tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55890307442009369192024-03-26T23:37:59.501-07:00The Ella Higginson BlogThis blog is dedicated the life and works of the great Pacific Northwest author Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862-1940). We strive to transcribe and publish her poetry for all to see, as well as update the public on her ongoing literary recovery.The Ella Higginson Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04775993391682394382noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589030744200936919.post-39171583957865017022019-03-21T22:54:00.001-07:002019-03-21T22:55:01.081-07:00The Role of Digitized Newspapers in the Ella Higginson Recovery Project: Dr. Laura Laffrado for the Readex Report<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. Laura Laffrado's recent essay about the role of digitized newspaper databases in literary recovery projects in the <i>Readex Report</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Laura Laffrado, Director of the Ella Higginson Recovery Project, has been featured in the latest issue of the <i>Readex Report</i>. Readex is a publisher of primary sources and works to increase access to those sources through online databases. After using Readex's <i>Early American Newspapers</i> database, a digital archive featuring national and local newspapers, Dr. Laffrado found two poems by Ella Higginson that she had never heard of. The poems were written early in Higginson's career and were not widely circulated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the <i>Readex Report</i>, Dr. Laffrado explains her work with resources like the E<i>arly American Newspapers</i> database in tracking down Higginson's writing. Dr. Laffrado has catalogue</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">d over 800 Higginson pieces from physical and digital archives. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Laffrado writes, "<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This recent availability of digitized American newspapers with varying circulations and from all U.S. geographical regions has opened unique possibilities for discovering lost works and references."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The earlier published of the two new poems is "Just Once," which appears in the <i>Daily Nebraska State Journal</i> on October 21, 1888.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If we, who never met, should meet,<br /> And, after meeting, come to know<br />That, if we had but sooner met,<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>We might have loved each other so;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If, after meeting many times,<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>The thought should swell into regret<br />That God had not ordained it so,<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>That we in freedom could have met;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If, looking in each other's eyes<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>The while both knew the same sweet care,<br />And all but passion<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—</span>conquered<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—</span>we<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Should read the same thought written there;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If, knowing, then, that we must walk<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Henceforth in ways as far apart<br />As sea to sea, because we saw<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>What trembled in each other's heart;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then, if but for one single time,<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Well knowing, too, that it was wrong,<br />Our lips should meet in one last kiss,<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Replete with passion, tender, long;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Would this, I say, be sin so black<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Let those all sinless cast the stone<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—</span><br />That a whole blameless after life<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Could never for it quite atone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The second poem is "O, Puget Sound" which appears in the Tacoma publication <i>Every Sunday</i> on September 13, 1890.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">O, Puget sound that sparkles at my feet,<br />How soft thou art! How pure, and cool, and sweet!<br /> One great, red poppy in the sunset's sheen,<br /> The sky above, the golden haze between—<br />Sunbeams and moonbeams on they bosom meet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thou proudly bearest many a white-winged fleet<br />Upon thy channel's quiet, peaceful street,<br /> And purple skies to kiss thee ever lean—<br /> O, Puget sound!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Care that would rack my bosom canst cheat<br />Canst cool and quiet passion's restless heat:<br /> And when I stoop to thy arms, soft and green,<br /> I feel thy kisses thrill with rapture keen,<br />And my sad heart with thy heart, passionate beat<br /> O, Puget sound!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To read about Dr. Laffrado fascinating work on the Ella Higginson Recovery Project in digital newspaper archives, follow this link:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In Federation Forest State Park in Enumclaw, Washington, there is a special grove of trees dedicated to Ella Higginson. The Ella Higginson Grove is on land that was donated by Ella Higginson’s closest friend, Catherine Montgomery, in 1952.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />Two photos of the grove were sent to Dr. Laura Laffrado, Director of the Ella Higginson Recovery Project, after her op-ed piece about Ella Higginson's thoughts on the over-development of the Pacific Northwest was published in the Seattle Times a few weeks ago. To read Dr. Laffrado's op-ed, click this link: <a href="https://ellahigginson.blogspot.com/2019/02/laments-over-unbridled-growth-in-our.html">https://ellahigginson.blogspot.com/2019/02/laments-over-unbridled-growth-in-our.html</a><br /><br />An unidentified newspaper reports in January 1952 on the grove's establishment, "This transaction has been completed recently by the way of a gift from Miss Catherine Montgomery, a retired faculty member of the Western Washington College of Education. One of the factors of a close friendship between these two distinguished women was their shared love of the Northwest's beautiful outdoors."<br /><br />The article continues, "The newly acquired Ella Higginson Grove adjoins the Federation Forest on the east side, and has some frontage on the transcontinental highway, with close proximity to the White river which borders the south side of the whole park. This grove will prove a valuable and important addition to the park, not only in its beauty, but from an historic standpoint, as the old Naches Trail, a favorite of early pioneers, enters the park at the Higginson Grove boundary."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Catherine Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island in 1867. She moved to Bellingham, Washington in 1899 to accept a position of one of the founding faculty members of what would become Western Washington University. Higginson and Montgomery were close friends until Higginson's death in 1940. When Montgomery died in 1957, she donated her entire estate to the Federation Forest park, which was eventually used to construct the Catherine Montgomery Interpretive Center.<br /><br /> Montgomery is best remembered for proposing the idea of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1926. To read more about her involvement in the Pacific Crest Trail's beginnings, read the Pacific Crest Trail Association's article "Meet the mother of the Pacific Crest Trail" by following this link: </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.pcta.org/2017/mother-pacific-crest-trail-catherine-montgomery-48060/">https://www.pcta.org/2017/mother-pacific-crest-trail-catherine-montgomery-48060/</a></span><br />
