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The laughter and love, the comic and tragic – the whole spectacle of a small town life as seen through the eyes of a little girl in the Bible Belt in a year of upheaval, change and a final understanding of who she was.

Only for a birder could the scenic splendor of Ecuador be surpassed by its fabled array of birds. Whether our view of the Amazonian rain forest was from a floating hotel on the Rio Napo or from a tree house some 120 feet up in a canopy giant, the exuberant avifauna kept our mouths continually open to find words for its beauty. Our journey through stubborn change-resistant land was, in many ways for us, like a wonderful dream.

Los Tres Corazones (the name of our hideaway in Mexico) describes a primitive community as seen through the eyes of a passing tourist, an account of the building of our area from indigenous materials, and how we spend our time in a place that has no roads, no electricity, no golf or night clubs. Underlying the account is a leit motif of the magical ambiance -- a kind of madness -- that exists where illusion and reality cohabit with no compulsion to separate the two.

Background. “It is more Blessed" was to have been about the Wieboldt Foundation but I discovered that getting there is half the fun so my paper was "Background", the story of my grandparents. Coming from Germany as children, starting the store, doing well, and giving back much of what they made to the community from which it came.

The author read her long narrative poem "Flight to a Haunted Palace" which was published last August in Great Lakes Review, a literary journal (volume 8, No. 1, 1982, page 44). The poem is a modern love story, and also deals with the supernatural. It won the annual poetry award May 7, 1983, at the Friends of Literature annual Shakespeare dinner.

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A 40 page account of the history, legends and operations connected with the auction firm of Sotheby's. The tale begins in London of the seventeen forties when Samuel Baker issued his first book auction catalog and continued to the New York of the present where Sotheby Parke Bernet holds its major U. S. art and furniture auctions at 1554 Park Avenue. (not at Newberry, in Winnetka)[paper is missing].

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Ties a brief history of the Metropolitan Opera, marking its centennial this year, to the experiences of a son who sang in the chorus of the Chicago Lyric Opera when they performed at La Scala and the Vatican.

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A look into the problem of educating the profoundly deaf. While electronic hearing aids and new surgical procedures have significantly helped the hard-of-hearing, the struggle is still intense and the success rate low for a profoundly deaf child to become a communicating member of our society.

Vignettes of my life as an undergraduate - first at Vassar College for three years and, twenty-two years later, at Lake Forest College from which I graduated in 1970.

This is a paper about change and memories, the accumulation of treasures in a long life, and how to dispose of them.

Traumas experienced and treasures discovered while emptying the 13-room house in Winnetka that the author inherited from her friend Nathalie Gookin (not in Newberry).

A series of incidents, most of them humorous, which attempted to explain what went into the composition of my particular life from before my birth to the time of my marriage.

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