Tracy Log Book: A Month in Summer ed. Anne Mazlish

Description: "The Tracy Diary offers us the unique opportunity to accompany twenty-seven 19th century travelers. comprised of several families, on an adventure of a lifetime, exploring Mount Desert Island in August of 1855. This first recorded group of summer visitors was a distinguished company, both professionally and socially, and hailed from New York and Boston."In addition to Charles Tracy, a prominent New York lawyer, whose descendants through his daughter, Frances, and son-in-law, J. Pierpont Morgan, continue to summer on the Island, the travelling party also included Frederic Edwin Church, a leading Hudson River School artist, and his friend, Theodore Winthrop, who died gallantly in the opening battle of the Civil War and then became posthumously famous as a novelist, and the Rev. John Seeley Stone, a leading Episcopal orator in his day and the first dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, and his wife, Mary Kent Stone, the daughter of the noted scholar/jurist, Chancellor James Kent."For the first time since that trip, more than 140 years ago, Church's playful sketches have been reunited with the unique first hand account penned by Tracy. "A thousand good things come in every day...." Tracy's words strike a familiar chord in the memory of all who return again and again to the beauty and variety of Mount Desert Island." - from back cover [E5]

Price: 12 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-02-14T02:59:17.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD