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puttering about in an aimless fashion that was not at all
but went off to her garden and began puttering about in an aimless fashion that was not at all like her usual brisk efficiency. When supper was ready she sat staring into space and hardly touched a morsel of food, although Berry had prepared everything with more than...
ex Rose McLaughlin Sackett. Three Tunes for a Flute, illustrations by Richard Bennett (New York, Macmillan, 1938) : 225
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brief biographical note about, and two-page essay by Rose McLaughlin Sackett, in
Carmen Nelson Richards and Genevieve Rose Breen, Minnesota Writes : A collection of autobiographical stories by Minnesota prose writers (Minneapolis, The Lund Press, 1945) : 179-181
borrowable at archive.org : link
in which —
Thanks to this weakness of mine in mistaking the means for the end, and a tendency to work on several things at once, I have managed in eight years of writing to finish only a half dozen short stories and two book-length tales. One of these latter, The Cousin from Clare, is based on stories my mother told me, as a child, about her childhood in Ireland. The other, Three Tunes for a Flute, uses much the same background, that of the country about Bantry Bay, and has to do with a pair of Irish twins, a mysterious red-haired Yankee, and a silver flute that had once belonged to the boy twin’s grandfather. The idea for the story came to me after my own young nephew had instituted a search for the flute which his grandfather had played, and which, for years, was supposed to have lain securely in the attic of the old house where, in the family’s phrase, it had been put for “safe keeping.” But when we went to look for it, the flute was nowhere to be found...
author also of
- The cousin from Clare (New York, Macmillan, 1932) : LoC permalink
- Penny Lavender. illus. by Kathleen Voute (New York, Macmillan, 1947) :
LoC permalink
related —
- 10258 Rose McLaughlin Sackett Papers, ca. 1938
Manuscript and a cover design for a children’s book entitled, Three Tunes for a Flute. (2 items)
State Historical Society of North Dakota : link
aside —
The Minnesota Writes collection of autobiographical writings includes some writers who have appeared among these putterings, including Martha Ostenso (298 and 302) and Brenda Ueland (247), and one Eric Sevareid who has not (until now : 447), but whose account of his earlier years starts with his and his friend Walter Port’s canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay.
Eric Sevareid (1912-1992) : wikipedia : link