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Greenlees, former president of the Snohomish district of the Federation, was a timber conservationist who proposed the idea of the park to Esther Maltby, the sixteenth state presidents of the Federation. Maltby and Helen Sutton, who also served as a state president, worked together on the park's dedication, which took place in 1949. To learn more </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">about the history of Federation Forest State Par</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">k, watch this video produced by the Federation:</span></span></span></span><br />
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The Ella Higginson Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04775993391682394382noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589030744200936919.post-59348600928290156452019-02-23T17:00:00.000-08:002019-02-23T17:00:15.980-08:00"Laments over unbridled growth in our beloved Northwest are nothing new" - Dr. Laura Laffrado for the Seattle Times
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Washington University, has been published in the <i>Seattle Times</i>. The op-ed piece
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The Ella Higginson Blog Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04775993391682394382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589030744200936919.post-45596187920117906502019-01-09T16:58:00.004-08:002019-01-10T09:58:06.083-08:00Ella Higginson Celebration Taping Now Available!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On November 2, 2018 a reception was held in honor of the bronze bust of Ella Higginson unveiled in Wilson Library at Western Washington University. Local film crew Talking to Crows was present to record the event and now the edited video has been released for public viewing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reception featured speeches from Dr. Laura Laffrado, Director of the Ella Higginson Recovery Project; Dr. Mark Greenberg, Dean of Libraries; Professor Elizabeth Joffrion, Director of Heritage Resources at Western Libraries; and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Dr. Brent Carbajal, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Guests witnessed an exceptional vocal performance by local artist Olivia Pedroza, who performed three songs featuring Higginson's poems set to music. Pedroza's performance starts at 36:04 in the taping of the reception.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">To watch the video on YouTube, as well as other Ella Higginson videos: <a href="https://youtu.be/Uf3tIGqiho8">https://youtu.be/Uf3tIGqiho8</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guests at the reception, November 2, 2018. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Photo by Rhys Logan, Western Washington University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. Laura Laffrado, Director of the Ella Higginson Project, speaking at the reception. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Photo by Rhys Logan, Western Washington University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Olivia Pedroza, Western Washington University Vocal Performance major, who performed three of Higginson's poems that were set to music. Pedroza's performance in the video starts at 36:04. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Photo by Rhys Logan, Western Washington University.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">In her acceptance speech, Dr. Laffrado said, "<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I am utterly, utterly delighted by this, and especially delighted that this award comes from an institution, an organization, so dear to my heart, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.I think I can safely say that the last time Ella Rhoads Higginson's name would have been publicly proclaimed in the great state of Colorado would have been at the turn of the twentieth century, at the peak of her fame."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Laura Laffrado: Chris made the mistake of telling me I could say a few words. I promise, I promise I will keep this brief. I am utterly, utterly delighted by this, and especially delighted that this award comes from an institution, an organization, so dear to my heart, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. I think I can safely say that the last time Ella Rhoads Higginson's name would have been publicly proclaimed in the great state of Colorado would have been at the turn of the twentieth century, at the peak of her fame. This would have been around the same time that a review in the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> of her latest book of short stories described her as the author "who put the Pacific Northwest on the literary map." That was an accurate assessment. Higginson would publish over eight hundred works in her lifetime—I catalogued all of them—she would publish over eight hundred works in her lifetime, she was the recipient of a variety of national literary awards, her poems were set to music and were sung by the major dramatic singers of the day such as Enrico Caruso, and she was elected first Poet Laureate of Washington State. Despite all that, for reasons that every single person in this room understands, she was completely erased from the literary record, pretty much without a trace. It has been one of my pleasures in recovering Ella Higginson to find her self-designed gravestone, a gravestone she designed long after she has been forgotten, on which she had engraved, "Ella Higginson, Poet - Writer," just waiting for the moment when sometime in the future she would be found and recovered again. I would like to thank the—since I'm here—I would like to thank the organizers of this wonderful conference. I know how many moving parts there are in a thing like this, and this has been just such a deep pleasure. I would like to close by reading a poem, if you will, reading a poem by Ella Higginson celebrating her beloved Pacific Northwest, the region with which her writing is most closely associated. You'll all get it anyway, but the ending couplets are a very good time. This is "The Snow Pearls" from 1897.</span><br />
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background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>With green lights interwove,<br />And e'en the royal amethyst,<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—</span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>But most of all I love<br />The string of snow-pearls set around<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>This great blue sapphire, Puget Sound.<br /><br />The modest garnet, finely cut,<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Gleams like some rich old wine;<br />I hold the diamond's crimson flash<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>But more than these I love<br />The string of snow-pearls linked around<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>This cool, blue sapphire, Puget Sound.<br /><br />When up Mount Baker's noble dome<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Struggles the morning sun,<br />And waves of crimson and of gold<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Across the pale sky run;<br />When every fir-tree flashes out<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Like a tall gilded spire,<br />Sweet as a hope rooted in Heaven,<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At 11:30AM Friday November 2nd, the bronze bust of Ella Higginson was installed in the North foyer of Wilson Library at Western Washington University.</span></div>
