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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:23 pm
Post subject: R.I.P. Elizabeth Gemming, 75, in Sept. 2008 (wrote about New England)
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Aka Mary E. Gemming, she lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2008/09/30/17271/mary-e-gemming.html
(obit, with photo)

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=765&bih=370&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&...1&q=%22
(covers)

"Teacher of English in secondary schools in Munich, Germany, 1954-55;
Pantheon Books, Inc., New York, N.Y., assistant editor and member of
promotion staff, 1955-57; free-lance writer, editor, and translator."


WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
Juveniles, except as indicated:

•Huckleberry Hill: Child Life in Old New England, Crowell, 1968.
•(With husband, Klaus Gemming) Learning through Stamps, Barre, Volume
I: The World of Art, 1968, Volume II: Around the World, 1968, Volume
III: Portraits of Greatness, 1969.

•Getting to Know New England, Coward, 1970.
•Blow Ye Winds Westerly: The Seaports and Sailing Ships of Old New
England, Crowell, 1972.
•Block Island Summer (adult book; photographs by K. Gemming), Chatham
Press, 1972.
•Getting to Know the Connecticut River, Coward, 1974.
•Born in a Barn: Farm Animals and Their Young (photographs by K.
Gemming), Coward, 1974.
•Maple Harvest: The Story of Maple Sugaring, Coward, 1976.
•Wool Gathering: Sheep Raising in Old New England, Coward, 1979.

•Lost City in the Clouds: The Discovery of Machu Picchu, Coward, 1980.
•The Cranberry Book, Coward, 1983.


Translator from the German; all juveniles:

•Renato Rascel, Piccoletto: The Story of the Little Chimney Sweep,
Pantheon, 1958.
•Max Bolliger, Sandy at the Children's Zoo, Crowell, 1967.
•Alfons Weber, Elizabeth Gets Well, Crowell, 1970.


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