Appolación Mountain Club Archives Bart Harber 8/9/22 TIMES FLAG RAISING VOLUME VIII (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) Miss Shella Bafa millions of people, operate here without has recently attracted WAS A BIG DAY AT 01 rules and regulations. Congress passés is pupil of Victor certain legislation which places the supervision Leopold management with the great VInterior protege of Josel Hotmank APPALACHIAN CAMP Department which -in turn delegates a from that management to be a bureau called Mr. Hofmann be Aper the National Park Service. follows: Mr. Mather" continued Mr. Peters, deed and has produce the able head of that Bureau, the tion; in two Ra Flag Raising Feature At National Park Service, and our owa and successfully the concert M prince of altruists, Mr. Dorr, has local stage." is Bittle lover Echo Lake Wednesday any charge. They have a policy which 1 fourteen. has given: her services think is wonderfully well adapted. to many charities in Northeast and lage every situation-the this shall be Bar Harbors. She gives a recital in 100 GUESTS PRESENT a in great Democratic Park, for the use of Northeast Harbor at the Neighborhood all people who love nature and appre- House on Tuesday, evening, Aug. 22. 10re In ciate such opportunities as this. And Luncheon, Speeches by Distinguished ner- what could be finer than to have this KAMP KOHUT BOYS Visitors and Other Events tion Club, the very foundation of which AT EAGLE LAKE lies in that close touch with nature? on Program has I am very regretful that the Club comes A party of six from the boys' camp, but once to a place. Kamp Kohut, at Oxford arrived Thurs- O With than one hundred guests Just here was a ripple of dissention day night to spend a few days in Lafay- more in th present the Appalachian Club camp Har im- and the club members informally as National Park. They went inteme- at Echo Lake presented a lively appear- sured the speaker that they would diately to Eagle Lake where they spent ance on Wednesday of last week when ponding certainly make a return trip to the the night, and are to remain during tries their stay. The part was accorn- Judge John A. Peters and the members the Park more Mr Peters\the went on to speak o panied by the campmaster, Charles of his house party were the guests of themor's the liberty pole and its flag and give E. Lillis. After leaving Bar Harbor honor at a luncheon given by the Club Whi that a little history of the first liberty pole they are to go to Rockland to. spend and the Park. er is erected in this section, that at Machias a few days camping in that vicinity. The festivities began with the arrival. that to back in the days of the Revolution This is one the first parties of this and reception of guests. Many drove down into the woods road the con- succijoy- and of its defense from a British ship. sort that has availed itself of the privi- In speaking of his guests, Judge leges and fine camping grounds in the struction of which in a few weeks by cace. Peters said it was a pleasure to bring park. In the party were Newton Rice Lafayette National Park workmen has Ein in to Ellsworth and to Mount Desert of New York, Morris Ulliman of New been the occasion of many favorable Island the members of his party and Haven, Donald Adleberg of Codar- remarks. Outside in the main road, tive Su) he would ask them to speak to those hurst. L. I., Daniel Sherby, Robert lines of cars were parked, and there Socialty present. Baum, and Louis Hoffenmaier of Wash- were many guests from the various He spoke of the Hon. Wilfred W. ington. reven-ect towns, the boards of selectment from Lufkin, Collector of the Port of Boston terta Mt. Desert, Southwest and Bar Harbor and introduced him, remarking that SECURE GUARANTORS FOR Tow: being invited and well represented. he had come on his private yacht, CHAUTAUQUA NEXT YEAR by The sounding of the bugle and then rual the revenue cutter Ossippec. In the sever the notes of the Star Spangled Panner, the midst of laughing applause Mr. Lufkin The guarantors for the 1928 Chau- at SL spoke briefly expressing his pleasure tauqua are: J. H. Butterfield, Mrs. with Supt. George B. Dorr of Lafayette John the at being present. Mr. Lufkin in m Morris Lymburner. Mrs L. Canning. National Park pulling the flag slowly Willi plying to Judge Peters' laughing accu- Rev. W. E. Patterson Mrs. Myra D. up the new liberty pole while all stood Mrs. on- sation that he was no mountain climber Joyre, Mrs. H. F. Carter, Mrs. Ardello at attention in salute and as the flag Gord: is said he wanted to go on probation as Hadley, Mrs. Effle Road, Mina Geral- huttered from maschead, giving the Sherfeel 11 possible member of the club. dine Butterfield R. 1. White, E. J. oath of 'allegiance; was an inspiring W. In like mannier the Judge introduced, Slishne, H. I Hodgkins, Mrs. F. G. picture. opern ies, with many a iquaint and witty quip Small, Berth Polition, Dorother Stan- With the sounding of the dinner call who de- of kindly humor, the Ilon. Jacoir John lay, John Thompson, Rev. Dayton the guests, men in one line and women eveni Rogers, the Ilon. Allan T. Trundway, E. McClain, Mary Hope Dow Mrs. in the other, prepared for the march the Massach usetts congresmen. Both were T. A. Mclatire, Eugenier H. to the refreshment tent where Chef with greeted with applause Judge l'etern Allen Mitchell, Arthur C. Gray. Amos of Bellamy of the Camp Force assisted then introduced Gen. John 11. Sher- Salinbury, 11. Bloomfield, Mim C. B. chest by B. L. Hadley, Chief Ranger and Foi kes burne of Boston, the only volunteer Spence. B. In Hadley, hire. Irving by Miss Crosby and Miss Oakes of the Sundive. officer to be made a Brigadier General Frost, S. D. Hecht Co., Albion F. Fark service looked after the general in the Great War. Gen. Sherburne Sherman. serving. The manner in which the serve, of rose, in response to Judge l'uters an- present bringing together of the two lines 11-4- nouncemient of 1 'real general expressed with are. sembled the partners for dinner was his pleasure and thanks to those who at the office as well as at the camp in Mrs. art applauded him but did not make a the Club's behalf, the work of II. M. a social element which went far toward Mrs. The speech. Smith of the ranger force and others. dispensing with all formality. The party Miss Jennie Doe of New Hampshire, A1 the close of the exercises, the in menu was a delicious one and well visitiri the a member of the State Legislature of formal greeting of various members A served. Fish with cream sauce, clam drivir chowder and coffee, the two latter her home state made a brief but telling of the club, of the town officials from me for tl little speech, saying that New Hamp Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert, took up items prepared by Henry Bragdon of tertai of shire with her own scenic beauties was all hour or more. President Rogers of Bar Harbor as only he can do it, vege- at dir, in far from Jealous of Maine and her beau- the Club was cheered Mat he left the table salad, ice cream, cake, doughnuts in th tiful first eastern Park. Fred Tucker, campgrounds in early afternoun on and coffee made up a delicious lunch. intere em a former president of the Club spoke his may to Hoston on business. The At the close of the luncheon hour. Anoish briefly as did Gardiner Jones, one of Congressional party received their share the guests assèmbled on the shore of summ. the Club alchest members, having of applause and three cheers echord the lake, while President William F. Spring joined in 1876. M.S Supt. Derr of the l'ark left the camp. Rogers, of the Appalachian Club, be- Manager Staples of the Camp then The day was M success from every July on- gan the speaking program, introducing asked various of those who had been point of view. Guests present who 11 Judge Peters. Judge Peters, associated ers One connected with the event to speak. were noted were Philip Livingaton of so closely in the minds of all with the that een S. 11. Mayo of Southwest Harbor m New York; Miss Clio Chilcott, a Lafay sponded to the tribute of cheers and etts National l'ark lecturer of New creation of Lafayette National Park Tuewind told of the first liberty pole at Machias. applause paid (t) him and the people York, Mice Blackwell head of the here In part Mr. Peters said: ght of Southwest Harbor generally for their department of French of Washington nemb "I was asked to welcome you to kindness to the club. Benjamin 1. Irvent 1ligh achood New York; Mrs. over jnce this luncheon as guests. On reflection Hadley chief ranger responded in . Robert Lincoln O'Brien and son Lin brief but graceful characteristic and coin, wife of the aditar of the Boston I find it is entirely improper. It is your the carrt. ette lon kindly little speech in which he depre Herald; Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Davia of Park-not mine, nor Mr. Dorr's, but was cated thanks anying that he had en Hartford, Conn. yours. I helped what I could in the Runge hat joyed the cooperation with the club A feature of the afternoon was the passage of legislation which made it Crush will that it was pleasure and not duty. taking of photographs in which many possible for this Park to become yours. served Mr. Stapler made an appreciative besides theme present for the purpose It is yours. The deeds are duly re- panyin ral speech of appreciation of the l'ark in participated. The Park cameras oper- corded in your name. You have a right general, from Supt, Dorr down to the alsed by Herbert W. Gireson the well to be on your own land. I think it group ent and office force, mentioned the work done known lecturer and photographer and proper, however, for me to mention assisted by Emest Gustainum and will which that we cannot all of us, one hundred lim B. Campbell of the Park service of the (CONTINUED ON PACE 3) played an Important part. who EDWARD B. MEARS cor41 ECHOES OF ECHO Memories of Echo Lake Camp Appalachian Mountain Club Mt. Desert, Maine Edited by Mary P. Mitchell 1989 Amd INTRODUCTION On the sixty-sixth anniversary of the Appalachian Mountain Club's "rustication" on the shore of Dennings Pond (renamed Echo Lake by earlier summer folk) it is, again, time to celebrate Camp's spot in time, and the many special people who have made Echo Lake Camp SO dear to us all. Appalachia, the monthly bulletin of AMC interests and activities, has described in several accounts Camp history. It's first "sighting" was ninety-three years ago by sixty-five Club members who, after a day's tramping on Beech Hill, rested on the edge of Beech Cliff overlooking Echo Lake. That vision became reality twenty- seven years later in the form of August Camp: four weeks, two sections and over 100 Club members and guests on a leased rough site. And since 1934 with thirteen acres now deeded to the Appalachian Mountain Club by Acadia National Park founder and Superintendent, George B. Dorr, a continuous involvement of the AMC on Mount Desert has flourished, to which Camp is itself a memorial. Sixty-six years of locations and traditions: Camp Committees, Managers and As- sistants, Chefs and Assistants, Crew (young men, now young men and women), Naturalists, Leaders and Assistants for day time and and evening activities, sections (two weeks, now commonly one), and Campers. Club-vision has provided generations of campers an experience that remains es- sentially unchanged since August Camp days long ago, itself a unique accomplish- ment in a world unsettled by constant change. And SO we vie, as earlier campers did, for registration in sections led ably along trails to vistas predictably beautiful, enjoying Camp fellowship and trusting Camp management and Club involvement to preserve this experience for us and others to share - hopefully - again and again. - Herb Sorgen ix Wednesday evening Cyl No. 2 Notes: Remember that the boys club house at the head of Echo Lake by Beech Cliff should not be given away either,to the Government or other, without due provision for its future. The site is valuable in the end more valuable than the building and the sito I gave together with the beach below it, with due provision made tha if conveyed to the Govern ont for such continued use as I intended when I gave the land. being properly Nobes See that the property is looked after THE CLUB'S PERMANENT CAMPS 367 the appeal of the unspoiled little lake, there is a peculiar charm to Ponkapoag, heightened greatly in that it can be reached by auto, over a delightful route, in less than an hour from the heart of the busy city. With these natural advantages, the cleverness and ingenuity of members can be counted upon to do much to add to the pleasure of visits. To spend a starlit evening by a camp-fire at the edge of the pond, surrounded by great stretches of woods, after a busy day in the city, is a real refreshment of the body and spirit. Perceral Sayward ECHO LAKE CAMP The beginning of the Echo Lake Camp dates from the regular August Camp of 1922, which was made possible in this location by the invitation and cooperation of Mr. Geórge Dorr, the Superintendent of the Lafayette National Park, and his assist- R.G. Clough ants, Mr. B. L. Hadley, Chief Ranger, and Mr. Henry Smith, CAMPING AT PONKAPOAG Ranger. It was through their efforts that a rough road was constructed into the camp, a site cleared to permit the erection of tents, and a cabin built, which served first as a kitchen and later as an office. The first year of the camp was a rough one. Tents were erected wherever the topography of the cleared space permitted. The so-called dining-tent served as a shelter from the sun and as a plaything for the rain and wind. The usual excellent spirit of the August Campers soon overcaine physical discom- forts, and they became enthusiastic over the features and attractions peculiar to the Lafayette National Park. At the end of the season this enthusiasm resulted in an almost unani- mous feeling that this camp site should be retained as a per- manent camp for the Club. After consultation with the Park officials, who were most cordial in their invitation to continue, the Excursion Committee appointed a subcommittee with power to equip and continue the camp. In 1925 the control of the camp passed from the Excursion Committee to the Council, which recognized the permanent status of the camp R.G. Clough by the appointment of a managing committee, as in the case N K A P O A G CAMP of the older camps of the Club. From this rough beginning in 1922 the camp has gradually grown in comfort and in size. Chief among the improvements which have increased the comfort of the camp are the following: 1 1024 VIG as ed et by n- he er lr. ed by Photograph by Herbert W. Gleason n. its EAGLE LAKE, LOOKING SOUTH The highest elevation is Sargent Mountain. Showing an Appalachian y Club group. George B. Dorr is in white. SO the pirate chest and frequently bought powder to blow it open. Acadia Mountain was the gift of Mr and Mra Annumencall 19 June 1991 Carl Demrow AMC Trails Assistant Appalachian Mountain Club 5 Joy St. Boston, MA 02108 Dear Carl, Last summer I was one of the AMC Volunteers on your crew at Bascom Lodge - - the philosophy professor from the University of Hartford. I've recently seen your name in the "AMC at Work" section of the Bulletin and wondered if you might help me secure a copy of "Trails Today: A Heritage at Risk." I've read about the inventory in the June issue of the Bulletin but would like to examine the data in greater detail. Is it available for purchase? I'd appreciate any help you could provide. Your enthusiasm for the trails is infectious. Since last summer I've volunteered for trail work parties with the Connecticut AMC, The Nature Conservancy, and the Connecticut Parks and Forest Association. I'm delighted that AMC has been able to make use of your talents and wish you the very best! Cordially, Ronald H. Epp 137 Salem Dr. Cromwell, CT 06416 The Appalachian Mountain Club's step-by-step program for grassroots environmental action groups ORGANIZING OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS SECOND EDITION Roger L. Moore . Vicki LaFarge . Charles L. Tracy A M C APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB FIVE JOY STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02108 617-523-0636 May 4, 1992 Ron Epp 137 Salem Drive Cromwell, CT 06416 Dear Mr. Epp, Carl Demrow of this office informs me that he has secured your permission to use a photograph including you on the cover of our forthcoming book Organizing Outdoor Volunteers. I am delighted that your photo will be on the cover of the book. With this letter is a copy of the rough design for the cover. For our records I have enclosed a model release form and a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Would you kindly read over the form, sign it, have someone sign as a witness, and return the form to me? I'll see that you get a copy of the book when it is published. Thank you very much. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Best regards, Gordon Hardy Galley Editor Appalachian Mountain Club Books FIASHBACK Higher Learning Taking the measure of mountains, 1800s-style By KATHARINE WROTH efusing to let modesty get tool, "a telescope to which a delicate over two feet long. It was bulky, and Ed- R in the way of scientific level is firmly attached. A micrometer mands had trouble maneuvering through progress, AMC founder and screw serves to raise or lower one end of King Ravine with it in his pack: "the rash president Edward Pickering the telescope, the other end being at- attempt to carry through the ravine in a took a moment in a speech tached to the base by a hinge." He de- short afternoon the camera was due to to his fellow members in 1877 to tout termined the height of far peaks by a misunderstanding [about the terrain]." his own "topographical work measuring the difference between their Photographs did not replace sketches; [which] includes between six and seven position and his, and boasted that Edmands recommended a combination thousand measurements of the hori- "more elevations can be determined of the two to create "a complete profile." zontal and vertical positions of the with the micrometer level in a single Pocket tools. Edward Pickering's mountains, and will probably determine day, than in a whole season with the brother, fellow explorer and professor the heights of all the prominent William Pickering, put togeth- summits with much greater ac- er a list of smaller tools whose curacy than they have previous- use "require[s] no previous ly been measured." practice." These included a sil- Indeed, Pickering compiled a ver watch in a hunter's case ("a list of heights that vary only a very fair exploration may be few feet from those in the cur- HEIGHT conducted with a watch rent edition of the White Moun- alone"); pedometer ("never tain Guide. And he was not alone gets out of order, never needs in his labors. How did Pickering winding up"; $15); compass and other early members begin ("one of these may be obtained to make sense of the mountains? for 25 cents which will point With ambition, energy, and a few north, but one to be of use in "high-tech" tools. exploration should have the Some of these tools, says cur- degrees marked on it"; $2-$5); rent-day AMC mapmaker Larry Gar- "We were armed with and pocket sextant ("a very convenient land, may still be helpful for orienteers little instrument"; $50). or backpackers trying to differentiate one barometer and tripod, William Pickering wasn't the only one peak from another. "But for actual mea- who wanted to create citizen-scientists; as surements," he says, "it would appear compass, pedometer, Councilor of Topography in 1877, Ed- that technology has set a new standard," mands called on members to consider with methods like GPS and aerial pho- and lunch-bag." themselves data collectors with every trip togrammetry replacing the tools of old. to the hills. Gaetano Lanza was one who Barometer. Manasseh Cutler carried barometer, and the errors will also be took up Edmands' challenge. Consider this unwieldy instrument-a yard-long much less." But portable? Yes, with prac- his account of a trip to a scarred ridge in glass tube and container of mercury- tice; on a trip up Mount Liberty, Pick- New Hampshire (which he and hiking on the first attempt to measure Mount ering struggled: "As this was the first partner F. W. Clarke named, of all things, Washington in 1784. Nearly a century time I had carried the micrometer level Scar Ridge): "On the eleventh of August, later, it was still used to calculate the over such rough climbing, I found its 1877, we started [out], armed with mer- height of a mountain by measuring the fifteen pounds far from an assistance." curial barometer and tripod, aneroid and pressure at its base and peak. The more Topographical camera. Pen and pa- thermometer, compass, pedometer, and portable, but less accurate, aneroid had per served members well, but J. Rayner lunch-bag, bound upon a journey of in- come along since Cutler's era, and both Edmands-he of Edmands Path-sug- vestigation and discovery." were improving when the first Appalachia gested this instrument to improve accu- He made no comment or complaint appeared in 1876; it reported on a new racy, figuring the mechanical eye could about the number and weight of these style with a smaller tube and detachable capture more than the human. Bundled instruments. It was all in a day's work- leather-bottomed mercury cistern. for transport, the camera obscura-with and all for the sake of science. Micrometer level. Pickering made his a wooden tripod and body, glass lens, -Katharine Wroth is associate editor thousands of measurements with this brass plate, and rubber canopy-was just of AMC Outdoors. JULY/AUGUST 2001 AMC OUTDOORS MAGAZINE 13 I A S H B Roots of a Tradition After 118 years, Fall Hiking Week is going strong By KATHARINE WROTH n June, 1882, the AMC's record- "On Sept. 28, 1882, 95 Appies left Boston er George Ensor. In a letter, Ensor told ing secretary found he had much by train in two special cars [bound for Saftel that he and leader Roger Goodwin to report in Appalachia: a leap in Vermont]," Saftel reported. "Three oth- "didn't know where to start counting. membership from 320 to 421, the er members joined en route. Some I'm afraid we'll have to label the num- greatest gain in any year of the climbed Mt. Equinox. Later, they trav- ber as 'arbitrary." club's then six-year history; the creation eled to Lake George for a boat ride." Ensor and Goodwin little imagined of a club seal; the AMC's presence at