[Rarebooks] FS: Small Amusing Regional Americana-

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Some Regional Tidbits :

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[Florida] “Me and Pa in Florida by Marcia Oral Clutter” - Published by 
the author, printed in Kissimmee by the Press of the Gazette, in 1933. 
4th revised edition. An interesting faux travelogue by the improbably 
named author, who was an “Author, Impersonator, Artist”. Written in the 
form of a letter in a painfully untutored dialect of unknown origin and 
featuring spelling which is two steps beyond original, this is by turns 
somewhat amusing and deeply offensive, and was presumably intended to 
lure tourists to the Sunshine State, though god knows what effect it 
actually had on them. Softcover. 4.75”x7”. 52 pages, black & white and 
line illustrations. Covers with some wear and light soil, corners 
thumbed, creased, pages age-toned. $20

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[Vermont] John Spargo 1925 Bennington Meeting House Marker Controversy. 
- English-born Bennington Vermont historian John Spargo gives his side 
of a controversy over the origins of the marker set up at the original 
Bennington Meeting House, for which somebody else had taken credit. The 
details give an interesting and eye-opening look behind the scenes of 
the development and funding of 1920s historical markers. It wasn’t all 
tea & crumpets and pleasantries. Folded sheet. 7.5”x10.5”. Folds, some 
soil, corner chip. $20

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[Massachusetts] "The Inauguration of Marion LeRoy Burton Ph.D., D.D. as 
President of Smith College The Fifth of October, MCMX" - Printed by the 
Rumford Press in Concord, New Hampshire and published in Northampton in 
1911. Marion LeRoy Burton was the second President of Smith College, 
which had been under the guidance of Laurenus Clark Seelye since its 
opening in 1875. Burton [1874-1925] became an important figure in 
American higher education, serving as president of Smith [1910-1917], 
the University of Minnesota [1917-1920], and the University of Michigan 
[1920-1925]. He oversaw the construction of many buildings at both 
Minnesota and Michigan, and was nicknamed "Burton the builder" at the 
latter, became a close friend of Calvin Coolidge while at Smith and gave 
the speech nominating him for the presidency at the Republican National 
Convention in 1924, and invited Robert Frost to be a Poet-in-Residence 
at the University of Michigan. This book gives the roster of attendees 
at the inauguration ceremonies, the schedule of the ceremonies, and the 
text of the speeches. Board covers. 6.5”x9.5”, 93+ pages, portrait 
frontispiece with tissue guard. Covers banged up a bit, some light soil, 
corners numbed, etc. Pages with scattered minor soil. $20

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[Massachusetts] 1931-34 Scrapbook of Rev. Robert Lewis Weis, Pastor of 
the First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Scituate, Massachusetts. - The 
Rev. Weis, of Saylesville, Rhode Island, studied at the Meadville 
Theological Seminary in Chicago and the Pacific School for Unitarians at 
Berkeley, California. He served as pastor of the First Parish Unitarian 
Church in Scituate between 1931 and 1933. The scrapbook begins with a 
letter of thanks for his work at the Bryn Mawr Community Church in 
Chicago and a handwritten letter from the clerk of the Scituate church 
welcoming him to the parish. It runs the course of two years with 
newspaper clippings about church events or events which included the 
Rev. Weis, as well as church programs and other memorabilia. According 
to a letter on the last page, he interviewed to become pastor of the 2nd 
Unitarian Church of Salem, Massachusetts in April, 1934 (he didn't get 
the job). The First Parish Church of Scituate is one of the oldest 
churches in America; the congregation was started by a group of 
Nonconformists in London in 1616, most of them leaving England and 
arriving in Scituate in September, 1634. Scrapbook. 10"x13", 20 leaves 
with clippings and other memorabilia pasted to both sides. Minor soil, 
light wear, first leaf detached but present. $20

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