Background
Muir, Emily Lansingh was born on February 10, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Van Rensselaer and Marian L. (Minor) Lansingh.
(From the dust jacket: "This novel of Maine life glows wit...)
From the dust jacket: "This novel of Maine life glows with a warm and joyous quality--a sense of life lived fully, close to the earth and sea. Its pages are filled with the authentic color of farming and fishing, with good salty stories, with sensuous evocation of all the varied beauty of rich farmland and shimmering bay. It is the story of a summer, passing with almost unbroken tranquility, from the early blooming of the orchards to the last brisk days that follow the harvest--the summer days when young Nate explores the exciting world of field and woodland, and the islands off the coast. When Nate is through school, he is free to go lobster hauling, haying and mowing, hake fishing, berry picking and camping on the islands. Nate's family share a hardy, active, deeply satisfying life on two hundred acres that slope down to the rugged coast. There is Grandpa whose faith in the Lord is absolute; and Ma whose boiled dinners, corned hake and plum duff are legendary. There is Uncle Orin who loves the outdoors as Nate does; Uncle Sime, a teller of fabulous tales; and Uncle Win who has "green fingers" and who likes to stop and talk to everyone he meets. There are many other simple, likeable characters; but first of all, it is Nate's story, told with tender insight into a boy's capacity for wonder, his feeling of kinship with all living things." "Emily Muir is familiar with the scene and people of "Small Potatoes" from the twenty summers which she has spent in Maine. She and her husband have a studio home, which they built themselves with the help of their Maine neighbors, on Deer Isle, near Stonington. There, on the shores of Penobscot Bay, she wrote and designed the decorations for "Small Potatoes," a novel with an authentic background of farming and fishing on the Maine coast. ....."
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Muir, Emily Lansingh was born on February 10, 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Van Rensselaer and Marian L. (Minor) Lansingh.
Graduated from the high school, Cleveland Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Maine.
Artist, Stonington, Maine, from 1930. Member National Committee Fine Arts, 1955-1959. Lecturer Association American Colleges.
Artist in residence.
(From the dust jacket: "This novel of Maine life glows wit...)
Member Stonington School Board, Conservation Committee, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Nature Conservancy, Washington and Maine.