the A closer look at that 1882 Appalachia the rich history they were benignly ne- Alpine Congress in Milan; a note of grat- reveals that all may not have been fun and glecting, a history rife with ambitious itude to the Massachusetts Institute of games on the trip. "Owing to a misun- AMCers taking convoluted trips. "On Technology for providing space for derstanding, a number who desired to Sept. 21, 1905, 70 members boarded a meetings ("we still look forward to the ascend were not accommodated with car- special train bound for the Wildmere time when our Club shall have rooms riages to the mountain, and thus failed House near New Paltz, N.Y.," Saftel of its own"). And, tucked in among it to reach the summit," the detailed re- found. "At Albany, the cars of the all, this sentence: "The trip to the special train were put on a steam- Uncanoonucs [near Manchester, er and taken to Poughkeepsie. N.H.] was made in October, and There the travelers boarded a fer- as the experiment of an autumn ry for Highland (see photo), where excursion was quite successful, it they took 'electrics'-automo- is to be hoped that it may be re- biles-to New Paltz. From there, peated." they rode in carriages to their des- One hundred and twenty years tination. It is recorded that they after that "experiment," one of the climbed Millbrook Mountain." AMC's oldest traditions is still go- Through the years, members ing strong. The autumn excursion set their sights on destinations has become Fall Hiking Week, a from Mount Desert Island to New volunteer-run event in the White York's Lake Minnewaska; from Mountains that features hikes, pad- the Berkshires to the Green dling, unsurpassable views, and the Mountains, and even New- always popular opportunity to foundland, Quebec, and Ontario. bond with fellow members. For the last few decades, Fall Hiking This year's Fall Hiking Committee is "The experiment was Week has made its base in New Hamp- deep into the planning for September's shire, usually at one of the state's his- event, the 118th such excursion in 125 quite successful, and toric inns. With several organized hikes years. But until recently, the history of in the White Mountains each day; ca- this tradition wasn't always SO clear cut. it is to be hoped that noe explorations on the Saco, An- Over a decade ago, as the year 1991 droscoggin, and Pemigewasset Rivers; drew near, the Fall Hiking Week Com- it may be repeated." and time for sightseeing and socializ- mittee began gearing up for the event's ing, the tradition is still going strong, 50th anniversary. Believing the first week port reads, continuing on to say that "the drawing 80 to 120 folks each year from had been held in 1941-based on a list- day [of the climb] was not very clear, and as far away as Texas. ing in the 1970 AMC Bulletin for the was quite cold." "It's like a family," says committee chair "29th annual Fall Hiking Week"-they Nevertheless, the accommodations Steve Braciak, who began attending in commissioned volunteer Al Saftel to find were "excellent," the idea proved popular, 1984 because of a preference for hiking in out more about how it started. Saftel be- and, Saftel reports, "trips following the cool weather. He hasn't missed a year since. gan digging through the AMC archives Fall Hiking Week pattern were listed in The 118th Fall Hiking Week will be and, he wrote, "immediately struck pay the Journal and Bulletin for most of the Sept. 14-21 in Madison, N.H. For details, dirt": He discovered that the week had years from 1882 [onward]." see Interchapter Activities (page 61) or call actually passed its centennial. So what brought about the listing of registrar Gay Szumyk (860-872-7153). After the one-day Uncanoonucs ex- 1970 as the 29th year? Saftel, trying to -Katharine Wroth is associate editor of periment in 1881, the idea caught on. track down an answer, contacted colead- AMC Outdoors. JUNE 2001 AMC OUTDOORS MAGAZINE 13 FIASHBACK Time Travels Walking with an AMC guidebook-from 1897 By KATHARINE WROTH he first difference, and the pothesizes that Bacon carried a flask of somebody's mind changed." Somebody's T most obvious, is the train sta- something stronger than water.) As in- mind did change, and we follow the now- tion. In 1897, it was a fairly structed, we "take in the arch of the rail- paved road as Bacon had the grassy lane. new stone building whose way bridge"-the commuter train oblig- Losing him somewhat, as his footpaths walls were inlaid with trea- ingly whooshing past as we do-and and stone walls do not match up with sures brought by the townspeople: shells, return to town. Bacon then takes us across the driveways and fences we see, we at- gems, billiard balls, a whale's tooth. To- the railroad tracks into "a neighborhood tempt to meet him at a "rocky promon- day's station is a spare metal plat- tory" over the river. We slip through form, the purple-and-white sign a roadside fence of concrete posts of the Massachusetts Bay Trans- and rusted wire and are delighted to portation Authority declaring in find that we're on Rocky Hill capital letters: "West Medford." Road-this must be the spot!-and But it is still at High Street and even happier that it connects to Ba- Harvard Avenue. And when the con's next street. guidebook my friend and I are us- It is often difficult to see with Ba- ling-Walks and Rides in the Coun- con's eye. "The place on the right" try Round About Boston, written could now be one of 20 houses, or for AMC by Edwin M. Bacon in could be long gone. But at one cor- 1897-tells us to "strike for the ner, two proud homes stand, well- riverside, taking Harvard Avenue," kept. In front of one ("built long we can easily do just that, Bacon prior to the Revolution," he notes, offered 48 walks for exploring "the and a plaque at the site confirms), a most charming region surround- couple does yardwork. Farther ing any modern city." We chose along, we think we spot the brick one-a short loop through this house that was "unroofed in a re- former shipbuilding town-to markable tornado of the summer find out how the view had changed of 1851." As we turn uphill to find since the year William McKinley took of- Like Bacon, we take in the "little public park bearing the name of fice and America's first subway was built. Hasting's Heights," we're happy to dis- Leaving the Dunkin Donuts behind, the arch of the railway cover that it not only still exists, but still we head down the sidewalk past houses bears that name. Pausing at this quiet Bacon describes as "rather too thickly bridge. Seconds later, plot of grass, it is easy to imagine a world settled." At the first turn, onto a street unchanged, easy to think these hilltop that snakes along behind the Mystic Riv- the commuter train homes are filled with 19th-century fam- er, he alerts us to "pretty glimpses of the ilies going about their daily business. river country." Today's houses prevent whooshes past. Winding our way back to the railroad that, but at a bend in the road, they open station (by road instead of footpath), we up and there is, as our guide promises, a of fine roadside trees." The trees do look pass two men bent over the engine of a swath of green. A man walks his dog, and fine, the houses larger than before. Pi- green sedan. Around the corner, we a team of high-school girls works out far- ano notes waft from an open window; stumble upon a plaque bearing the image ther down the way. The Mystic winds by, on a nearby porch, a white-haired man in of Amelia Earhart. The aviatrix lived here slow and wide and brown. Across the riv- a white T-shirt watches the passing traf- in the 1920s; she was born the year Ba- er is the Mystic Valley Parkway, a lovely fic-which is us at the moment. Bacon con's guidebook was published. name for a busy road (Bacon called it a promises more river views on the right, Strolling downhill past barbecue grills "broad, modern boulevard"). Canada but the way is blocked by a complex of and shiny red tricycles, we arrive at the geese float placidly as cars rush by. buildings: Mystic View Condominiums. station. On this quiet Sunday afternoon, Back on the street, Bacon leads us in a In Bacon's day, the street we are on just a handful of people wait for the train. zigzag toward town, then to the river "drifts into a grassy lane as if it were -Katharine Wroth is senior editor of again. (At this point, my companion hy- intended to continue the road when AMC Outdoors. 18 AMC OUTDOORS MAGAZINE JUNE 2002 FIASHBACK Winter of Their Content Early AMC snowshoers broke new ground BY KATHARINE WROTH magine Boston in the 1880s. To say wrote: "The streams being sealed, the proved, according to one Boston news- that it was changing would be like gullies filled, and slopes made more paper account, that winter mountain saying the weather on Mount Wash- sloping, a direct attack may be made climbing in New England is "extremely ington gets, oh, sort of unpleasant upon the desired stronghold." And for invigorating, seldom dangerous and al- from time to time. During that those worried about catching a chill, he ways interesting." decade, a wave of immigrants from Ire- promised equilibrium: "The violent ex- During these years, write Guy and land and Italy swelled the city's ranks. ercise, which causes much discomfort Laura Waterman in Forest and Crag, Electricity arrived for the first time. on sultry days, is little more than is "winter mountaineering passed from Swampy Back Bay was finally the isolated foray of the vi- filled in, adding hundreds of sionary and the eccentric to a ritzy residential acres to the regular pastime of the hardy urban landscape. And de- outdoors set." While hardy mands for women's rights mountaineering was certain- were escalating, as document- ly part of the picture, there ed in the decade's wry, serial- was also plain old fun: races ized Henry James novel The and tugs-of-war, tandem to- Bostonians. bogganing, and ladder- So it's hardly surprising that climbing competitions. the era's AMC members broke Even on serious climbs, this away from convention. Con- newly fashionable mode of vention dictated that winter travel made boys out of men. was for tea parties and games After completing the first of whist, not tramping in the recorded winter ascent of mountains. But a group of pi- Mount Madison, esteemed oneers, using an ancient tool, AMC secretary Rosewell decided to find out for them- Randolph N.H. 1890. Lawrence and fellow mem- selves just what their summer ber Laban Watson "had great playgrounds looked like un- fun coasting down on the der cover of whiteness. Snowshoes took steep slopes, only to be buried deep in them where almost none of their peers Skiers considered the soft snow." had gone before. And they found some- But the fun wouldn't last. The quirky thing surprising in the wintry wilds: one their predecessors world of AMC snowshoeing, which had heck of a good time. begun as a wild form of liberation, went Members began snowshoeing-or at graceless beetles, downhill with the advent of skiing in least documenting the wonders of their the 1920s and 1930s. The new speed web-footed travels-in the early 1880s. A and the Snowshoe demons considered their predecessors few years later, 46 of them created a graceless beetles, and the once-popular "Snowshoe Section," which would run Section crumbled. Snowshoe Section crumbled. popular, lighthearted trips to the White In a 1932 article comparing the two Mountains for decades. Such a trip north sports, legendary adventurers Robert was, wrote John Ritchie Jr. after one of needed for comfort in cold weather." and Miriam Underhill wondered if the the first, "ever a series of delights real- Ritchie did note that high snows made snowshoe would eventually disappear ized and delights anticipated, for snow, navigation challenging, as "branches, from the mountains. They guessed that snowshoe snow, was everywhere." which in summer must clear the wagon it wouldn't, and in recent times, new Thrilled with their "new" season, these tops, swept off our hats or punched us "beetles" have proven them right. For bold adventurers boasted of its bene- amidships." And the danger of falling the allure of winter peaks hasn't dimin- fits. It was easy to follow freshly broken into air holes above frozen rivers or into ished. And the humble snowshoe may tracks, and nearly impossible to get lost. the tangles of spruce traps kept them on still be the best way to soak up memo- Climbing was also less daunting, Ritchie their toes. But their excursions soon rable moments. 