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Matt Waldman from Western Washington University's carpentry shop prepares to install the bust. Photo by the Ella Higginson Blog.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The event was filmed by local filmmakers Talking to Crows, who filmed Higginson’s lost feminist screenplay <i>Just Like the Men</i> this summer. We’ll announce when the unveiling footage becomes available to the public, which we are told will be in about three weeks. To read more about these innovative and vibrant filmmakers, visit their site: <a href="https://www.talkingtocrows.com/">https://www.talkingtocrows.com/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The life-size-and-a-half, hollow-cast bronze bust was sculpted by Matt Glenn in his studio in Provost, Utah. Glenn’s company, BIG Statues, provides bronze sculptures for memorials and parks all over the US. One of Glenn’s recent projects was a memorial for women veterans installed in Las Cruces, New Mexico. To read more about Matt Glenn’s work, visit <a href="https://www.bigstatues.com/">https://www.bigstatues.com/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The first to speak was Dr. Mark Greenberg, Dean of Libraries, who welcomed guests into the Mabel Zoe Wilson Library. He noted the beautiful friendship that spanned three decades between Mabel Zoe Wilson and Ella Higginson. Next to speak was Elizabeth Joffrion, Director of Heritage Resources, who described the lively research relationship between Dr. Laura Laffrado, Director of the Ella Higginson Recovery Project, and the resources in the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. Dr. Brent Carbajal, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, affirmed Western Washington University’s support for the preservation of women’s achievements in our current political climate. Finally, Dr. Laura Laffrado took the podium to paint a picture of Ella Higginson’s life, from her family’s trek from Kansas to Oregon, her arrival in Whatcom, her first big literary breaks, her international fame, her obscurity after WWI, and now her literary recovery. The last speaker was Dr. Laffrado’s research assistant, Marielle Stockton, who demonstrated Ella Higginson’s love for the people of Whatcom County with a brief survey of her memorial poetry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />Talented Vocal Performance music major Olivia Pedroza of Sedro-Woolley then performed three songs, each of them featuring Ella Higginson poems as lyrics that were performed regularly in Higginson’s own lifetime. Footage of Pedroza’s marvelous performance will be available shortly; a special thanks again to filmmakers Talking to Crows. Next, Pedroza will be performing in WWU’s Concert Choir’s program “A Light in the Darkness: Songs of Hope and Comfort” on November 17, 2018. For more information on the event, visit here: <a href="https://cfpa.wwu.edu/event/light-darkness-songs-hope-and-comfort">https://cfpa.wwu.edu/event/light-darkness-songs-hope-and-comfort</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“What a deep pleasure it was to join with the many friends of Western who packed the Library’s Reading Room on Friday for the gala Ella Higginson Celebration!" Dr. Laffrado said of the reception. "Over a century after the peak of her fame, Ella Higginson is now permanently memorialized in a beautiful bronze bust proudly displayed in the entrance to Wilson Library. This is a wonderful moment of feminist literary recovery that I am so pleased to have guided.”</span></div>
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Dr. Laffrado with the bust before installation. Photo curtesy of Western Libraries, Western Washington University.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Announced earlier this year, a bronze bust of Ella Higginson will be installed in Western Washington University's Wilson Library. The unveiling will take place on November 2, 2018 in the Wilson Library Reading Room from 4:00PM-6:00PM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">All are welcome to celebrate the literary recovery of the first Poet Laureate of Washington State with us! There are no reservations necessary or admission fees. See an exhibit of Higginson works and artifacts, and enjoy a live musical performance and refreshments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To read more about the event, read the Western Today's press release on the event:<a href="https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news/ella-higginson-celebration-at-western-libraries-set-for-nov-2"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news/ella-higginson-celebration-at-western-libraries-set-for-nov-2</span></a></span></span><br />
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<i>The Mabel Zoe Wilson Library as seen from the upper floors of Old Main at Western Washington University.</i></div>
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<i>The Reading Room of Wilson Library where the reception of the Ella Higginson bust will take place.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The Mabel Zoe Wilson Library began construction in 1927, being the first separate library building the State Normal School at Bellingham (now Western Washington University) ever had. Until that time, the library was housed in various rooms and floors (and even in part of the attic) of what is today called Old Main, the only building on campus during the school's early years. In 1964, this library was named for pioneer librarian Mabel Zoe Wilson, who was the head of the library from 1902 to 1945, an astonishing 43 years of service! Just under two months after the naming, Mabel Zoe Wilson would die at the age of 86.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Ella Higginson and Mabel Zoe Wilson shared a sweet friendship. In 1953, thirteen years after Ella Higginson passed away, Mabel Zoe Wilson donated dozens of letters that Ella Higginson had written to her over several decades to the University of Washington's Special Collections, all perfectly preserved and even including the envelopes. This correspondence reveals a deep and affectionate bond between these two inspiring women. How fitting it is that a bronze bust of Ella Higginson will be installed in one of her dearest friend's thriving legacy, the Mabel Zoe Wilson Library.</span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 18.2px; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Zoe Wilson. . .</span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 18.2px; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This is just to tell you how much I admire you and how much I love you - so I hope you'll receive it before you turn homeward. I think of you so often and always with the same constant and loyal affection I feel for Olive - you are so different and yet so alike.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> I'm sure you're having a wonderful summer and I think you might have let me tag! . . . If you go to Venice, think of me every single minute - and love me a little bit, bad as I am.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> Your devoted friend,</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Quoted from a letter written on July 14, 1925 to Mabel Zoe Wilson, who was traveling in Rome that summer.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On July 22, 1939 a group of twenty-five experienced
mountain climbers were fifteen minutes from the summit of Mount Baker during the 20th annual climb hosted by Western Washington College of Education when an avalanche the width of a football field swept
the entire party a mile down the mountain. The tumbling snow spilled over into
a crevasse in the mountain seventy feet deep. When the slide had ceased, seven
members were missing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The two guides of this expedition frantically searched
the vast snowscape and managed to find Elizabeth Beers clinging to the mouth of
the crevasse by her fingertips. Two other members of the party raced down the
mountain and reached William N. Parke, the current district forest ranger at
Mt. Baker, and alerted him of the disaster. Parke immediately gathered both a
rescue team and supplies and initiated a search that would last six days,
hoping to find six bodies. They found two. The body of Alice James and Julius
Dornblut were recovered from the top few feet of snow that filled the crevasse.
