Education
She graduated from Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1900 and the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School, Washington, District of Columbia
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Genevieve Hutchinson
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She published several volumes including "Memory and other Poems" (1947) and "Substance" (1953). Her poem “To an Engraving of the Charter Oak” is in the collection of the Society of the Founders of Hartford, Connecticut State Library."
Hutchinson was born in Brooklyn, New New York as a Deaconess of the Methodist Church in 1904. Through all this she carried a remarkable resilience which she shares in her poetry.
Foreign 53 years starting in 1921, she was a popular hostess to Appalachian Trail hikers.
Her home in Washington, Massachusetts, was a half mile from the Appalachian Trail"s October Mountain Shelter. Her hospitality is noted and a picture included in the National Geographic Society volume "The Appalachian Trail". and again in David Emblidge"s The Appalachian Trail Reader.
Thomas McKone gives a first-person account of two days spent with her in Great Stories of Hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Membership
A member of the Springfield (Master of Arts) Poetry Society, she was Advisory Editor of their 1931 volume "Homespun, A Book of Verse".
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