14 AMC OUTDOORS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2005 FIASHBACK You Gotta Have Art The AMC was never simply about science By KATHARINE WROTH rom the very start, the science- plea for "suggestions by which [our] the group had secured 400 of Sella's pho- F loving professors who found- work can be made more effective." tos, for the price of $440 (collected from ed the AMC knew the club The council's goals took a leap forward members). Over the next few years they couldn't be just about cold, in 1885, when the AMC rented its first loaned the collection out to museums hard facts. Though explo- home, at 9 Park Street in Boston. This and schools around the country. ration and mapping were their main development provided not only dedicat- At the turn of the century, the council goals, they knew they'd need other ways ed meeting space, but also walls on which began cataloging its holdings, and later to attract members. Keeping that estimated the value for insur- in mind while they created their ance purposes (1,344 "small governing councils, they came photos in albums" were worth up with five: Topography, Ex- a whopping $67.20). The group ploration, Improvements, Nat- hosted regular "at homes" in the ural History-and Art. club rooms, showing off paint- The identity of this last body ings and, increasingly, photos was a bit confused. Councillor from members' trips. of Art Charles Fay, who would For AMC members didn't later be president of the club, at- want to just look at photos, but tempted to define its purpose in began snapping and sharing the first Appalachia. The council their own. In 1888, "fifteen was, he reported, "on the one cameras, to the knowledge of hand, a department of simple the Councillor, are carried by aesthetic enjoyment, on the oth- club members." By 1930, Coun- er, like its co-departments, a field cillor Franklin Jordan reported of work." To pin this vague iden- that "thousands of members of tity down, Fay made some con- the AMC are using cameras crete suggestions, including the more or less, with results rang- need to gain artist members, the ing from the sublime to the desire for a permanent art ridiculous." The Council gave gallery, and the idea that "art" everyone a chance to shine in should include sketching maps for the "It is on the one hand, its first judged exhibit of members' pho- Topography department. tography in 1923, a tradition that con- The notion of art as a useful educa- a department of simple tinued for years. tional and scientific tool continued to Despite the popularity of these events, guide the council as it began its work. aesthetic enjoyment, the officers of the AMC seemed to have Fay's successor oversaw the council's first other issues to focus on. With a stroke exhibition in 1877-a show of paintings on the other, like of the pen in 1932, they stripped the at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Council of Art and the Council of Natu- nology, where the AMC held its meet- its co-departments, ral History of their titles, downgrading ings in those years. them to committees, and replaced them Two years later, the club's first female a field of work." with a Council of Huts. councilor-a Mrs. Phebe M. Kendall- But the new committee, and art itself, took the art helm. (AMC librarian John to display a growing collection of paint- remained a vital part of the AMC, prov- Gerber notes that the department was ings and photographs, donated or ing the founders' notion about science "the primary mechanism for women to loaned, of scenery from the Whites to and art: "the former, like a strong hus- assume leadership positions within the the Alps, New England to New Mexico. band, would do the laborious honor- AMC.") Kendall emphasized the bene- During the 1890s, the Council found bearing work, and the latter, as a graceful fits of art, calling for children to sketch new energy and purpose. Learning of the enthusiastic consort, would win many scenery during the summer to "counter- work of Italian mountain photographer friends to the association." act in part the demoralizing effect of a Vittorio Sella, Fay headed up a "Com- -Katharine Wroth is associate editor three months' vacation." She also made a mittee on the Sella Collection." By 1893, of AMC Outdoors. OCTOBER 2001 AMC OUTDOORS MAGAZINE 15 28(50-51) THE CLUB LIBRARY 291 THE CLUB LIBRARY to them fitting. Frank W. Freeborn and John Ritchie, Jr. in the by ELIZABETH BEAL MONTGOMERY 1890s, for example, collected many books on botany, of poetry on nature and the mountains, of popularization of nature as illns- Sc. N THE VERY FIRST YEAR of its organization the Appalachian trated in Frank Bolles, John Burroughs, Bradford Torrey and I Mountain Club made a definite start in developing a pioneer Olive Thorne Miller. Later, in the 1900s Mr. Ritchie made addi- "special library" which is to-day one of the outstanding mountain- tions to the ornithological field and in 1904 a number of books eering collections in the country. In this first year, and for some on camping and woodcraft were added. years to follow, the duties of collecting and servicing the books In the report of the Corresponding Secretary and Librarian for were. carried on by the Secretary. The first annual report for 1876 1906 we read, "It has always been recognized that the Club could lists a number of accessions to the library, the first item being not build up a large library, but the exact field that it should cover Journal of a Tour to the White Mountains in July, 1784 by Jeremy has never, I believe, been officially established. As it is desirable Belknap, followed by various books, pamphlets, reports and maps, that a consistent policy should be followed from year to year the including French and Italian titles, This collection of the first council has adopted the following vote: 'The library of the Ap- year is rather representative of collecting policies today, with palachian Mountain Club shall represent, as exhaustively as may major emphasis on New England mountains, but with an attempt be, the literature of mountains and mountaineering, and it may at a representative collection of the mountaineering literature of also include works of general geographic interest. In addition, the world. Throughout the seventy-five years there have been sev- it may contain small working collections on subjects germane to eral statements as to the scope and limitations of the subject the several departments of club work.'' matter to be included in the library. Nearly every person who has reported on the library has com- By the time the books pamphlets and maps were moved to the plained of books overflowing their shelving space, including Mr. Park Street office, in 1885, it was discovered that the shelf space Ritchie when he remarked in 1894 that it might soon be necessary allotted was already filled. Prof. Charles E. Fay stated in the an- to decide whether the club room should be for the use of mem- nual report of the Corresponding Secretary for the year 1885 that bers or for the storing of books. The problem of a collection of he felt it was time to consider the aim in forming a library in order books constantly outgrowing its shelving space is not peculiar to that it be more than "a miscellaneous collection of books" or, as the Appalachian Mountain Club library. It is one of the chief it was described in 1880 "a promiscuous pile of books and papers problems for libraries to-day and several methods are being used in a locked case." He continues, "the broadest field within which to solve it, including use of microfilm, microcards, cooperative we might consider ourselves as justified in gleaning would be the storage of books, and weeding out of outmoded or superseded outdoor world; but in my opinion, we should in general make material, and finally by careful selection of current books. Per- no effort to increase our collection in departments where books haps the two latter ways might be best used at present, with a are already easily accessible in other libraries. The mountain and selection of current books covering ALL New England mountain- what pertains to it, primarily, and then geography as a branch of eering literature and the OUTSTANDING mountaineering literature human knowledge seem to me to afford a sufficient scope for use- of other parts of the United States and foreign countries, with a ful effort for the club as a collector of books." Prof. Fay suggested selection of current books in other fields of interest such as canoe- special emphasis could well be placed on maps, in the absence of ing, skiing, and campcraft. These special fields of interest might a geographic society in Boston and inasmuch as the A.M.C. library well constitute an area where occasional weeding could be done. already had a sizeable collection which was moved into the Park Several times extensive weeding was done, as in 1906, when sur- Street office from its storage place at the Massachusetts Institute plus U.S. government documents were returned to the Govern- of Technology. His suggestion that emphasis be placed on old ment Printing Office, and in 1919, when most of the foreign geo- maps of New England and on original drawings of maps, old and graphical journals were transferred to the Boston Athenaeum. new, has been followed to some extent. The first catalog of the Later issues of these foreign geographical journals have also been maps was made by Mr. Dimmock in 1877. sent to the Athenaeum, where they may be consulted at any time Later Corresponding Secretaries and Librarians have built up by club members. It would be well to keep in mind lacunae in the collection from time to time in a particular field which seemed mountaineering books of past years and if possible try to secure 290 292 APPALACHIA THE CLUB LIBRARY 293 them by purchase from second hand dealers or by gift from mem- library itself. In 1883 the Secretary notes that "the duties of li- bers. brarian in charge are rather in the direction of cataloguing than About half the collection has, from its beginning, consisted of of facilitating circulation." The first mention of circulation of periodical material, mainly journals and other publications of books is in the report of the Secretary for 1886, when 28 persons corresponding societies here and abroad. This material is an ex- borrowed 100 volumes. In 1897, the circulation averaged about tremely valuable part of our library. At the time the exchanges one a day, in 1918, 317 volumes were circulated by 81 members, were started most of the corresponding societies had been in ex- and in 1950, 198 books were circulated by 34 members. The fol- istence for only a few years so we were able to obtain nearly com- lowing table may give some idea of the range of interests of those plete files of their publications. Later, through various club mem- members who are library users: bers, we were able to fill in some of our early lacks. Fortunately this periodical material has been well kept, for we read that as 1909 1910 1950 Travel & desc. early as 1883, fifty volumes, presumably including periodicals, 52 98 95 Nature were solidly and elegantly bound. 