It is believed that the remaining victims' bodies were piled under dozens of
feet of hardening snow in the crevasse near the bottom of the slide.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">An unidentified hat and handkerchief were found later,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Members of the search party surveying the path of the avalanche. Photograph by John Scurlock, July 1939.</span><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At the time, the Mt. Baker avalanche of 1939 became
the worst mountain tragedy in Washington State history. In light of the
disaster, Higginson wrote three poignant and haunting sentences titled
“A Sepulchre of Snow.”</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Of
all beautiful burial places on this lovely earth, if I might choose my own, my
choice would surely be to lie in the depths of a crevasse, covered with
perpetual snow; and with my name visibly etched by God upon a majestic mountain
for an enduring monument.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Think
of the sunrises and the sunsets; think of the moonlight on those silvery
slopes; think of how large and brilliant are the stars that keep ceaseless
watch over those silent places.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Through
the ages to be identified with one of the most beautiful mountains known; to
lie there forever, on the silver crest of the world, close to God—my brothers,
do you know anything lovelier after death than this would be?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On Western Washington University’s campus, at the
north end of Old Main, is a memorial erected in honor of the victims: Julius
Dornblut, Vene Fisher, Maynard Howat, Alice James, Beulah Lindberg, and Hope
Weitman.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The line “You will be forever climbing upward now” is
taken from a memorial poem written by Charles E. Butler, who was the current reference
librarian for the college.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Julius Dornblut was born in Radersburg, Montana on
January 23, 1909. He received his BA from Western Washington College of
Education in 1935. For the past four years he had taught at Alderwood Manor in
the Edmond’s school district. At the time of his death, he was fulfilling the
roles of adviser and editor of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WWC
Collegian</i> and was vice-president of the Alumni Association. He was survived
by two sisters.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Vene Fisher was born in Brady, Montana on June 21,
1914. The avalanche occurred the day after his twenty-fifth birthday. He
received his BA from Western Washington College of Education in 1936. He taught
for a year in Grays Harbor County, then had been an assistant in the county
engineer’s office of Island County for the past two years. He was survived by
his wife Hazel Lindquist Fisher, his parents, two brothers, and one sister.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Maynard Howat was born in Seattle, Washington on May
3, 1915. He was scheduled to complete his three year degree at Western
Washington College of Education less than a month later on August 18, 1939. A
veteran trackman, Howatt captured a conference title for the two-mile run twice
while attending college. He was survived by his parents, one brother, and one
sister.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Alice James was born in Valley City, North Dakota on
June 3, 1917. While attending Western Washington College of Education, she was
a member of the orchestra and the library student staff. She left the college
halfway through the 1938-39 academic year to teach in Standwood and planned to
return there in the fall. She was survived by her parents, three sisters, and a
brother.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Beulah Lindberg was born in Simms, Montana on October
9, 1916. She attended the State Teachers’ College at Dillon, Montana then
taught in both Belt and Fairfield, Montana. She was visiting friends also of
Montana origin who lived here in Bellingham when she was killed by the
avalanche. She was survived by her parents in her hometown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hope Weitman was born in Prairie City, Oregon on
September 28, 1915. She graduated from Eastern Washington College of Education
in Cheney and had taught in Chewelah. She was attending summer classes at
Western Washington College of Education and was residing at the Bellingham
YWCA. She was survived by her parents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Treadwell and Gastineau Channel in 1899. Image courtesy of the Winter and Pond Collection. Photographs, 1893-1943.
ASL-PCA-87, Alaska State Library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>There is a
fascination in walking through these high-ceiled, brilliantly lighted stopes,
and these low-ceiled, shadowy drifts. Walls and ceilings are gray quartz,
glittering with gold. One is constantly compelled to turn aside for the cars of
or on their way to the dumping places, where their burdens go thundering to the
levels below.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Page 125 of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alaska, the Great Country</i> by Ella
Higginson, 1908</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In 1908, the prestigious Macmillan Company published Ella
Higginson’s <i>Alaska, the Great Country</i>. A mix of Native American cultural
observations, territorial history, landscape description, and personal travel
anecdotes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alaska, the Great Country</i>
is a fascinating piece with something to interest readers of all genres. In the
tenth chapter, Higginson recounts her experience touring America’s largest
goldmine:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Our captain obtained permission to
take us down into the mine. This was not so difficult as it was to elude the
other passengers. At last, however, we found ourselves shut into a small room,
lined with jumpers, slickers, and caps. Shades of the things we put on to go
under Niagara Falls!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Get into this!” commanded the
captain, holding a sticky and unclean slicker for me. “And make haste! There’s
no time to waste for you to examine it. Finicky ladies don’t get two
invitations into the Treadwell. Put in your arm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My arm went in. When an Alaskan sea
captain speaks, it is to obey. Who last wore that slicker, far be it from me to
discover. . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Now put on this cap.” Then beheld
mine eyes a cap that would make a Koloshian ill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Must I put that on?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I whispered it, so the manager
would not hear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“You must put this on. Take off
your hat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My hat came off, and the cap went
on. It was pushed down well over my hair; down to my eyebrows in the front and
down to the nape of my neck in the back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“There!” said the captain,
cheerfully. “You needn’t be afraid of anything down in the mine now.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Alas! there was nothing in any
mine, in any world, that I dreaded as I did what might be in that cap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Treadwell opened in 1882 on Douglas Island, across the Gastineau
Channel from Juneau. Between 1882 and 1922, Treadwell produced $70 million
dollars in gold, just over $176 million dollars in today’s money. Accompanied
by the manager of the mine (who remains unnamed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alaska</i>) and Higginson’s friend, Catherine Montgomery (a teacher at
the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham, now known as Western
Washington University), they entered the Treadwell gold mine.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There were four of us, with the
manager, and there was barely room on the rather dirty “lift” for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We stood very close together. It
was dark as a dungeon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Now—look out!” said the manager.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As we started, I clutched somebody,—it
did not matter whom. I also drew one wild and amazed breath; before I could
possible let go of that on—to say nothing of drawing another—there was a bump,
and we were in a level one thousand and eighty feet below the surface of the
earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We stepped out into a brilliantly
lighted station, with a high, glittering quartz ceiling. The swift descent had
so affected my hearing that I could not understand a word that was spoken for
fully five minutes. None of my companions, however, complained of the same
trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The deepest mine shaft in Treadwell was 2,400 feet below the
surface. From these depths, ore (sediment containing valuable minerals or
elements) was extracted and then refined in the five Treadwell stamp mills. Treadwell
had the most stamps of any mining operation on the continent, housing
