water – would you elevate your nose at
this menu?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet some speak of “Poor,
Starving Lo.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
similar auto-didactic fashion, Holling learned to paddle a canoe like a Native
American, portage, craft bow and arrows, chip arrowheads, twist fish lines from
the inner bark of basswood saplings, make bone fish hooks, tan leather sew it
with sinew, and make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">makaks</i> from birch
bark in which to cook and store food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lucille learned the art of porcupine quill embroidery and making r4obes
from rabbit skins and turkey feathers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
good deal of this information can be found in the Hollings’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Book of Indians</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
also proved their generosity when they taught these skills to Native Americans
who had forgotten their own heritages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-38834657711720488882015-03-18T12:37:00.003-07:002015-03-18T12:37:58.597-07:00Roughing It, Returning Alive, and Writing – part 1
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Holling’s
art and writing was closely intertwined with his naturalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He — and in fairness, his wife, Lucille — were
people of the outdoors beginning with his early jaunts camping in New Mexico
and exploring places like the Mississippi River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We’re
lucky to have the Master’s thesis written by Hazel Gibb Hinman in 1958 at the
University of Redlands, California, to chronicle some of the Hollings’
activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through her interviews we
learn that in August 1927, Holling and Lucille took a three-week canoe trip
into the Canadian wilderness north of Missinabie, Ontario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were joined by Tom Brown, a reporter for
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Sun</i>, whom they had met on
their world cruise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Camping
and canoeing over the next decade contributed to the Hollings’ graphic work for
Cunard lines, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saturday Evening Post</i>,
advertising, newspaper features and illustration for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bookhouse</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Book Trails</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Holling
became an “expert,” Gibb says, joining a boat club, racing canoes and shells, and
learning survival techniques if the worst happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holling insisted Lucille become a good
swimmer, and they kept a canoe at Chicago’s Lincoln Park on Lake Michigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perversely, Holling liked to go out on the
lake during a “blow” when bad weather hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gibb surmises that Holling felt he needed to battle the elements in
order to portray them vividly and accurately in his writing and art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucille said she could look at the whitecaps
on the lake from their window in the Palmolive Building, and one wonders how
she felt at those times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Holling
recalled one such instance when he paddled about two miles out on the lake in rotten
weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Returning, he noticed a crowd
on shore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting closer he saw an angry
police officer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gibb says of Holling, “Still
panting from exertion, the [Irish] policeman gestured wildly and commanded him
to come in immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Don’t you know
that you might have been drowned!’”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Holling
said he didn’t know quite what to do, so to gain time to think, he yelled back,
“Let me rest a minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m fagged!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly
thereafter, the policeman had cooled off and Holling could explain the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told Gibb he still thought long afterwards
that the cop might have arrested him if he had gone ashore immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
might have proven embarrassing in the 1920s would today would become the source
of publicity, promotion, and Twitter bragging rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hazel Gibb Hinman’s [1910-2004] thesis dissertation
became a book, published by the University of Redlands in 1958 and titled </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Lives and
Works of Holling Clancy Holling<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></div>
Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-55389775549932859062014-11-29T11:38:00.002-08:002014-11-29T11:38:20.561-08:00Where Has All the Hollings’ Art Gone?<br />
Viewers regularly see magazine and book illustrations appraised on <i>Antiques Roadshow</i>, which make s one wonder where Holling and Lucille’s original art can be seen. I was ready to search a number of universities and museums for leads when Joan Hoffman answered my question. Joan is the curator behind the Leslie Area Historical Museum in Leslie, MI.<br />
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She writes that the museum has seven original paintings and many copies. Pictured here are photos of two of Holling’s watercolors. Two other originals are unique in that they are murals cut from the wall where they were painted and donated to the museum by the owner of the house originally owned by Holling’s grandparents. <br />