45 33 10 The library might be considered of primary value for research, Expl. & discovery 40 39 12 as was intimated in 1879 when the Secretary announced, "It is Mountaineering 34 46 55 Scientific handbooks hoped that persons having books or maps of use to the club, which 19 15 15 they can spare, will look upon the library as a proper and safe Guide books and maps 15 10 4 place for them." It is also important as a source of recreational Exchanges 9 19 2 reading to club members. Skiing 5 It is difficult to present a consistent picture of numerical growth Total of the library as it moved from its original home in an alcove of 214 260 198 the Museum of the Society of Natural History, to the Park Street office, then to the Tremont Street Building and finally to the pres- The library today is one of which the Club may be proud and ent Club House. Different methods of enumerating the contents its contents hold much of interest to all club members. It is hoped of the library were used. At one time a "pamphlet" meant a pub- that in the future it will have wider use from members near Bos- lication of under 100 pages, at another it meant a publication of ton and from members at a distance, who are free to request any 150 pages or under. Sometimes the total count included periodi- material by mail. cals, and sometimes periodicals were excluded. It grew from 10 volumes in 1876 to 650 volumes exclusive of pamphlets, plus 379 maps in 1886, to 1,310 books and 1,294 bound magazines in 1915. In 1917, after considerable weeding, and after a complete check- ing of the library by Miss Alice Higgins, there were 1,004 volumes on "mountaineering, travel and nature study." At this time Miss Higgins made a great contribution to the library by compiling a shelf list, an accession record and revising the card catalog. This work has been kept up to date since then by Miss Adelaide Me- serve. In the fifty-year report it was recorded that the library had 1,720 volumes besides 500 bound volumes of proceedings and other publications of mountaineering and geographical societies, and many maps. At present there are about 4,000 volumes in the library. The only record of the actual use of the library by club members is the circulation book kept in the library, in which a member writes his own name and the title of each book borrowed. This does not of course give any record of the use of material in the A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THE CLUB LIBRARY by ROBERT W. LOVETT D URING THE PAST THREE YEARS the Club library has been the object of a special project; this is a report of the result. In an outdoor club such as the A.M.C., little glamor attaches to the library, yet it benefits not only a number of the members but also non-members as well. On it rests one of the Club's claims to tax- exempt status. It has been fifteen years since a brief account of the Library appeared in Appalachia.1 Thus a few words about its history and its situation when the project started may not be amiss. Of what does the library consist? As one of the results of the recent project, we now have a reasonably accurate count. The general collection on mountaineering and allied subjects, housed in the Lawrence Room and the hallway of the second floor, numbers 3,000 volumes. On the third floor, the Kilbourne Col- lection on the White Mountains consists of 424 volumes, older guide books add 335 more, and miscellaneous publications bring the total to 863 books. The journals, located in the first-floor office and the basement, number 1,887 volumes. Thus the grand total is 5,674. A minor point of interest is that books on the Alps total 314, while those on the Himalayas, most of them of more recent date, number 182. When it is realized that the bulk of this material has been given, not purchased (the books for review in Appa- luchia, the journals, which now number 170, in exchange for that publication), the total takes on new signficance. The subject content of the library still follows fairly well the 1906 vote of the Council: ROBERT W. LOVETT is Curator of Archives and Manuscripts at Baker Library, Harvard Business School, and Curator of Archives, the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School. He has been Chairman of the Library Committee of the A.M.C. since 1952. He has contributed book reviews to AIPALACHIA, and wrote "Summit Signatures," which appeared in the June, 1033, issue. 1 In the early years of the Club information on the Library appears in Appalachia in the reports of the Recording Secretary, the Corresponding Sec- retary, and the Treasurer. Between 1904 and 1910 the same source in- cludes a number of lists of accessions to the Library, and between 1910 and 1921 a number of reports of the Librarian are published. In recent years re- ports of the Librarian have appeared with other reports, either in Appa- lachia or in the Bulletin. Elizabeth B. Montgomery's article, "The Club Library", is in the seventy-fifth anniversary issue of Appalachia (XVII, No. 5, May, 1951, pp. 290-293). 2 Appalachia, XI, 261-262 (1906). 55 36(1966-67) 56 APPALACHIA A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THE CLUB LIBRARY 57 "The library of the Appalachian Mountain Club shall repre- included Hervey W. King, who contributed several notes on the sent, as exhaustively as may be, the literature of mountains and book collection to Appalachia, and Elizabeth B. Montgomery, mountaineering, and it may also include works of general geo- who persuaded the present writer to take over when she moved graphic interest. In addition, it may contain small working col- to Amherst. lections on subjects germane to the several departments of club When I first became responsible for the library, about 1951, it work." located on steel stacks in the rear first-floor room, now part of A certain amount of popular natural history is received, and the office, and the journals were in the second floor Lawrence is kept for a time; but mountaineering literature is SO extensive Rook When the office expanded, in 1953, the books and the that there is little space and few funds for fringe subjects. Sug- stacks were moved to the basement. This was never really suit- gestions from members as to additions to the library have always able, because of inconvenience and dampness. It nearly resulted in been welcome. a catastrophe. One afternoon in December, 1954, while the chair- The history of the library may be quickly told in terms of man of the House Committee and I were moving some books, space occupied and officers responsible; it is a story of steady the first stack range collapsed, taking the rest with it. A growth. For five years after the founding of the Club the library thousand or more volumes piled up on the floor, and it was was in the care of the Recording Secretary, and it was located in several days before, with the help of a number of volunteers, a locked case in the Physical Laboratory of the Institute of Tech- order was restored. nology, then in Boston. In 1881 it was moved to an alcove in the We were all pleased when, in 1956, the general collection was Boston Society of Natural History, and the following year was mov. the Lawrence Room and the journals were transferred placed in the care of the Corresponding Secretary. By 1885, when to the basement, but no longer on unsteady steel shelving. The it was moved to à room at 7 Park Street, the collection had grown Lawrence Room and adjacent hallway make a convenient and to over 700 volumes. With the move to the Tremont Building in pleasant place in which to consult the books; the increased use 1897, electricity was installed. At the time of the twenty-fifth of the Library in recent years may in part be due to this. Last anniversary, in 1901, it numbered 1,500 volumes, 1,300 maps, and year ninety-four borrowers took out 343 titles, and this does not 122 exchanges. In 1905 a Library Committee was established, and count use of books within the building. It is of interest that this form of government continues to this day, with the chair these figures approximate those of the 1890's, but there was a man serving as Librarian. drop in the post-World War II years, which is only now be- The library had increased SO much by 1907 that the first over- ing made up. haul was necessary; they seem to come at ten- to twenty-year in- When in 1960, the Yale Outing Club turned over to us tervals thereafter. This one was carried out by Miss Sara Noyes, Frederick W. Kilbourne's ³ collection on the White Mountains, under the direction of Abby L. Sargent; it cost $166.78. In 1917- a room on the third floor was fitted up to house it. The gift was a rather short span-another overhaul seemed necessary; it was made with the approval of Mr. Kilbourne, who died just last performed by Simmons students under the direction of Alice G. year. The collection, to which additions will be made from time Higgins. Further growth required a new room and two steel to time, will be non-circulating; duplicates of most-used titles will stacks in 1921, but by 1923 came the move to Joy Street. Here, be available in the Lawrence Room. In a third-floor front room within the memory of many of us, the library flourished under is the map collection, which has been ably supervised in recent the guidance of Miss Adelaide Meserve, Club secretary. years by a special committee under Philip A. Putnam of the In the 1930s Kenneth A. Henderson, who has served the Club Harvard Law Library. Photographs have been placed in a small in SO many ways, made a most scholarly librarian. He negotiated back room, but more work needs to be done on them. the purchase of the collection built up by Allen H. Bent, bibli- Here is a chance for a knowledgeable volunteer. Thus, with ographer of the White Mountains. And he arranged for still an- minor changes to meet additions, the library appears to be set other re-cataloguing of the library, this one by Laura Beth as to location and space, at least for a few years. Hersey, assisted by Theodore Nordbeck. A large number of pam- In recent years the Library Committee has come to include phlets were handled, the journals were organized, and the subject headings in the catalogue improved. Frederick W. Kilbourne was the author of Chronicles of the White Those who looked after the library just after World War II Mountains (1916). 