nine-hundred stamps when Higginson toured it. Stamps are refining machines used
to extract gold by crushing the ore. These gargantuan pieces of equipment endangered
the lungs of the operators by constantly kicking up microscopic pieces of ore
that the operators would inhale. Higginson described the noise of the stamps as
such:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The nine hundred stamps drop
ceaselessly, day and night, with only two holidays in a year—Christmas and the
Fourth of July. The noise is ferocious. In the stamp-mill one could not
distinguish the boom of a canon, if it were fired within a distance of twenty
feet, from the deep and continuous thunder of machinery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The stamps and operators of Treadwell in 1908. Image courtesy of <span style="color: #222222;"><i>Through the Yukon and Alaska</i></span><span style="color: #222222;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; direction: ltr; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco, 1909</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Higginson was touring the mine for research for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alaska, the Great Country</i>, and
relentlessly questioned the manager:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No one has ever accused me of being
shy in the matter of asking questions. It was the first time I had been down in
one of the famous gold mines of the world, and I asked as many questions as a woman
trying to rent a forty-dollar house for twenty dollars. Between shafts,
stations, ore bin, crosscuts, stopes, drifts, levels, and winzes, it was less than fifteen minutes before I felt the cold moisture of despair breaking out
upon my brow. Winzes proved to be the last straw. I could get a glimmering of
what the other things were; but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">winzes!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The manager had been polite in a
forced, friend-of-the-captain kind of way. He was evidently willing to answer
every question once, but whenever I forgot and asked the same question twice,
he balked instantly. Exerting every particle of intelligence I possessed, I
could not make out the difference between a stope and a station, except that a
stope had the higher ceiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“I have told you the difference <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">three times</i> already,” cried the manager,
irritably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The captain, back in the shadow,
grinned sympathetically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Nor’-nor’-west, nor’-by-west,
a-quarter-nor’,” said he, sighing. “She’ll learn your gold mine sooner than
she’ll learn my compass.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then they both laughed. They
laughed quite a while, and my disagreeable friend laughed with them. For myself,
I could not see anything funny anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I finally learned, however, that a
station is a place cut out for a stable or for the passage of cars, or other
things requiring space; while a stope is a room carried to the level of the top
of the main crosscut. It is called a stope because the ore is “stoped” out of
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But winzes! What winzes are is
still a secret of the ten-hundred-and-eighty-foot level of the Treadwell mine.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miners
work the overhead portion of stope on the 2300 ft. level in Treadwell. Image courtesy of <span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">the Harry F. Snyder Photograph Collection: Treadwell, Alaska, 1916-1918.
ASL-PCA-38, Alaska State Library.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When Higginson toured Treadwell, they were still in the practice
of using ‘pit ponies’ to haul tram cars of ore in the mines. Though most American
mines that used equestrian labor used donkeys or mules, Treadwell followed the
British method of using small horses, usually no more than twelve hands high due
to the low ceilings of the mines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A pit pony being lowered into a mine. Image courtesy of <a href="https://www.horsejournals.com/popular/history-heritage/ghosts-coal-mines" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">"Ghosts of the Coal Mines."</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Higginson, a lover of horses herself, clearly
was affected by the sight:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Tram-cars filled with ore, each
drawn by a single horse, passed us in every drift—or was it in crosscuts and
levels? One horse had been in the mine seven years without once seeing sunlight
or fields of green grass; without once sipping cool water from a mountain creek
with quivering, sensitive lips; without once stretching his aching limbs upon
the soft sod of a meadow, or racing with his fellows upon a hard road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But every man passing one of these
horses gave him an affectionate pat, which was returned by a low, pathetic
whinny of recognition and pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“One old fellow is a regular fool
about these horses,” said the manager, observing our interest. “He’s always
carrying them down armfuls of green grass, apples, sugar, and everything a
horse will eat. You’d ought to hear them nicker at sight of him. If they pass
him in a drift, when he hasn’t got a thing for them, they’ll nicker and nicker,
and keep turning their heads to look after him. Sometimes it makes me feel
queer in my throat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A miner and a pit pony, undated. Image courtesy of <a href="https://www.horsejournals.com/popular/history-heritage/ghosts-coal-mines" target="_blank">"Ghosts of the Coal Mines."</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thanks to later innovations, horses were eventually replaced
with mechanical tram cars. The last recorded group of working pit ponies was in
Queensland, Australia; they were allowed to retire in 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If you have read Higginson’s poetry, you are well aware of
her fascination and devotion to Bellingham Bay, Puget Sound, the ocean, and
most all bodies of water. It was here in the Treadwell mine that she got to
experience water in an entirely different way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“I suppose,” he said, sighing, “you
wouldn’t care to see the—”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I did not catch the last word, and
had no notion what it was, but I instantly assured him that I would rather see
it than anything in the whole mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">His face fell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Really—” he began.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Of course we’ll see it,” said the
captain; we want to see everything.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The manager’s face fell lower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“All right,” said he, briefly,
“come on!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We had gone about twenty steps when
I, who was close behind him, suddenly missed him. He was gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Had he fallen into a dump hole? Had
he gone to atoms in a blast? I blinked into the shadows, standing motionless,
but could see no sign of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Then his voice shouted from above
me—“Come on!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I looked up. In front of me a
narrow iron ladder led upward as straight as any flag-pole, and almost as high.
Where it went, and why it went, mattered not. The only thing that impressed me
was that the manger, halfway up this ladder, had commanded me to “come on.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I?</i>
to “come on!” up that perpendicular ladder whose upper end was not in sight!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But whatever might be at the top of
that ladder, I had assured him that I would rather see it than anything in the
whole mine. It was not for me to quail. I took firm hold of the cold and
unclean rungs, and started. When we had slowly and painfully climbed to the
top, we worked our way through a small, square hole and emerged into another
stope, or level, and in a very dark part of it. Each man worked by the light of
a single candle. They were stoping out ore and making it ready to be dumped
into lower levels—from which it would finally be hoisted out of the mine in
skips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The ceiling was so low that we could
walk only in a stooping position. The laborers worked in the same position; and
what with this discomfort and the insufficient light, it would seem that their
condition was unenviable. Yet their countenances denoted neither
dissatisfaction nor ill-humor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Well,” said the manager,
presently, “you can have it to say that you have been under the bay, anyhow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“<i>Under the</i>—”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Yes; under Gastineau Channel.
