About Tilbury House
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Julia A. Hunter
Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
Foreword by Sandy Ives
Published with the Maine State Museum
Paperback, $25
ISBN 0-88448-220-0
8 1/2 x 10 3/8, 224 pages, B&W Photos
Biography/Maine/Women's History
MAINE BOOKS:
Backyard Maine: Essays by Edgar Allen Beem—NewCranberry, The: Hard Work and Holiday Sauce—New
From Indian Island to Omaha Beach: Charles Shay, Penobscot Indian War Hero—New
Land in Between, The: The Upper Saint John Valley, Prehistory to World War I—New
Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships—New
Maine in the World: Stories from Some of Those from Here Who Went Away —New
New Mainers: Portraits of our Immigrant Neighbors—New
A1 Diner
America’s Kitchens
Antiqueman's Diary
Camera's Coast, The
Catboat Era, The
Changing Maine
Coastal Companion
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
Continental Liar from the State of Maine
Day's Work, A (Vol. I)
Day's Work, A (Vol. II)
Doryman's Day, A
Down on the Island, Up on the Main
Downeast: A Maritime History of Maine
Eminent Mainers
Fly Rod Crosby
In the Shadow of the Eagle
Interrupted Forest, The
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. I
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. IV
Journalism Matters
Just One More Thing, Doc
Letters from Sea
Life Between the Tides
Little Pine to King Spruce
Maine Hamlet, A
Maine Made Guns & Their Makers
Maine's Visible Black History
North by Northeast
Not Your Average Bear
Old Town Canoe, The
On Wilderness
One Man's Meat
Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding
Place on Water, A
Rangeley and Its Region, The
Red right Returning
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott
Remarkable Americans
Same Great Struggle, The
Sea Struck
Sharing the Ocean
Shipyard in Maine, A
Snow Squall
That Yankee Cat
Turnaround
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past
Upriver Passamaquoddy, An
Voyage of Archangell, The
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
While You're Here, Doc
Wilderness Partners
Wood and Canvas Canoe, The
Worthy of the Sea
Miss Crosby was an articulate writer herself, and her column, "Fly Rod's Note Book," was syndicated throughout the eastern United States. The Maine Central Railroad employed her to travel to expositions and fairs, where in her outdoor dress of dark green doeskin with a scandalously short skirt, she stood in front of a small log camp decorated with the paraphernalia and trophies of the sporting life, spoke with passersby about the delights of Maine, and showed them her scrapbook of photographs—enticing them to travel the rails to the woods.
Most of the photographs in her album were taken by E. R. Starbird, a commercial photographer specializing in Maine woods views, and many of those images are reproduced in this biography, which also contains an essay on Starbird's work by Earle Shettleworth. Excerpts from Fly Rod's writings add to this fascinating picture of the Maine woods at the turn of the century and provide further insight on the unusual life of this remarkable woman.
Julia Hunter is the registrar and curator of textiles of the Maine State Museum; Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., is the director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
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