58 APPALACHIA A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR THE CLUB LIBRARY 59 mostly librarians; this is perhaps natural with a librarian at the During his second year, Mr. Stebbins concentrated on im- head. But I feel that, while some library-trained representation proving the card catalogue. He straightened such complicated is desirable, SO is that of the well-read amateur. I hope that in sections as the cards under Mountain-Mountains-Mountaineer- the future more such persons may be found to serve on the com- ing, or those under Himalaya Mountains, or "Mount Washing- mittee; they could do much toward making the library responsive ton" and "Washington, Mount". In all, he added 1,200 new to the needs of the Club. cards, new guide cards, and new drawer labels. A revised list of The reader may ask, with a committee at work, why was the subject headings was then drawn up, as a guide to future cata- overhaul necessary? It is partly a matter of too many cooks spoil- loguing. When he found that books on national parks were ing the broth or, to change the metaphor, too many doctors for widely scattered, he grouped them together under the classifica- the good of the patient. Over the years, with so many persons tion, W, parks. He also added a new classification, YA, art. He handling the cataloguing and filing, discrepancies had appeared. continued to maintain a close check of books borrowed and to Certain parts of the classification were no longer adequate. With- keep the shelves in order. out an inventory, it was impossible to tell how many books were During the year just past, Mr. Stebbins devoted much of his missing. The honor system, whereby users sign out their books attention to the Kilbourne Collection. A sheet listing had been in a register, works pretty well, but sometimes Club books re- prepared by Benton L. Hatch while the books were at Yale, but main on private shelves for undue lengths of time. this no longer reflected the arrangement of the collection. Mr. Early in 1963 the Council voted funds for a year's job and in Stebbins prepared shelf-list and catalogue cards for the books, 1964 allocated the Club's share of returns from the Dyhrenfurth and placed the pamphlets in suitable boxes under broad subjects. Everest Lectures for its continuance. We can be grateful that Certain desirable items not in the collection were brought up this money was earmarked for the library. And we were fortunate from the second floor. Older guidebooks were moved from the to find Howard L. Stebbins, retired Social Law Librarian, to do basement to a bookcase in the Kilbourne Room. the job. Although he passed his eightieth birthday midway in I doubt if the Club has very often obtained as much return the three-year span, he acts and works like a man twenty years for the approximately six thousand dollars which this three-year younger. His only concessions to retirement were that he worked job cost. part of each day, and he did not work during the winter months As he completes the job for which he was engaged, Mr. when the Lawrence Room is apt to be cool. Stebbins makes cetain recommendations. One is that a bookplate What Mr. Stebbins did may be summarized from his annual be procured. Years ago, the Club had a bookplate but since it reports to the Librarian. During the first year he took an in- shows cherubs frolicking in the mountains, it hardly seems ap- ventory of the collection, discovering that 239 books were missing. propriate now. Perhaps some artistic member can come up with In a few cases these have been replaced, but many will not, and a good design. He also suggests that minor repair work might be their cards have been removed from the catalogue. The House done by a high school girl or boy, under proper direction. And Committee installed additional shelving in the Lawrence Room, he recommends that older books (perhaps before 1890) be moved and Mr. Stebbins spread out the volumes to take advantage of to the third floor, thus making the more recent books in the this. He affixed new labels where needed, concentrated the over- Lawrence Room more accessible, and providing room for ex- size books in one spot, and in general spruced up the appearance of the room. pansion. It is hoped that Mr. Stebbins may be engaged for a short term to supervise this move. Additional shelves have al- He also split up Division V (Sports) into ten groups, as follows: ready been placed in a third-floor hallway. V, mountaineering in general; VC, camping; VD, canoeing; VE, It has not been Mr. Stebbins's job to look after the journals, climbing techniques; VF, fishing and hunting; VH, hiking; VO, and further work should be done on them. Many new exchanges outdoor life; VP, photography; VS, skiing; VW, winter sports. have been set up; some are perhaps not worthy of permanent This also meant changing the number and label and changing preservation. The Map Committee can always use more help, the cards in the catalogue as well. Attention was called to new and I have mentioned the needed organization of the photograph books by placing them on special shelves; and current guide collection. With the Club's hundredth anniversary only ten books (which do not circulate) were brought up from the base- ment. An account of the bookplate is in Appalachia, XV, 358 (1921). 60 APPALACHIA years away, it would be desirable to have the Club's archives, including scrapbooks, put in order and perhaps indexed. Such jobs will, one hopes, get done through the help of dedicated vol- unteers. But the ideal way of maintaining the library at its pres- ent state is to hire a professional, perhaps a library school student, on a one-day-a-week basis. The Club's Executive Director and the Librarian have had this in mind, and perhaps in time it will be accomplished. For with all the help of the office staff-and they have been most helpful in the ordering of books and the notifying of overdue books-and of the Library Committee, it appears that, unless there is a capable hand regularly at the helm, the library can easily fall back into a disorganized state. And ten or twenty years from now another overhaul will be necessary. As Mr. Stebbins wrote in his three-year report: "A basically excellent collection of books, started ninety years ago, had received much careful administration, but lack of sus- tained attention had inevitably given rise in recent years to a multitude of lapses, inconsistencies and-omissions. The correction of these mistakes and the changing of some routines, has, we believe, made the library more satisfactory to use and has made it easier for Club members to find materials during the many hours in which there is no assistant directly in charge." We invite you to try it and find out. AMCPEOPLE Jessica Gill: Preserving a Landscape of Living History by Lucille Daniel A MC librarian Jessica Gill loves her 1879-1935, archival work for the same reason most materials from the other AMC staffers often cite: it pro- old Hutsmen's vides a way to link enjoyment of the nat- Association, diary ural world with a desire to preserve it. accounts of August In Gill's case, the enjoyment comes Camps, and person- not in climbing peaks or riding rapids, al scrapbooks and but in savoring "the pleasure and the climbing journals. fun of the library." And her strong will (See pages 26-32 for to preserve extends to the AMC's valu- a sampling of these able collection of "living history," the collections.) landscape of words and images for Among the which she has become both guide and work Gill most conservator. prizes is a collection A tour of the library at the AMC's of about 700 pho- Joy Street offices on a Monday or tographs, which she Wednesday, the days Gill is on duty, Jessica Gill, AMC librarian, sorts through treasures in her calls "priceless," by can lift a visitor far above the Boston office, a corner of the fourth floor library at 5 Joy Street. famed Italian pho- traffic in more ways than one. The Gill welcomes contributions and donations to the library tographer Vittorio cathedral ceiling, brick-lined walls, and and is happy to help visitors during library hours, Monday Sella. The pho- huge, weathered fireplace lend a majestic and Wednesday, 8:30 to 5:00. Photo by Emily Muldoon. tographs, taken in quality to the fourth-floor space over- the 1880s and flowing with books, maps, photographs, 1890s, include stun- slides, diaries and artwork, much of had suffered from a range of problems, ning views of the Himalayas, the Alps, which has been contributed by AMC from lack of care to Beacon Hill's dust." the Caucasus Range, and Equatorial members. Still, the future of many of the items Africa. The first set of about 400 was "One of the reasons I love this housed in the library is uncertain. "The purchased by a group of AMC mem- library is that it immortalizes people," library is in danger. Many of these bers and given to the club as a gift in Gill says. She builds a parallel history as books are disintegrating as we speak," 1893. Others have been donated by Sella she labels donations with a brief bit of Gill says, pointing to the Kilbourne himself, who was made an honorary background on each contributor. "It's a Collection, which she estimates to be AMC member in 1891, or purchased by tangible thanks for their contribution to the finest compilation of White later members. AMC history," Gill says. Mountain literature in the world. "If you look at photographs of the When Gill arrived on the scene in "There is [not enough] money for rivers as they were in the 19th century or 1991, with a Masters in Library Science rebinding books or preserving pho- read Chamberlain's account of what a trail and experience at the Harvard Music tographs, SO it goes without saying there looked liked in 1907, it makes you cry," Library and Radcliffe's Schlesinger is no money for new acquisitions." Gill says. "It is a compelling way to show Library, she says she found the AMC's The concern Gill expresses for the the damage we have done to the earth." collection in "total chaos." She set her- collection is due in part to the fear that, self the goals of cleaning books, orga- unless it is preserved and protected like nizing and housing archival material, the world it portrays, lessons and joys G ill developed both her love of his- tory and her reverence for the earth and recording pieces of the collection in of the past will be irretrievably lost. as a child. Her studies of Greek and computer files. Among the treasures are a collection of Latin fostered a love of ancient texts. At "I knew I wanted to care for this collec- glass lantern slides, sets of turn-of-the- a young age, she was drawn to Goddess tion after I first looked it over," says Gill. century photographs by Frederic worship, and has since traveled all over "I'm not a mountain climber, but I recog- Endicott, diaries, maps by E.G. the world pursuing elusive historical nized the value of what was here. Things Chamberlain of AMC trips spanning material about ancient spirituality. She 14 AMC / November 1994 "Someone will come in and say, 'My grandfather hiked this trail in the 1930s and I want to recreate his trip exactly the way