That’s straight. It is directly over us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A picture of miners in the shaft that extends beneath Gastineau Channel in 1916. Image courtesy of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank and Frances Carpenter collection, Library of Congress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This concluded her tour of Treadwell: “We immediately
decided that we had seen enough of the great mine, and cheerfully agreed to the
captain’s suggestion that we return to the ship.” It remains unknown on which
trip to Alaska Higginson went to Treadwell, for she took several tours of
Alaska in the years shortly before the publication of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alaska, the Great Country</i>.</span></div>
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Higginson declares in the book. “Its poetic situation, romantic history, and
admirable methods should make it the pride of America.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Douglas Island and Treadwell as seen from Gastineau Channel, c. 1896-1913. Image courtesy of <span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">the Paul Sincic Collection. Photographs, ca. 1898-1915. ASL-PCA-75, Alaska State Library.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Premier, a passenger steamer, after its deadly collision with the collier ship Willamette. Image courtesy of Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR 1895</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ella Higginson's poem “The
Wreck of the<i> Premier</i>” recounts the October 8, 1892 collision of the
collier ship the <i>Willamette</i> and the passenger steamer the <i>Premier</i>
on Puget Sound that resulted in six deaths and many more injuries. Ella
Higginson, who escaped unharmed, was on the <i>Premier</i> heading south to
Seattle when the vessel reportedly entered a thick fog near Port Townsend. The <i>Willamette</i>
was carrying 2,400 tons of coal at the time, and the <i>Premier</i> roughly 70
passengers. Shortly after the <i>Premier</i> departed from Port Townsend, where
it docked briefly for passenger boarding, they were struck on their portside by
the bow of the <i>Willamette</i> across from Bush Point. The <i>Willamette</i>
impaled the <i>Premier’s</i> pilot house, dining room, smoking room, saloon,
and the sleeping quarters of the crew.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Captain C. K. Hansen of the <i>Willamette</i>
realized after the collision that if he were to put his vessel in reverse and
pry them apart, the <i>Premier</i> would immediately flood due to its gouged
portside and sink in the middle of the channel. The passengers were then
instructed to gather the dead and wounded as best they could and transport them
from the nearly-destroyed <i>Premier</i> to the <i>Willamette</i>. Captain
Hansen then plowed across the channel, driving the <i>Premier</i> through the
water, and beached her on Bush Point. A tugboat called the <i>Goliah</i>,
hauling a vessel north, passed by a little while later and was flagged down by
the <i>Willamette</i>. The <i>Goliah</i> abandoned its task and instead loaded
the passengers and raced to Seattle, where the wounded were admitted to
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a letter to <i>The Dalles
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The best description of the
disaster which we have seen was written by Ella Higginson. She says that all
her life she has had a desire to be in an accident, preferably a water
accident, because the waves always curl up so soft and caressing that it seemed
to her it would be a good place to lie down beneath them and rest. "Well,
I have had my desire, and I am bound to confess that when I stood on the guard
of the Premier with the whole side of a bedstead in one hand, a pillow, yes a
feather pillow, in the other, my cloak under my arm, and a life-preserver
around my waist, and realized that in a moment I might be struggling with those
same waves for my life, there was nothing soft or caressing in their
appearance. I was flung on the floor several feet from my chair, and men, women
and pieces of furniture were swept violently past me. I heard groans and moans
of anguish, and low murmers of prayer, but not one scream. Not for an instance
did I lose my presence of mind."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, in attempting to find
a life-preserver for herself, she was met with unexpected difficulty,
particularly from the other male passengers:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I ran to four different
staterooms to get a life-preserver, but every door was locked. Then I ran out
on the rear guard, and I found men climbing down from the upper deck, and up
from the lower. They all swarmed around me, and all shouted at once, 'Now
madam, keep cool! Don't get excited!' In two seconds I realized that the
flutter of a petticoat had the effect on every man of jerking his mouth open
and forcing out the words: 'Keep cool! Don't get excited!' Exasperated, I
exclaimed: 'I am cool! But in the meantime, we may as well be thinking of
life-preservers. We needn't be too cool for that!' 'Life preservers!' wildly
ejaculated a man. 'Why, madam, we are on Puget sound! A boat can't sink on
Puget sound!'<br />
Even in that awful moment I was struck with the grim humor of his reply. What
an advertisement for Puget sound! Then a lady with a solemnity that puts me
into convulsions of mirth now whenever I think of it: 'Young man, don't you
tell us that if it ain't so!'</span></span></div>
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chaos on board, Higginson concluded her letter by mounting her soap box and
calling for reform:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
want to lift up my voice for better laws concerning life-preservers. I want
them out in plain sight, easy of access―I don't want them under berths in
staterooms with the doors locked, I want them labeled. They may not be pretty
ornaments for finely furnished cabins, but let me tell you, Mr. Law-Makers,
that after you have been in a shipwreck, they will be beautiful in your own
eyes under any and every circumstance. Another thing, make a law that the name
of each passenger shall be taken. The man who jumped overboard is unknown, and
may always be. We don't want to vote, but take our advice sometimes on a new
law.</span></span></div>
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Higginson's Account---Some Suggestions." <i>The Dalles Daily Chronicle.</i>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In her poem "The Wreck of
the Premier," Higginson only references one specific casualty, that of
thirteen year-old Frank C. Wynkoop of Tacoma, WA who was traveling with
his family. Two places in the poem a mother is referenced, once in the first
stanza with, “One poor mute mother by her dead,” and again in the seventh
stanza with, “The mother stirred, and her pale lips/Prayed now above her dead.”
The mother here is Mrs. D. J. Wynkoop, young Frank Wynkoop’s mother, who Ella
Higginson later recalls having spoken to earlier in the voyage. Frank Wynkoop’s
head was “smashed almost to a pulp” and “Mrs. Ella Higginson, the poetess, of
New Whatcom, assisted in laying out the body of the boy” ("Disaster in
Dense Fog" <i>The Seattle Post Intelligencer.</i> 9 Oct. 1892).</span></span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To this
day, Dr. Laura Laffrado has only found one negative review of Ella Higginson's
work since she began the Ella Higginson Recovery Project. However, for years Dr.
