Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house Henry Ford has set up in Greenfield Village and labeled the Foster homestead is a very stupid and quite inexcusable fraud...
...shall appreciate it very much if you will tell me who it was in Greenfield Village that told the reporter for TIME Magazine that Stephen Foster once lived in the "little white house with green shutters," past which Governor Landon was driven on Oct. 13. I was assured by a Greenfield Village executive last August that they intended to stop calling it the Foster homestead, and the Foster birthplace, and would henceforth represent the house merely as a Stephen Foster Memorial. It is of the utmost importance to me to know whether the building is still being falsely labeled with...
...EVELYN FOSTER MORNEWECK...
According to Composer Foster's Biographer John Tasker Howard (Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour), the dwelling at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village was not built when Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness...
...enjoyed such sports but because he was sent there without sufficient money and because there were no letters from Elmira. Meanwhile Elmira has married, having received no letters from him, although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom any shock is likely to kill because her arteries are "as thin as tissue paper." When Poe is offered a magazine...