he did it." has also studied hieroglyphics in Egypt ple in on some of the delight she and shows the incredible change the organi- to learn about Hatshepsut, a female Fran Belcher discovered reliving past zation has made in peoples' lives," she pharoah, whose mark on history was AMC adventures. These adventures, she says. "The members who wrote these almost totally erased by her successors. says, are part of the organization's heart accounts love the mountains, love the One of the elements of her spirituali- and soul, and it's essential to preserve trails, and this is a record and a way to ty that Gill treasures most is the notion them in whatever form they take, from validate and honor them." that one can change one's consciousness old diaries and maps to books. - Lucille Daniel, a Boston at will, an idea, she says that American "It's important for the AMC to keep Chapter member, is editor of culture has lost. "American culture personal archival material because it the Chelmsford Independent. wants to separate you from your experi- ence by packaging it with as much plas- tic as possible," she says. "We're capable of experiencing on our own. When you go to the mountains or to the ocean, you can feel your consciousness chang- ing. But our culture doesn't trust us to have our own experiences, our own responses to things. They're always try- ing to tell us how to respond." Gill sees the history housed in the AMC archives as an antidote to this men- tality. "The accounts in the archives aren't prepackaged," Gill says. "They entice you to go outdoors and have your own experi- For Your Feet ence." That belief in a direct experience with the natural world is what drew Gill to the AMC and what fuels her passion When the road ends, you'll want Redfeathers. for the collection she now oversees. The original high-performance, go-anywhere shoes. A mong the people who visit the library are students, scholars, and Advanced designs and aerospace materials, hand-made writers, including Guy and Laura Waterman, whose most recent book, for durability, strength and stability. Strap 'em on and take off. Forest and Crag, relied heavily on the AMC's archives. "There are also people who love to REDFEATHER study old trail maps. Someone will come in and say, 'My grandfather Shift Into High This Winter hiked this trail in the 1930s and I want 800-525-0081 to recreate his trip exactly the way he did it." But Gill's favorite visitor to the library was the AMC's first executive director and White Mountain historian Fran Belcher, whose death last summer she still mourns. "Fran was a living repository of AMC history," Gill says. "He would come in every week and help me identify materials, and he left us a large collection of his records of the AMC. Fran used to say to me, 'People don't have as much fun as they used to,' and after studying SO many of the old diaries, I would have to agree with him." One of the contributions Gill hopes to make as AMC librarian is to let peo- AMC Outdoors / November 1994 ( amctopi.wea, INFORMATION FROM THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB & BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB Appalachia Journal Index - up to 1945 (From first visit) "Our Seacoast National Park" by G.B. Dorr XV p. 174 - 182 "Dog (St. Sauveur) Mountain by the East Face" by G.L. Stebbins xviii p. 168 - 169 "Rock Climbing on MDI" by L.W. Pollock xviii p. 365 - 371 "MDI Champlain (Newport) Mountain, Rt. No. 4" by Pollock xix p. 299 - 300 "Beech Cliff, Rt. No. 4" by Pollock xix p. 300 - 301 "MDI's Mountain Railway" by F.H. Burt xxiv p. 435 - 440 Acadia Mountain, Robinson, ME xviii p. 367 "Recovery of the Old Bridle Path on MDI" by P.R. Jenks xviii p. 359 - 365 "The Greenleaf Hut on MDI" by Dean Peabody, Jr xviii p. 100 - 101 Appalachia Journal Index - 1946 - 1971 (From second visit) "New England Trail Conference, Annual Meeting, 1947" June 1947, Mag #103 p. 419 SEE COPY "Twenty Five Years of Echo Lake Camp" by Irving Meredith June 1947, Mag # 103 p. 320 "New England Forest Fires" June 1948, Mag #105 p. 110 "Echo Lake Camp - 1953, The Diary of a Section Leader" by Carl O. Chauncey Dec. 15, 1953, Mag # 117 p. 479 Rock Climbing Champlain Mountain p. 413 Jordan Bubbles, South Bubble p. 414 Jordan Bubbles, South Bubble p. 414 June 15, 1955, Mag # 119 "MDI in October (Echo Lake Camp)" June 1955, Mag # 119 p. 603 "The Seven 1000 Club of Echo Lake Camp" by Bud and Herol Harrington Dec. 19, 1959, Mag # 129 p. 540 - 541 SEE COPY supp Cocte) Black Photograph Book - Box 2, Book 2, Excursions AMC - June 25 - July 6 1915 15th Field Meeting, Seaside Inn, Seal Harbor Jordan Pond Jordan Mt Ocean Drive Great Head Bates Memorial tablet on Cadillac Trail Balance Rock on South Bubble Seal Harbor Seaside Trail Somes Sound Long Pond Bar Harbor (All photographs were looked through during the first visit, I made photocopies of ones pertaining to trails and gave to you, the rest were of views, towns, etc.) BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Prints Department - old photos/postcards They had many postcards of Mount Desert Island and many photographs of Maine and a few photographs of MDI. I made copies of the old photographs and postcards that pertained to trails or significant destinations of the trails. Underneath each photocopy I wrote what was on the back of the photograph or postcard. I have also included the instructions for ordering reproductions and a list of fees for using the material. Aaron Schmidt, who I worked with and who you should contact if you have questions, said there most likely would not be a fee for using the pictures. Newspapers - obituaries of Rand, Jaques, and Bates According to the "Index to Obituary Notices in the Boston Transcript," the obituaries of Rand, Jaques, and Bates were not in the Boston papers. (I find this hard to believe!!) The lady in the Newspaper area said if their names were not in the index, they didn't have their obituaries. Apparently BPL only has those obituaries for the Boston and Mass. area. Mount Desert Island (ME) (BPL has these books) "Mount Desert, on the Coast of Maine" by Clara Barnes Martin 1867 Research Library 4435.146 "The hand-book of Mount Desert Island" by B.F. DeCosta 1880 Rare Books 4435.249 "Scenes in the Isle of Mount Desert" by B.F. DeCosta 1871 Research Library 4435.223 "Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island" by William Berry Lapham 1886 Research Library 4435.109 1887 Research Library 4435.135 1888 Research Library 4435.172 SEE COPIES OF PICTURES Guidebooks (BPL has these books) "AMC Trail Guide to Mount Desert" 1976 Research GV199.42.M22M683 "Discovery Acadia NP" by Albert C. D'Amato 1985 Research F27.M9017 "AMC Guide to Mount Desert" 1933 Research GV199.42.M22M683 Acadia NP Guidebooks (BPL has these books) "Field guide to Acadia National Park" by Russell D. Butcher 1977 Research F27.M9B86 "Acadia National Park: Maine's Intimate Parkland" by Alan Nyiri 1986 Research F27.M9N94 photos and text General Card Catalog (BPL has these books) "Mount Desert, the Most Beautiful Island in the World" photos by Sargent F. Collier 1952 F27.M9C64 "Land of Enchantment; the Penobscot Bay-Mount Desert region of Maine" photos and text by Dan Concord 1945 F27.P37H3 "The Story of MDI" by Samuel Eliot Morison 1960 F27.M9M6 Page 1 of 1 'Ronald Epp From: To: Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: Re:George Dorr & Echo Lake Camp I will see what I can sleuth out. Please do visit, give me a couple days notice SO I can pull material together for you on Dorr and the history of Echo Lake. I am usually here on Tuesdays and Thursdays but can juggle my schedule with enough notice, Regards Martha 5/29/2003 Message Page 1 of 1 Epp, Ronald From: Epp, Ronald Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:49 PM To: 'mmoore@amcinfo.org'; Epp, Ronald Dear Martha, It has been more than a year since we exchanged e-mails and later encountered one another at the MacDowell Colony. I've been continuing my research on Acadia National Park founder George B. Dorr and have uncovered some textual and image documentation that you may wish to include in the AMC archives since it relates to the founding of the Echo Lake camps. Let me know if you are interested and I'll post copies to you. Withg best wishes, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Director of Shapiro Library Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH 03106 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 603-645-9685 fax 5/14/2004 Epp, Ronald From: Martha Moore [mmoore@outdoors.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 9:48 AM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: I would love to have it, thanks so much for thinking of me. MacDowell is gearing up for Medal Day once again - hard to believe a year has passed so quickly. I wish I could say I have made tremondous progress here on this collection but it is very slow going. The good news is all the reference requests that keep me so busy also connect me with good folks such as yourself. I always said serendipity is the best tool a librarian has! Regards Martha On 5/14/2004 12:48 PM, Epp, Ronald wrote: > Dear Martha, > > It has been more than a year since we exchanged e-mails and later > encountered one another at the MacDowell Colony. > > I've been continuing my research on Acadia National Park founder > George > B. Dorr and have uncovered some textual and image documentation that you > may wish to include in the AMC archives since it relates to the founding > of the Echo Lake camps. > > Let me know if you are interested and I'll post copies to you. > > Withg best wishes, > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University > Manchester, NH 03106 > > > > 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 > 603-645-9685 fax > > > > 1 Verizon Yahoo! Mail-eppster2@verizon.net Page 1 of 5 Verizon Yahoo! Mail Verizon Central Yahoo! Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon Mail Home Tutorials Help [Sign Out, Member Center verizon MAIL Mail Addresses Calendar Notepad Mail For Mobile - Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Previous Next I Back to Messages Folders [Add Edit] Inbox (17) Delete Reply Forward Spam Move Draft This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread Sent Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:52:14 -0400 Bulk (1) [Empty] From: "AMC Library" Add to Address Book Add Mo Trash [Empty] Subject: Re: Acadia National Park's Echo Camp My Folders [Hide] To: "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Eliz messages Member Information Hi Ron, Ron Archives (18) I think you are correct in your guess that Dorr was not a mem far as I can tell. I looked him up in both the old, bound copies Search Shortcuts registers, and in the file of original membership cards. He My Photos appear in either. Seems he was on our side, but never got ar to/had My Attachments an interest in joining. Great photo from Greylock, by the way! I spent my first summ for AMC up at Bascom Lodge. What a beautiful area! -Becky Fullerton ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP wrote: > Dear Becky, > > Several days ago I received the photocopy of the Echo Lake > Thank you. > I'll put a check in the mail this afternoon. > > I wonder whether you have access to membership lists as far the > first three decades of the 20th century. In my research int of > George B. Dorr I have conflicting information about his mem > the AMC and hope that the AMC library may be able to settle way > or the other. Given what I know I strongly suspect that he > member even though he championed the use of Acadia National the > AMC and its use of Echo Lake. > http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=598_2662822_67025_2145_3133_.. 