Laffrado was unsure what exactly the review said, as the only reference to it
was in a 1935 letter Higginson wrote to Alfred Powers (1887-1983, an Oregon author
and journalist). It was not until a few months ago that the
actual review was located.</span></span></span></div>
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The author of the review is unknown, but since it was printed in <i>The
Washington Standard</i> of Olympia, Washington, it can be assumed they were
local. The object of the review was Higginson's poem "Hate" which
appears in the collection of her poetry <i>When the Birds Go North Again</i>
(1898). The review, titled "A Fiendish Malediction" and published August
24, 1900, reprints "Hate" and goes on to critique the piece and its
author. Transcription below:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Hate" as it appears in Ella Higginson's <i>When the Birds Go North Again</i> (1898).</span></div>
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attributed to women those gentler instincts which mould the actions of humanity
into deeds of kindness and love, the foregoing quotation from a little volume
published by Ella Higginson, of New Whatcom, entitled "When the Birds Go
North Again," gives a rude shock. It causes a chill of horror to run down
the spine at the sudden realization of the fact that even the better half of
humanity may be as destitute of character as the bloodthirsty savage; assuming
of course, that poets always portray their heart-throbs when they take the
world into confidence, and that Truth twangs the strings of their empassioned
lyres.</span></span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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hatred as the fair authoress professes is not creditable, and it is not fair to
ascribe it to others if not seriously entertained by herself. It is not of
heaven nor of earth, and can only find a habitation in the regions of the
damned, and be held by those unforgiven and unforgivable creatures, who glory
in a hatred so intense that they hope it will last throughout eternity.</span></span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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then temerity and irreverence manifested by taking into her defiant confidence
One of all others whose nature beams with forgiveness and love; one who came on
earth and died to inculcate the doctrine of love, forgiveness and fraternity,
peace on earth and goodwill among men. She prays—not in His name surely—that a
fellow being, on her own judgement, may be sent to the "deepest
hell," and that the awful fires may "slowly do their part," so
as to inflict the most exquisite, lasting and horrible torments. This seems so
hellish (the proper word, dear reader,) it challenges belief that a human being
could have deliberately given expression to such cruel sentiment.</span></span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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is safe to say that if good old St. Peter ever catches a glimpse of that little
poem, Ella will never enter the pearly gates. She will be compelled to finish
out such profound hating "to all eternity," at New Whatcom, or in
Hades, for nobody with such a lump in her throat will be allowed to enter the
kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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Higginson would recall this over three decades later due to its damning nature.
The review is fraught with ideas from the culture of domesticity, perpetuating the
concept that women are inherently more moral than men (“the better half of
humanity”) and that it is their duty to be moral guardians of the household and
society.</span> <span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">In a single column, the
author of the review has attacked Higginson’s femininity, accused her of
personally harboring “hellish” hate for a woman in her community, claimed that
she could not possibly pray to the Christian God, and will ultimately be barred
from heaven upon her death.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The review as it appears in <i>The Washington Standard</i> on August 24, 1900.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">However, the review
points out its own flaw: the reviewer has confused the narrator of the poem
with the author of the poem (“</span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">assuming of course, that poets always portray their heart-throbs</span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">”). The narrator is the author’s own
construction, just as the lines of the poem are. Another review of “Hate” does
not make this mistake, declaring that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When
the Birds Go North Again</i> is worth owning for this poem alone, but agrees
that if the poem were inspired by the genuine hatred of real person Higginson
knew, then to publish it would be “improper” (pg. 430, The Book Buyer, vol XXV,
1903).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In her letter to Alfred Powers,
35 years after the publication of the review, Higginson finally addresses it: “I
have never publicly answered a criticism of my work; but I wish now to answer
many bitter and ignorant criticisms of one of my poems—"Hate," in my
volume "When the Birds Go North Again." How any one could read in
that poem that it is I speaking is entirely beyond my understanding.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The letter explaining "Hate" written to Alfred Powers by Ella Higginson, 9 June 1935. A full transcription is available at the bottom of this post.</span></div>
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Powers the origin of the poem, writing how she was inspired after seeing
actress Fanny Davenport (1850-1898) in her most famous role as the Queen of Egypt
in the English translation of French playwright Victorien Sardou’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cleopatra</i>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Many
years ago, in Chicago, I saw Fanny Davenport play "Cleopatra." There
was a scene in which, lying prone upon a couch, she watched through a screen,
a love-scene between Antony and Octavia. Her portrayal of a woman consumed with
jealousy was so powerful that I was deeply impressed thereby, and the poem
formed itself in my mind; and upon my return to my hotel, I made the first
rough draft of it at once. It was first published under the title of
"Cleopatra."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's unknown exactly when
Higginson saw the production, but that she saw it during a trip to the East
coast in 1891. Once on tour, the show played at the
Columbia Opera House in Chicago December 7-12, 1891 after a run first in New
York City and then in Boston. Fanny Davenport, the daughter of two successful
theatrical artists, produced, directed, and starred in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cleopatra</i>, whose script had not previously been performed in
English. The show, declared by the press as the theatrical highlight of the year,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>was worth
$50,000 (over $1.3 million today), had a chorus of over 120 members, and used
five real snakes in the performances.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fanny Davenport as Cleopatra, New York City, December 1890.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The scene which inspired
the poem was Act IV, Scene V. Cleopatra secretly listens to a conversation
between her lover Antony and the young Octavia. In the script, Antony tells
Octavia how he prefers her youth and chastity to Cleopatra’s maturity and
sexual experience. He compares Cleopatra to a ghost in the night and Octavia to
the brilliance of the dawn. The scene leaves Cleopatra “overwhelmed” and “destroyed”
and she weeps furiously before exiting the stage.</span></span></div>
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was included in my book, a critic advised me to name it "Hate,"
because it was the most powerful description of that devastating passion he had
ever read,” Higginson writes of the poem. A draft of
the poem kept in the Washington State Archives Bellingham branch sports the
original title.</span></span></div>
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as the title, this misunderstanding would have been
avoided and the damning yet hilarious review never written. At the close of the letter, she reiterates how foolish it was for the
reviewer to assume that Higginson was writing from a place of personal truth: “I
