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Peyton, John Lawrence was born on May 15, 1907 in Proctor, Minnesota, United States. Son of Hamilton H. and Olive (Lewis) Peyton.
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This book is a celebration of one of the most widespread, beautiful, useful, and inspiring of trees - the birch, a group of species that occur across the middle and high latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The author provides an overview of birch ecology and then shifts his focus to the economic, social and spiritual roles of the birch among peoples of North America, Europe, and Asia. The book concludes with a discussion of the birch in art and literature, and the ancient alliance between people and trees. The Birch is an accessible, friendly book containing 17 line drawings by the author-artist.
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John Peyton uses his marvelous skills as storyteller and artist to give children a glimpse of Ojibway life in the northwoods during the early 20th century. In this fully illustrated story, a young boy and his family leave the hunger and isolation of their winter camp and make their way across the still snow-covered land and frozen streams, hoping to join the rest of their people at the sugarbush. Theirs is a race against the thawing ice, beneath which lie spirits, some of which are waiting to cut off the family from the bounty of spring, while others seek to ensure their safe journey. Vividly portrayed are not only the hardships endured by these Native Americans, but also their continual courage, perseverance, and joyousness.
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John, Peyton, on octogenarian living in Proctor, Minnesota, is well-known throughout the western Great Lakes region as a banker, artist, and award-winning author. Peyton's memoirs, which span most of the twentieth century, begin with his early life in northern Minnesota when Duluth was still a frontier town. He recalls his adventures with the northern Ojibway Indians and time spent hunting and fishing on the rivers of the Northwoods. He describes his years at prep school in New Hampshire, his years at Yale, and banking during the Depression in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Many other experiences of his life in Minnesota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Arizona -- always told in a gentle, warm and perceptive manner -- also find their way into these memoirs. Peyton's own paintings and illustrations further enrich the description of his life.
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(This novel chronicles one year in the life of northwoods ...)
This novel chronicles one year in the life of northwoods Native Americans in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Enriched by the author's first hand knowledge, learned while travelling among the Ojibway early in the 20th century, this fictionalised account is a valuable ethnological record incorporating legends and traditional lifeways of the northern Ojibway Indians. The plot centres around a young Ojibway man coming of age in a demanding physical, hence social, environment who, late in the year of this story, becomes badly scarred during a fight with a bear. Years late, Old Mosh, with the disfigured face and mauled leg, served as wilderness guide to the judge, the engineer, the banker, and the banker's teen-aged son -- John Peyton.
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Peyton, John Lawrence was born on May 15, 1907 in Proctor, Minnesota, United States. Son of Hamilton H. and Olive (Lewis) Peyton.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1930; student, Art Students' League, New York City, 1940-1941.
Editor, Magazine Ducks & Geese, Duluth, Minnesota, 1950-1958; art teacher, Lake Superior Gallery, Duluth, 1970-1983. Art teacher various workshops. Art show judge various shows.
(This book is a celebration of one of the most widespread,...)
(John, Peyton, on octogenarian living in Proctor, Minnesot...)
(John Peyton uses his marvelous skills as storyteller and ...)
(This novel chronicles one year in the life of northwoods ...)
Director Stop the Freeway, Duluth, 1973-1983, Friends of the Wilderness, Minneapolis, 1988-1997.
Married Fay McKenzie, June 30, 1930. Children: Hamilton McKenzie, Beryl Peyton Schroeder.