4/27/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail-eppster2@verizon.net - Page 2 of 5 > Have a fine weekend. > > Ron Epp > > P.S. By the way, I was an AMC member from the mid-1980's un year > when retirement from academic library administration forced > reconsider the expenses associated with my affiliations. If a > copy of Roger L. Moore's AMC publication called "Organizing > Volunteers," 2nd edition (1992), I'm the third person (with glasses) > from the left on the cover photo taken with the trail crew Greylock. > > */AMC Library /* wrote: > > Hi Ron, > > I do have the Echo Lake book. It would be no trouble to > photocopy > and mail it out to you today. There is a $5 copying and fee, 5 Joy St. , Boston > which can be sent to the AMC Library, 02108 > > I wasn't aware of Chamberlain speaking out about the ca > suspicions of segregation. His portrait is here in the and > since he moved up here from his former hanging spot in I've > been finding out more and more little bits about him ev in a > while. I'll have to dig up those articles. Curios chara of > them. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with! -Becky Fullerton AMC Librarian > > Martha Moore wrote: > > > > Hi Ron, > > > > Good to hear from you and yes I remember meeting you MacDowell. I > > need to get back up there and see what is going on W new > > library. I'm only at the AMC off and on - working on identifying all > > their maps and at some point I hope to have an exhib them > - you > > might be interested in that?? Becky Fullerton is the http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=598_2662822_67025_2145_3133_... 4/27/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail -eppster2@verizon.net - Page 3 of 5 j AMC > > Archivist SO working with her would get you an answe more > quickly. > > She's recently unearthed a log of material on the va camps and > > lodges SO this material may indeed be there. So I wi you into > > her very capable hands. Perhaps I will see you on Ma Day > this year? > Good luck with your book > > Martha > > > > > > > > * From: * ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP [mailto:eppster2@verizon.net] > *Sent: * Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:30 PM > *To: immoore@outdoors.org > *Subject: * Ron Epp & Acadia National Park T 's Echo Ca > > > > > Dear Martha, > > > > You'll recall our meeting at the McDowell Colony sev ago, I > hope, and our emails stretching back to 2004. > > > > > > > Right now I'm trying to track down a short work edit P. > > Mitchell titled // Echoes of Echo: Memories of Echo > AMC, MDI. > > // which I believe was published by the AMC in 1989. the > title > > page and introduction (by Herb Sorgen) in which ther explicit > > reference to Park Superintendent Dorr, the subject O > biography that > > I am now in the throws of writing. Do you have a cop work > is not > > listed in OCLC SO I hope that you have a copy that I to Joy > Street and examine--or if it is brief I can reimburs copying > and handling. > > > > > > http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=598_2662822_67025_2145_3133_.4/27/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail-eppster2@verizon.net Page 4 of 5 > > I assume that you--like e--have the news clippings > photographs (by > > Herbert Wendell Gleason & George King) from the 1922 of the > > camp as well as the Echo Lake controversy created by > historian > Allen Chamberlain in 1922 when he wrote to the Actin of the > National Park Service and spoke (erroneously) about efforts to > > to segregate the rag muffin AMC members from the "hi > residential > > section of the island. " An interesting historical fo which > might > interest your // Outdoors // readers. > > > > Wishing you the very best. > > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > > > > > P.S. I retired from library administration last Febr > bit later > > from volunteering at the MacDowell Colony. I'm now volunteering in > > Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Libra I'm > working > > on manuscript finding aids. > > > > > > Ron Epp 47 Pond View Drive > > > Merrimack , NH 03054 > (603) 424-6149 > eppster2@verizon.net > begin: vcard fn: :Becky Fullerton n:Fullerton; Becky adr;dom:; ; 5 Joy Street;Boston;MA;02108 email;internet : amclibrary@outdoors.org title:AM Librarian > tel;work:617-523-0655: x329 > url:http://www.outdoors.org > version:2.1 http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=598_2662822_67025_2145_3133_. 4/27/2007 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Ronald Epp" To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: George Dorr & Echo Lake Camp Dear Martha, Thank you for agreeing to address this issue. I'll be patient and see what you are able to uncover. By the way I did uncover newspaper coverage (Kennebec Journal of Augusta) of a climb of Katahdin by Dorr and then Maine Governor Brewster and his party in early July 1925. They did traverse portions of the AT and there was a Pathe News photographer who took film of this event but to date I've not been able to unvover any of it. Dorr was a prolific writer who may indeed have corresponded with AMC headquarters in the 1915-1940 timeframe about varied conservation matters. IL I:do have related correspondance from the National Archives, the ANP Archives, and even the Rockefeller Archive Center relative to the acquisition and development of the AMC Echo Lake camp on MDI. Perhaps we could compare or exchange our respective documentation. I'd have to check my records, but the land that the AMC purchased might have been a property of Mr. Dorr. If this archival work fascinates you as well perhaps we could collaborate and submit a piece on this bit of historical detective work on the origins of the Echo Lake Camp to the editor of Outdoors? I'll be in Boston later this summer, perhaps I could visit the library once again. It has been quite a few years since my last visit. Looking forward to hearing from you. Ronald Epp Original Message From: To: Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:54 AM Subject: George Dorr Ronald, I am the archivist/librarian for the AMC. I can do some research into George and send you what I am able to find. I won't get to this request for a couple of weeks however, I hope that is ok. Regards Martha 5/29/2003 Untitled Document Page 1 of 1 JANE ROY ROWN HOME ABOUT WRITER EDITOR CONTACT ABOUT JANE ROY BROWN WRITING AND EDITING I am a writer, editor, and landscape historian in Massachusetts. My writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Bostonia, The Christian Science Monitor, Garden Design, Grist, Harvard Magazine, Landscape Architecture, Maine Times, Preservation, Vermont Life, and other publications. Since 2001 I have published more than 70 stories in the Boston Globe Travel section alone. I edited the 2003 Journal of the New England Garden History Society and held various editorial positions at AMC Outdoors, the member magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club, from 1995 to 2004. The magazine won several national awards during this period, among them a 2004 Gold Award from the Society of National Association Publishers for one of my editor's notes. I co-authored a trade book, Insider's Guide to Getting into Print for A/E/P & Environmental Consulting Firms (Natick, Mass.: Mark Zweig & Associates, 1994). An essay published in The Christian Science Monitor was included in a best-of anthology, The Home Forum Reader, in 1989. (The two latter projects and other writing between 1976 and 1998 appeared under my former name, Jane Brown Bambery.) EDUCATION I graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelors degree in comparative religion in 1975 and became a full-time professional writer in 1980, specializing in business-to-business scriptwriting and executive speeches for Fortune 500 corporations. With two partners, I established a small public relations firm, The IDPR Group, in 1990. I left the business in 1994 to write and edit for publications. Entering Radcliffe Seminars (now the Landscape Institute at Arnold Arboretum) as a part-time student in 1992, I studied landscape-design history, completing the certificate program in 2001. As my final project, I documented Skylands, the private landscape in Seal Harbor, Maine, designed by Jens Jensen for Edsel and Eleanor Ford in 1926. I have lectured to garden clubs throughout Massachusetts on this topic. CURRENT PROJECTS I now work part-time as director of educational outreach at the Library of American Landscape History, a not-for-profit publishing organization in Amherst, Massachusetts, while continuing to write and edit articles for general readers and landscape architects, chiefly on travel and landscape. My husband, photographer and painter Bill Regan, often photographs for my articles. Jane Jane Roy Brown Copyright © 2007 by Jane Roy Brown. All Rights Reserved. Site Design by Stone Face Group http://www.regan-brown.com/brownindex.html 4/8/2009 Untitled Document Page 1 of 1 JANE ROY ROWN HOME ABOUT WRITER EDITOR CONTACT EDITOR I have worked as a magazine editor since 1995, when I joined the four-person editorial staff of AMC Outdoors, the magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club. AMC is a Northeast-regional nonprofit recreation and conservation organization with more than 90,000 members. Published 10 times a year, AMC Outdoors averages 80 pages per issue. I was responsible for creating a story list, assigning stories and illustrations to freelancers, acquiring photography, line editing stories in my departments, and writing news stories. When my colleague Madeleine Eno and I served as co-editors (1999-2003), the magazine garnered several national awards, including a 2000 Clarion Award from Women in Communications for Best Overall Internal Magazine. In 2000, I cut back to part-time at AMC Outdoors to finish my studies in landscape history. Under the mentorship of editor Judith B. Tankard, I served as deputy editor of the 2002 Journal of the New England Garden History Society, an annual scholarly publication. I went on to edit the 2003 Journal, which involved issuing a call for papers, assembling a group of peer reviewers to read article proposals, assigning articles, reading and disseminating draft articles to peer reviewers, assigning book reviews, working with authors during revisions, and shepherding all text and art through final production. Since June 2004, I have pursued freelance editing as well as writing. Among other projects, I have edited several feature-length articles for Landscape Architecture, the magazine of record for the American Society of Landscape Architects. Copyright © 2007 by Jane Roy Brown. All Rights Reserved. http://www.regan-brown.com/brownEditor.html 4/8/2009 Page 1 of 2 RE: Dorr chapters From "Robin Karson" To