wrote a "murder" story once, also a "murder" poem, both in
the first person; but have not, as yet, been accused of that crime!”</span></span></div>
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answered a criticism of my work; but I wish now to answer many bitter and
ignorant criticisms of one of my poems</span><span style="color: black; margin: 0px;">—"Hate," in my
volume "When the Birds Go North Again." How any one could read in
that poem that it is I speaking is entirely beyond my understanding.</span></span></span></div>
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years ago, in Chicago, I saw Fanny Davenport play "Cleopatra." There
was a scene in which, lying prone upon a couch, she watched through a
screen, a love-scene between Antony and Octavia. Her portrayal of a woman
consumed with jealousy was so powerful that I was deeply impressed thereby, and
the poem formed itself in my mind; and upon my return to my hotel, I made the
first rough draft of it at once. It was first published under the title of
"Cleopatra." I believe in "foreordination," and I think it
was that which made me keep that first draft, bearing that title—and which has
long been in the possession of Edith B. Carhart, head of the Bellingham Public
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because it was the most powerful description of that devastating passion he had
ever read.</span></span></div>
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"murder" story once, also a "murder" poem, both in the
first person; but have not, as yet, been accused of that crime!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The <i>Seattle Times</i> has debuted their story on Ella Higginson, detailing the work of Dr. Laura Laffrado, director of the Ella Higginson Recovery Project. In a three-part online debut, journalist Ron Judd brings Ella Higginson's forgotten fame to public attention by following Laffrado's Higginson-themed English class at Western Washington University into the Washington State Archives. The article features pictures of students working with artifacts and documents from the Ella Higginson Papers. Aside from educating the public on Ella Higginson, Judd and Laffrado hope to right a wrong by publishing a proper obituary for the gifted poet, something the Times neglected to do when she died in 1940. Higginson wrote a weekly column in the Times for four years titled "Clover Leaves."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A new announcement about the success of the bronze bust campaign debuted today in Western Washington University's <i>Western Today</i> digital newsletter. In case you missed it, see the picture and transcription below!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Western Washington University Professor of English Laura Laffrado has successfully completed her campaign to raise funds for a bronze bust of celebrated Pacific Northwest author, Ella Rhoads Higginson.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At the turn of the 20<sup style="line-height: 0px; position: relative; top: -5px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</sup> century, Higginson was the most influential Pacific Northwest literary writer in the U.S. Among her many honors and awards, she was named the first Poet Laureate of Washington state in 1931.</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><i></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Laffrado launched her campaign through Western’s VikingFunder site, receiving generous donations from faculty, staff, students and friends of Western. The bust will be completed and unveiled in the next six to eight months, and located in the Wilson Library Reading Room.</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><i></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Laffrado is an award-winning author who is most recently the editor of the collection, “Selected Writings of Ella Higginson: Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature.”</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><i></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For more information, contact Laura Laffrado at (360) 650-2888 or via email at Laura.Laffrado@gmail.com.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That's right! Ella Higginson has her own day! On May 24, 1916, the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham celebrated our Pacific Northwest poet with a school-wide assembly. The event was reported that evening in The Bellingham Herald:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"This was Ella Higginson day at the State Normal and it was observed in a way that must have brought great pleasure to the gifted authoress. In her honor the students gathered in the auditorium this morning and listened to or took part in a very entertaining program, which consisted of poems and songs which she has written. As Mrs. Higginson entered the auditorium she was cheered and at the close of the exercises all of them filed by and shook her hand. She sat on the stage throughout the hour devoted to the program. Selections of her poems were read by Miss Mason, a student, and Mrs. G.W. Nash sang some of Mrs. Higginson's songs."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Last week, your Ella Higginson Blog editor got a very special package in the mail. A beautiful first edition copy of Ella Higginson's <i>A Forest Orchid</i> surfaced in California, but this book contained more than just prose. . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The note reads: "For dearest Margaret, from her ill, but her very loving and loyal, friend. E.H." This is unmistakably Ella Higginson's handwriting. For another sample here on the blog, see "The Rose" under "Love Poetry," which feature that poem handwritten out by Higginson.</span><br />
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<i>Laura Laffrado with a portrait of Ella Higginson in front of WWU's Edens Hall, on which a line from Ella Higginson's "College by the Sea" is engraved.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The bust will now begin production and will unveil in ceremonial event come mid-fall. The bust will be placed in the Wilson Library entrance hallway, across from the portrait of the library's first librarian, Mabel Zoe Wilson. We'll keep you updated on when the bust will be unveiled when that decision is made in the coming months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Mabel Zoe Wilson Library began construction in 1927, being the first separate library building the State Normal School at Bellingham (now Western Washington University) ever had. Until that time, the library was housed in various rooms and floors (and even in part of the attic) of what is today called Old Main, the only building on campus during the school's early years. In 1964, this library was named for pioneer librarian Mabel Zoe Wilson, who was the head of the library from 1902 to 1945, an astonishing 43 years of service! Just under two months after the naming, Mabel Zoe Wilson would die at the age of 86.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ella Higginson and Mabel Zoe Wilson shared a sweet friendship. In 1953, thirteen years after Ella Higginson passed away, Mabel Zoe Wilson donated dozens of letters that Ella Higginson had written to her over several decades to the University of Washington's Special Collections, all perfectly preserved and even including the envelopes. This correspondence reveals a deep and affectionate bond between these two inspiring women. How fitting it is that a bronze bust of Ella Higginson will be installed in one of her dearest friend's thriving legacy, the Mabel Zoe Wilson Library.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> This is just to tell you how much I admire you and how much I love you - so I hope you'll receive it before you turn homeward. I think of you so often and always with the same constant and loyal affection I feel for Olive - you are so different and yet so alike.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> I'm sure you're having a wonderful summer and I think you might have let me tag! . . . If you go to Venice, think of me every single minute - and love me a little bit, bad as I am.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> Your devoted friend,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> Ella Higginson</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Quoted from a letter written on July 14, 1925 to Mabel Zoe Wilson, who was traveling in Rome that summer.</span></div>
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