New England Sees it Through, And, Mist on the Mirror

by Carroll, Gladys Hasty

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Old Berwick Historical Society. Good. 1969. Softcover. 27 pages, frontispiece (portrait) , illustrations, pictorial wrappers, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From her obituary on the Bates College website: "An author from South Berwick who captured a fading way of life among Maine's rural farm communities at the turn of the century, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Litt. D. '45, wrote 26 books of fiction and nonfiction, including short stories and children's books. She was best known for her first novel, As the Earth Turns, which was a Book-of-the-Month selection, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and later a feature-length movie. For many summers, the story was reenacted at the family farm in Dunnybrook, a tiny hamlet in South Berwick. The Portland Press Herald noted that As the Earth Turns "is a highly regarded evocation of an era that is rapidly fading from living memory. The book captured rural Maine life at a time when the lure of cities was pulling young people away from farms and immigrants were moving into the state. At the heart of the work lies a dignity and resilience in the face of change that...she always defended as an accurate portrayal of a life she had seen and lived. " Mrs. Carroll spent her childhood and much of her adult life in the farmhouse her grandfather built during the Civil War in Dunnybrook. Like many rural Mainers of her generation, she left the farm to pursue an education and career. She was a 1921 graduate of Berwick Academy and majored in English at Bates and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and later to The Bates Key. The day after the 1925 Commencement, she married Herbert A. Carroll '23 at the Bates Chapel. She earned her master's from the Univ. Of New Hampshire in 1943, was on the Breadloaf staff, and took courses at Harvard, Columbia, and the Univ. Of Chicago. " M31; Ex-Library; 27 pages .

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