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Two came from a Leslie resident who is the granddaughter of Holling’s grandfather’s sister. Three other pieces, she says, were donated by Holling’s niece, Linda. Linda is a Michigan resident, Joan explains, and her family may have about 15 framed originals plus other unframed pieces of art.<br />
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Another niece, living in California, has several originals.<br />
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If you were on the road before the 1950s, you might have stopped in Chicago to see the Holling murals that were in Bob Drake's Ranch Restaurant on Michigan Ave.. There were eight murals by Holling and Lucille in the dining room on the subject of Indians and food. (Indian hunting and fishing, cultivating, gathering and preparing food, and then the feast.) There were murals over the bar. One, a stage coach mural by Holling. Joan says, “Bob’s [grandson] lives in Colorado. and made copies of what he has, which included everything from the menu, match covers, and the outside of the building and sign, all designed by the Hollings!”<br />
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At the Nine Quarter Circle Ranch in Montana (5000 Taylor Fork Rd., Gallatin Gateway, MT), some of Holling's decorative iron work still adorns walls, door hinges and door handles shaped like animals. This dude ranch is owned by the Kelsey family.<br />
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But the vast amount of Holling-related material is archived at the University of California-Los Angeles. Their collection includes book proofs, correspondence, news clippings, research materials, models (two, of Paddle-to-the-Sea that Holling built), drafts, illustrations, dust jackets, two sound recordings of books , sketches, drawings and working illustrations, stencils, watercolors, and cartoons. But, UCLA’s archives do not appear to have the magnificent artwork published in the Houghton-Mifflin books. The archive’s contents can be reviewed at <a href="http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/bt/tf6k4007bt/files/tf6k4007bt.pdf.%3C/div%3E">http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/bt/tf6k4007bt/files/tf6k4007bt.pdf.</a></div>
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So the Hollings’ artwork still lives on outside of the books. You just have to look hard for it.<br />
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Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-24062116533685032152014-09-22T11:17:00.001-07:002014-09-22T11:17:13.862-07:00Kids Putting Museums in Their Bedrooms (continued)I’m enchanted in discovering small bits of output from long-ago artists. Thus, I was so happy to learn Mary Mosier, a follower of this blog, has ventured back in time to track down Holling newspaper dioramas. As described in the last post here, these World Museum dioramas encouraged kids to back up the artwork on sturdy paper, cut them out, and assemble them into small dioramas of the sort they hopefully had seen in museums.<br />
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Ms. Mosier wrote and shared this enthusiasm through a news feature in the <i>San Antonio Light </i>published on May 23, 1932:<br />
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Seven-year-old Sam Hunter Jr., 439 McKinley avenue, admires one of the dioramas from the Sunday Light comic section which show three-dimension scenes of historic interest. This week the subject is Spain. Youthful readers of The Light are taking trips to foreign lands, living a while in the days of long ago. Arid all without leaving their living rooms or wherever it is they choose to spread out the Sunday paper to read the comics. In the big comic section of The Light finding a new way to learn all about the story and habits of people who lived when the world was young and when history was in the making. By means of dioramas, which show scenes in three dimensions, they can see just what the lands look like of which they read in school. By clipping out the weekly installment of “The World Museum” and cutting and pasting according to directions, scenes of foreign lands can be duplicated. This Sunday's natural history group by Holling Clancy Holling presents Spain with its brightly colored roof tops and snow capped mountain ranges. The accompanying printed matter gives succinctly the ebb and flow of different races across the Hispanic scene, tells of Columbus setting out for his new world. Each week a different land, different people will be presented in "The World Museum" in The Light's big colored comic section.<br />
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Ms. Mosier said it was “a bit of a fluke” that she found a lot of constructed dioramas from the <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer </i>for sale. The 13 samples were put together so well that they could be taken apart and reassembled. <br />
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Certain of the dioramas “are quite interesting,” she says. “The ones of nature subjects (pandas, emperor penguins, mountain goats) appear to be miniature replicas of Field Museum life size versions of the same scene, complete with text describing how the animal specimens were collected, and the artists and technicians who prepared the scene/” <br />
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She has been comparing information with Joan Hoffman at the Holling Museum in Leslie, Michigan, and sharing scanned copies. Ms. Mosier says of the covered wagon topic, “Hers were the Platt and Munk [publisher of Holling books] reprints, mine being the newspaper publication. This revealed that the reprints were to the same size as full page newspaper, and had (apparently) the same level of detail. However, the newsprint color selection is printed in more subdued…and a greater variety of colors. The reprints are very bright and with a limited color selection. I am in the process of scanning these examples to a digital format in order to preserve the originals.”<br />
