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Richard Merritt

Seacoastonline.com - Jan 20, 2012
As UNH photographer, he covered everything from football games to academic events, and his lens captured many of the nation's art, cultural and political icons, among them: JFK, Margaret Mead, Lotte Jacobi, Edmund Teller, Aaron Copeland and May Sarton.

Dacawi: An unlettered farmer's legacy

Sun.Star - Jan 6, 2012
Just meeting him would bless me with what May Sarton described as a sacrament of the ordinary, a spiritual purging, a renewal of my sense of the sacred. That must be the feeling of those going on spiritual retreat, They cry a river and come out with ...

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Journal of a Solitude

by: May Sarton

In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons, daily life in New Hampshire, books, people, ideas—and throughout everything, her spiritual and artistic journey.

"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love,are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened.
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The Fur Person

by: May Sarton

A delightful, whimsical tale—one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written.

May Sarton's fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones's life and adventures prior to making the author's acquaintance begins with a fiercely independent, nameless street cat who follows the ten commandments of the Gentleman Cat—including "A Gentleman Cat allows no constraint of his person, not even loving constraint." But after several years of roaming, Tom has grown tired of his vagabond lifestyle, and he concludes that there might be some appeal after all in giving up the freedom of street life for a loving home.
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The House by the Sea: A Journal

by: May Sarton

This is the first journal Sarton wrote after she moved in 1973 from New Hampshire to the seacoast of Maine.

Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought—and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.
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