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(The Bird Book by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.
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The Bird Book by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.
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(Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) was an American...)
Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm (1865–1946) was an American writer, ornithologist and folklorist.
In "The Pendebscot Man" Fannie Hardy Eckstorm has given us a collection of stories of the Maine river men. With a loyal hand she has chronicled some of the deeds which exalted to heroism those lives of toil and hardship. Without idealization she has recorded them, but in the honest colors of reality; and these tales assume for us a new significance because their characters actually lived and breathed, and because these deeds of truest courage were performed without a thought of their heroism, without a suspicion that they were to be set forth in printed page.
The author knows well of what she writes, and her work is endowed with finest sympathy, and the full understanding of long familiarity. Her stories have that revealing, spiritual quality, so that the reader sees not only the deed, but the soul of the man who does it. The inner and the outer life are both made manifest.
CONTENTS
I. Lugging Boat On Sowadnehunk
II. The Grim Tale Of Larry Connors
III. Hymns Before Battle
IV. The Death Of Thoreau's Guide
V. The Gray Rock Of Abol
VI. A Clump Of Posies
VII. Working Nights
VIII. The Naughty Pride Of Black Sebat And Others
IX. Rescue
X. "joyfully"
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Fannie Hardy Eckstorm was an American author, ornithologist and folklorist. Her extensive personal knowledge of her native state of Maine secured her place as one of the foremost authorities on the history, wildlife, cultures, and lore of the region.
Background
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm was born in Brewer, Maine, United States on June 18, 1865. She was the eldest of six children born to Manly Hardy and Emeline Freeman (Wheeler) Hardy. Ancestors on both sides were from old Penobscot River families. Benjamin Wheeler, her mother's ancestor, was the first settler of Hampden, Maine; her paternal grandparents moved from New Hampshire to Maine in 1811, and eventually settled in Brewer.
Manly Hardy, who became the largest fur trader in Maine, had a close relationship with the Indians and became an authority and writer on Maine birds and mammals.
Education
As her father's close companion Fannie learned the local Indian dialects early in her life and often accompanied him on trips to purchase furs.
She attended high school in Bangor and later Abbott Academy in Andover, Massachussets before entering Smith College in 1885.
Career
The summer after her graduation, she returned to Maine, where she traveled with her father on the first of many memorable canoe trips through the wilderness. In Brewer she served from 1889-1891 as one of the first women superintendents of schools in Maine. During this period she began writing articles on her work.
In 1891 her father enlisted her services in a crusade to fight for fish and game protection laws to control out-of-state hunters. She wrote two series of articles as a strong defender of Maine in what she conceived to be a battle with outside interests. After completing her superintendency, she returned to Massachusetts as a reader of scientific manuscripts for the publishing firm of D. C. Heath in Boston.
She produced two major books on birds in Brewer. The Bird Book (1901), a children's text, and The Woodpeckers (1901). The Penobscot Man celebrated the strong virtues of river drivers and woodsmen, to attack, by extension, the paper mills then taking over Maine's forests and rivers. Another lumbering book, a biography, followed, David Libbey: Penobscot Woodsman and River Driver (1907). A strong advocate of the local Indians, she wrote major articles based on surviving Indian legends to correct earlier records by whites. A major essay, "Thoreau's 'Maine Woods, ' " published in Atlantic Monthly criticized Thoreau's skill as a scientific observer and ended in praising his poetic feeling for the woods.
In the 1920's she was senior author of two books collecting and analyzing folk songs: Minstrelsy of Maine: Folk Songs and Ballads of the Woods and Coast (1927) was written with Mary Winslow Smyth, and British Ballads from Maine: The Development of Popular Songs, with Text and Airs (1929), with Mary Winslow Smyth and Phillips Barry. Eckstorm's interest then turned to Indian philology, history, and handicrafts, first in The Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine (1932). New and distinguished contributions in Indian Place-names of the Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast (1941) established her as the leading authority on the Penobscot Indians. In this she also stated her belief (not held by her father or grandfather) in clairvoyance among the shamans. She memorialized her Indian acquaintances in her last book, Old John Neptune and Other Maine Indian Shamans (1945).
She died of heart failure in her eighty-second year and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Brewer.
Achievements
Her work in ornithology, Northeast Indian philology, and Maine history continues to be a basic source for researchers. Her collections, annotations, and analysis of folk songs remain standard. Eckstorm's books are widely read and her views still greatly influence the written history of the state of Maine.
In 1893, Eckstorm married Reverend Jacob A. Eckstorm of Chicago, and in that same year they moved to Eastport, Maine. The couple had two children, and later moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where Jacob Eckstorm died in 1899. Following her husband's death, Eckstorm took her children and moved back to Brewer.
Father:
Manly Hardy
Mother:
Emeline Freeman (Wheeler) Hardy
Spouse:
Rev. Jacob A. Eckstorm
Grandfather:
Jonathan Hardy
fur trader with business interests in lumbering, land, and shipping, befriended the local Penobscot Indians and learned their language
