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Jamie Ferguson fled Scotland when the Stuart cause brought disaster on its adherents. He joined an uncle in Suncook in the Province of New Hampshire, learned woodcraft under old Toby, an Indian. Successful in the lumber trade, he married Dorcas Drew, lived to regret it. After he joined the Rangers of his friend, Captain Robert Rogers, Jamie fought in campaigns around Lake Champlain and Ticonderoga, while Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter...
...fact that the art of living men received little or no institutional support in Manhattan. In the late spring of 1929 they and one or two other liberal ladies laid plans for a new museum. To head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip...
...role suits the Squire of Hyde Park better than that of well-born man-of-the-world hobnobbing with distinguished visitors. He drove down to the Poughkeepsie lumber yard where the Potomac docks when it is there, got out of his car to handshake handsome Crown Prince Olav & Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Mr. Roosevelt, though fluent in French, speaks no Scandinavian tongues, but he did not need to. The royal Norwegians speak Mayfair English...
Holbrook has led a varied life ranging from lumber-jacking in Winnipeg to writing and reporting. His book, "Holy Old Mackinaw" has run through five editions and received extensive praise from Carl Van Doren, historian...
...Swensson's sacred musical was such a success that it went on tour, in lumber wagons along dusty Kansas roads, to the neighboring towns of Salemsburg, Salina and New Gottland. Next year they did it again. The chorus grew, acquired a permanent orchestra and conductor, hired famous soloists like Lillian Nordica, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Olive Fremstad. Lindsborg's annual Messiah became the biggest musical event in Kansas...