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It’s wonderful that this material is being archived since, by their very nature, newspapers were not meant to vbe saved. Ms. Mosier explains her dedication to this labor:<br />
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“I enjoyed Holling's books when I was a child — <i>Paddle-to-the Sea, Minn of the Mississippi </i>and similar titles that he is most remembered for. As one of my current interests is American pre-history, I remembered some sections of Minn that touched on this and reacquainted myself with that book. One thing led to another and I discovered your blog, Mrs. Hoffman's work, and many other Holling's works that I had never known about.<br />
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“I am interested in paper crafting and also museum displays, and from that I became extremely interested in the World Museum features. An additional interest was that there appeared to be so few examples of them in a format similar to the original publication.<br />
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“The concept of capturing these features in a digital copy, in the original colors, is very exciting to me.” Fate, she says, brought her the collection of 13 examples on eBay. They were sold by someone with little understanding of what they were. Because they had already been cut out of the newspaper, they may have had little appeal to the typical collector of ephemera.<br />
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“I'm making digital records for my own use, and plan to build several of the dioramas for fun, but from ‘new’ printed copies,” she says. It’s not clear who owns the copyright to the World Museum artwork, but Ms. Mosier guesses it may be Platt and Munk. “It seems a shame that this and the other Holling papercraft items (the American frontiers series, the Forty-Niners, and the astonishingly beautiful eskimo village playset) are not available in print.”<br />
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“I am slowly making a listing of World Museum dioramas, dates, newspapers, where they were published, and the text on the features. This is based in the examples I have, and black and white newspaper archives I am slowly finding on line. When I exhaust this, I suppose I will start trying to find examples in hard-copy newspaper archives, starting with the ones in my state library (if any of those include the World Museum.)”<br />
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And her quest continues. She recently found a seller of single sheets of vintage comic sections, dating from 1937 and ‘38. “He had items for sale that I recognized as having appeared in newspapers that also ran World Museum. He responded to my query, writing that examples of the World Museum are pretty rare and that he himself collected them, and that he would put any ‘duplicates’ to his own collection up for sale.”<br />
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Add another credit to Ms. Mosier. She recently discovered that “the Hollings created some of the beautiful full color illustrations that appear in the first two volumes of the <i>My Book House </i>series, created by Olive Beaupre Miller in 1937. (Although many of the individual selections in those date back to the 1920s, I'm unsure whether the Holling's work dates to around 1937.) The first two volumes are nursery rhymes and poetry; some being English translations: <i>In the Nursery </i>is volume 1 or the series; <i>Storytime </i>is volume 2. Dover has reprinted both of these in 2013.”<br />
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To Holling’s résumé of achievements — storyteller, illustrator, naturalist — I’d suggest adding "marketing genius." In the 1930s, he created the World Museum. This was a full-page illustrated feature that ran in U.S. newspapers.<br />
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Subjects included the Grand Canyon, a buffalo hunt, and covered wagons. Children were instructed to cut the pictures apart and assemble them into a diorama like those they might have seen in natural history museums. Pasting them onto cardboard or stiff paper made the dioramas sturdier.<br />
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Mary Mosier has exchanged notes with me and Joan Hoffman, docent at the Holling museum in Michigan, on this elusive subject. Ms. Mosier reports, “The UCLA Library also appears to have working drawings of some World Museum subjects in their collection of Hollings papers.” UCLA’s descriptions and other Ms. Mosier found include these subjects that appeared in the papers: Ancient Minoan bull jumpers in an arena, undersea exploration with divers in hard suits, tropical jungle plants with explorers in pith helmets, Buffalo Bill Cody (uncertain if this features the wild west shows or Cody's early life.), cavemen scenes, pioneers or tradesmen in Conestoga wagons, reptiles, Holland, Poland, Spain, China, France and India.” She is also uncertain if the national features focused on historic or contemporary scenes.<br />
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She comments, “From what little I have seen, the World Museum dioramas were exemplary examples of a type of educational play that seems to me to stem from the public museum dioramas of figures and specimens. Given his work [Holling did] for the Field Museum this seems very natural to me. The high quality and serious purpose that seems to be displayed in the examples of the World Museum I have seen are only what one would have expected from Hollings.” <br />
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Newspapers are becoming ephemera that are rarely saved. Making the archival task more difficult, the World Museum features are often referred to as “comic strips,” and reproductions are usually found in black-and-white.<br />
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Joan Hoffman has completed some valuable research, however. “The Hollings sold the World Dioramas to the Esquire Features Syndicate,” she states. “This feature ran for 52 weeks served by this syndicate, including 28 Hearst Syndicate newspapers. They were inserts in the Sunday edition; comics are on the back side. The Michigan Holling Collection owns eight different unassembled colored World Museums. They are each 15-1/2 x 20 inches.”<br />
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Youngsters were instructed to paste these onto brown paper to make them stronger, cut out the pieces and then assemble them, she explains. “When completed, they are three-dimensional like a curved stage with figures. Some are about different cultures, historic events, animals, etc. Holling firmly believed that children could make their own museums.”<br />
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“I have never seen these for sale on Internet,” she reports. “Ours were donated by Holling's two nieces. I have not photographed them. If you live in Michigan or will be vacationing here, I would love to show you the collection.”<br />
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In the digital world children now inhabit, it’s worth wondering some “hands-on” education like Holling’s dioramas might be worth reviving and updating for today’s world.Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-88767051221620613092014-07-08T12:30:00.002-07:002014-07-08T12:30:55.643-07:00The Book of Indians: Working from Points of Authenticity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’ve eagerly anticipated reviewing <i>The Book of Indians</i>. But first I had to buy the book ($12, used, through Amazon). And read it, pushing aside other commitments. And doing some background investigation.<br />
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It’s necessary to begin by repeating that Holling and his wife Lucille were, among all their other qualities, authentic writers, illustrators, naturalists and historians. After marrying in 1925, they traveled extensively throughout the Southwest. (Holling’s first exposure had been a year-long stay in New Mexico after graduating college in 1923.) <br />
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Their work reflected their knowledge, as described by Hazel Gibb Hinman in her Master’s thesis in 1958. She reports that in 1929, they stayed at the Nine Quarter Circle guest ranch northwest of Yellowstone Park, helping design the buildings. Traveling that winter up to Alberta, Canada, they took a tepee for camping. (Going to search for tent poles, they came back to find tribeswomen had already set up their tent.) After returning to the ranch to finish their work, they went on to Lubbock, Texas, to paint murals. Then it was out to California, sketching and writing, with their Coleman stove, tent and camping equipment. Never staying overlong in one place, they drove back to Phoenix at rodeo time where they drew and painted, selling their work to finance their travels. (Ms. Hinman notes that in 1934 Holling demonstrated his fire-making skills at a luncheon lecture, starting a fire with two sticks in just seven minutes and so impressing a club member that he asked Holling to design his restaurant.)<br />
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That was just the winter of 1929, and all the while Holling and Lucille were making notes and sketches for two collaborative landmark books, <i>The Book of Indians</i>, (published in 1935 by Platt & Munk) and <i>The Book of Cowboys </i>(published a year later).<br />
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<i>The Book of Indians </i>attempts a grand perspective on North American tribes people in 13 chapters: An introduction into the “types of Indians living in different kinds of country,” four chapters about the home life of children and eight chapters relating their adventures. The book is essentially divided geographically among People of the Forests and Lakes, the Plains, the Deserts and Mesas, and the Rivers and the Seas<br />
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There are six beautiful colored illustrations in the <i>plein-art </i>style of the Southwest, plus many, many sidebar illustrations of children, their homes, tools and weapons, graphic artwork, and animals. The sepia pen-and-ink style drawings make a reader linger and digest each detail of the small pictures in the margins.<br />
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A critical element of this children’s book are the cultural and historical distinctions made by the Hollings. The Native American nations were as different from each other as the European countries, and this is explained in the first chapter. Most dramatically, the Plains Indians changed radically from planters to hunters when horses were introduced in the 1600s. The horse might well have been the cultural equivalent of the Industrial Revolution in Europe.<br />
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I believe we can forgive someone writing in the 1930s about misconceptions that today would be viewed as culturally suspect. Columbus did not think he had arrived in India. (The Spanish term might originally have been <i>hijos in Dios</i>—children of God.) And when a tribes person died it’s insensitive to say “He went to the Happy Hunting Ground.” But these lapses are rare in comparison to the facts that abound: how teepees are constructed and how they evolved, tool-making, housing adapted to the environment, and plant life that forms lifestyles. Happily, the Hollings provide a glossary of 31 words any pre-teen child should be familiar with.<br />
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<i>The Book of Indians </i>is first and foremost educational — and of particular value to home-schooled children. The writing is generally expository, with touches of drama to make the lesson more amiable. The narratives of the children, who are the main characters driving each of the geographical sections, are somewhat two-dimensional. In this, Holling’s narrative ability developed tremendously in the decade until Paddle-to-the-Sea was published. However, the Indian children’s plotting and personalities do grow toward the end when Raven joins the whale hunt and almost drowns (pp. 109-110) and when the slave child Cedar Bough negotiates her freedom by finding a great cache of copper (pp. 115-118).<br />
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The success of Holling’s writing also lies in its simplicity. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea has a Fog Index of 6.9, meaning 91% of everyday words we use are more difficult to read. His Flesch Reading Index score is 75.2, meaning 90% of other vocabulary is harder. (A Flesch score of 90-100 means the writing is understood by an average 11-year-old.) And no one complains because something is too simple. Or because it lacks entertainment. So generations return to Holling Clancy Holling’s remarkable writing — and his wife’s collaborative illustration — year after year.<br />
<br />Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582766337961278500.post-43618254064536616292014-04-28T12:42:00.000-07:002014-04-28T12:54:28.903-07:00Notes from Leslie, Michigan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It’s been a wicked winter in many parts of the country, but life has gone on apace in Holling’s hometown of Leslie. Joan Hoffman has been wonderful about keeping me up-to-date on events there. She wrote a few weeks ago, “The little country church that the Holling's ancestors helped build at Holling Corners in 1900 probably will close soon. Their average attendance has been only eight members and they are running out of resources…. I have a picture of one of the stained glass windows in memory of the Holling family.</div>
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Two of Holling's nieces came to Leslie not long ago. The niece from California, Patricia, was there to visit her 99-yr.-old aunt. The Michigan niece, Linda, brought along some things for the museum as she was downsizing her home, Joan reports. Among the items was the plaque presented to Linda in 2000 as the Leslie High School honored her uncle posthumously at a class reunion. “Linda accepted it on behalf of the family. The Leslie mascot for their athletic teams is the Blackhawk, which is what the figure represents,” Joan explains.<br />
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The California niece goes by the last name of Clancy now, according to Joan. “Her given name was Patricia (Pat). Holling actually suggested naming her Patricia, an Irish name to go with her maiden name Clancy. The family seemed to have a habit of changing names.”<br />
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A final news note has to do with composer, musician and scholar Andre Myers. Mr. Myers, a native of Ann Arbor, composed a piece for narrator and orchestra entitled “Paddle-to-the-Sea.” It’s on an album called “Magical Tunes and Marvelous Tales” A link to this album, performed by the Plymouth Canton Symphony, can be found at <a href="http://www.michiganphil.org/Media/CD.html">http://www.michiganphil.org/Media/CD.html</a>. His work has been called “intense and lyrical…combining narrative drama, poetry, and color.” His performances have also been an educational event for school children. Joan recalls attending a concert in which Mr. Myers narrated the piece before an audience of hundreds of fourth grade children. She recalls that this was made more memorable by having lunch and a conversation with the composer. </div>
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Children are prone to writing and painting on white walls, but rarely do the kids go on to become professional illustrators. Rarer still is having their youthful artwork saved for posterity.<br />
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Circumstances favored Holling’s early painting, but the story begins with the Leslie Area Historical Museum in Michigan. In Joan Hoffman’s words, it was begun by a director who had to leave for reasons of ill health. <br />
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Three people now work to inventory Holling-related artifacts, art and writing. Among the first acquisitions were these murals. But Joan Hoffman puts the story best in her own words:<br />
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“Holling painted these two murals on the upstairs closet walls in his grandparents' Leslie home when he was 16. Holling was living there while going to Leslie High School. Years later, when that house was sold, the new owners wanted to remodel the upstairs [and] cut the two murals out of the plastered walls. The larger of the two included not only a portion of the plastered wall with the painting but the lath and studs as well. The owners kept these murals. When their daughter grew up, she and her husband bought the house and they continued to save them. The daughter, Lynnette Roberts, became a secretary at the Leslie middle school. <br />
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“Steve Hainstock wanted to start a historical society and museum in Leslie. Somehow he knew about these murals and mentioned to Lynnette about my interest in Holling. Through Steve's efforts, in 2007, these murals were given as a gift to the Leslie Area Historical Society and became the center piece of our first display. They were displayed in a glass case in the town's dressmaker's shop.<br />
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“Many things have changed since then. The museum is in a different location and it contains many of the area's historical treasures in addition to Holling. but one of the first things seen when you come through the museum door is those two murals Holling painted in October, 97 years ago. <br />
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“’The Fatal March’ may have been painted from personal experience. Holling wrote in one of his letters that he once ran away from home and got a spanking. Holling loved rail fences and nature's beauty as painted in ‘Autumn's Return.’”<br />
<br />Walt Giersbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326037798233835128noreply@blogger.com0