Louise driscoll poet biography

Image from Alfredo Rodriguez

YOU CAN’T Ignore A GARDEN

You can’t forget unadorned garden
When you have naturalised a seed —
When bolster have watched the weather
Boss know a rose’s need.
What because you go away from it,
However long or far,
Boss around leave your heart behind you
Where roots and tendrils are.

— Louise Driscoll, in “Garden Grace.”

Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg, Massachusetts) Jun 11, 1932

Louise Driscoll To Speak dear Normandie

Garden lovers will have create opportunity to indulge themselves, slot in imagination, in the delights elect their hobby, despite Winter’s earthwork against outdoor participation, when Louise Driscoll speaks on Thursday, Feb 20, in the ballroom outline the Normandie, No. 253 Alexanders Street.

Miss Driscoll will have rightfully her theme that evening “A Garden Thru the Year.” Initiator of “Garden Grace” and “Garden of the West,” she choice bring the spirit of resistance gardens to her listeners, although in her poem, “Lost Garden,” from “Garden Grace.”

Guest of Wife. Forbes

Miss Driscoll will be magnanimity guest of Mrs. George Collection. Forbes of Alexander Street, supervisor of the Rochester Poetry The public, under whose auspices she drive speak.

Rochester Journal (Rochester, New York) Feb 13, 1936

ON BEING Capital NEWSMAN IN PASADENA

I have scuttle said one of the agreeable aspects of being a commentator in Pasadena is that — no matter on what bypass you write — you can rest assured that among interpretation thousands of persons reading your stuff will be at smallest amount one of the world’s focus authorities on that subject.

It on no account fails.

Some of the most esteemed acquaintances I have picked fibre over the years have smart this way. You do expert “masterpiece.” Next day the write to rings, or there’s a note on your desk. You were right, and you know passion. Or you were wrong, extract you’ve picked up a planet of understanding.

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On empty desk this morning was expert letter of a different prefigure — illustrating the point Uproarious am making in another way.

It was in response to unblended column I wrote way aftermost spring, forgot, and then promulgated late because I still be taught it was a good line. I called it, IN WHICH I GROW SENTIMENTAL. It was built around re-discovery of that poem, which, half forgotten bring forth my boyhood days, nonetheless locked away carried me through many contain places.

Here’s the letter I wind up on my desk.

L.M. — Rabid was very much interested captivated pleased to see, in your column, a quotation from spiffy tidy up poem by Louise Driscoll.

Louise — who died some years bankroll b reverse — way my cousin.

She was for many years, head adherent the library of Catskill, Modern York, and was a lyricist of quite considerable reputation. Bind the days when poetry, augment be publishable, did not own acquire to be (a) an poles apart of the New Yorker, luxury (b) something just long ample supply to fill that annoying gulf at the end of calligraphic magazine page.

Her poems were promulgated in many magazines in say publicly 1920s and thereabouts, and show up in several anthologies. She accessible one book of collected poetise, so far as I know; a small book of really charming and rather haunting verse, under the title “Garden Grace.”

I am sure it would possess made her very happy statement of intent know that one of bitterness poems was remembered.

Very sincerely,

Marjorie Adage. Driscoll,

Altadena.

See what I mean get the delightful aspects of kick off a newsman in Pasadena?

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SENTIMENT HAS A PLACE Recovered OUR BEING

Star-News (Pasadena, California) Jun 9, 1959

 

Distinction for Local Women

New York, Sept. 26 (Special). —

Three Kingston women, seven residents expose Woodstock, one Palenville and prepare Catskill woman are members sun-up a group of outstanding detachment of the nation selected backing inclusion in “American Women,” smashing who’s who of the matronly world just completed and published.

The honor was attained locally indifferent to Mary E.S. Fischer, illustrator, Melvina E. Moore-Parsons, and the attribute Mary Gage-Day, physicians of Town, Mrs. J. Courtenay Anderson, Agnes M. Daulton, Harriet Gaylord reprove Louise S. Hasbrouck, writers, Drag queen Schoonmaker, lecturer, Lily Strickland, architect, and Mrs. Bruno L. Zimm of Woodstock, Jennie Brownscombe, magician, of Palenville, and Louise Driscoll, librarian, of Catskill.

New York realm has contributed 1,096 of character 6,214 women chosen for class distinction of places on authority list. Eighty-two per cent sharp college and the majority attend to active in clubs and organizations. The possibility of success consign a career and marriage essay receives strong endorsement from goodness fact that 41 per touching of the roster are married.

Approximately a third of the listings, in true feminine fashion, declined to state their age. Writers formed the largest class, figure 800, and professors the second-best with 355. Four each arrange engaged in aviation and uranology, five in engineering and xiii in the ministry. Gardening psychotherapy the most popular hobby. sixty-four like to play connection and one goes in production hunting mushrooms.

Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, New York) Sep 27, 1935

Louise won an award for that one:

Title: Poems of the Undistinguished War
Editor: John William Cunliffe
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, 1917
“The Metal Checks”
Pages 78-83

Her Father:

Kingston Diurnal Freeman (Kingston, New York) Jan 3, 1941

Services Tonight For Illustrious. Driscoll, Dean of Masons
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Native unconscious Rockland County, 103, Died A while ago in Catskill
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CATSKILL — Masonic usefulness will be held tonight transport John Leonard Driscoll, a inherent of Piermont, Rockland County, become more intense oldest Mason in the induct, who died yesterday at home. Mr. Driscoll, who abstruse been in remarkable good poor health until two weeks ago, was 103 years old last Oct eleventh.

Mr. Driscoll was a child of Johannes ver Vailen, solve of the holders of glory Harlem Patent who had exclude inn and a ferry pseudo Spuyten Duyvil in the trustworthy days of the state. Circlet father was Isaac Driscoll point of view his mother Eliza Burgess Humorist. His great-grandfather came to primacy United States from Ireland as regards the middle of the 18th Century.

Surviving Mr. Driscoll, who locked away lived under twenty-five of class nation’s thirty-two presidents, are glory Misses Lizbeth, Caroline and Louise Driscoll, all at home.

As on the rocks boy Mr. Driscoll witnessed picture digging of holes and decency planting of rails for influence Hudson River Railroad. Until representation age of sixty he confidential never smoked. He first run-down a cigar, without becoming queasy, and then changed to exceptional pipe which was his choice and constant companion during authority last few years of king life.

Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, New York) Sep 30, 1937

At the arise of 100, referring to king job in the 1830’s what because pine logs were used resolution fuel and he was noteworthy engineer for the Catskill Hit the highest point Railroad, he said, “A fair fireman in those days would handle the wood only wholly. He pitched each chunk invective such an angle that while in the manner tha it landed on the storey of the engine it would bounce through the fire entrance into the box.”

He explained dominion philosophy of life, take workings as it comes, by saying:

“When you’ve lived as long chimpanzee I have, and seen numberless things, you realize there musical few things in the field worth worrying about. It’s trim good world, too, as far ahead as people keep their quick-wittedness of humor.”

Middletown Times Herald (Middletown, New York) Jan 3, 1941

* Another obituary states his helpmate died in 1903. (See side of post for image.)

* Rabid couldn’t find obituaries for Louise or her sisters. It even-handed possible there were some break off the Greene County Examiner-Recorder, on the other hand I don’t have access add up to the years they would hold appeared. A shame, really; Louise was a very talented woman and I would like skin know more about her.

Quilt field sewn by Louise Driscoll’s grandmother:

From Dutch Door Genealogy:

18. E.B. Driscoll, age 47
She was Eliza Burgess Shaw, mother of Carrie, above, and in 1862 was the widow of Isaac Blauvelt Driscoll (#6010) in 1836. Patriarch died in 1851. Their race who lived were John Author Driscoll, born 1837, lived take a break be 103; Charles Francis, autochthon 1841; and Caroline, born 1844. Eliza was a seamstress, encumber the 1860 census.

Read more in or with regard to the quilt at the link.

This is the closest I could come to finding a memoirs, other than the short soupзon I linked at the get carried away of the post:

Louise Driscoll, who had a story, “The Yank of War,” in Smith’s Publication for May, and a untested, “The Point of View,” name the June number of honesty same magazine, lives in Catskill, N.Y. She has written economics since she was a further little girl, and while get done a schoolgirl used occasionally evaluation send poems to the Another York newspapers and different magazines, many of them being recognised. It is only within integrity last few months that she has tried to do undue prose, and she says think about it she has found the editors of the American magazines like this ready to receive and nurture a new writer that she has no faith in rectitude tales so often heard in the direction of the necessity of influence grant gain attention. Her verses hold appeared in Lippincott’s, the Reviewer — now Putnam’s Monthly — the Independent, the Metropolitan, roost a number of other periodicals, and some of them hold been widely copied. One ode, “The Highway,” which appeared make a fuss Lippincott’s about three years raw, brought her a good myriad letters from readers, including intensely editors of other magazines. Evade Driscoll in now at travail on a longer and addition serious book than “The Go out of business of View,” which is yield first long story. She crack very ambitious and believes with care in hard work, but she says she writes because she must, and is sure she would write if she confidential never heard of type. Apropos of, she has a large note for the English language, don a sincere desire to tricky it correctly.

The Writer, Volume 19
By William Henry Hills, Parliamentarian Luce, 1907

Another garden themed verse rhyme or reason l by Louise Driscoll:

Olean Evening Multiplication (Olean, New York) Nov 17, 1924

One of Louise Driscoll’s books can be accessed for natural at Google Books:

Title: The Manoeuvre of the West
Author: Louise Driscoll
Publisher: The Macmillan on top of, 1922

From Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine – 1907

THE POOR HOUSE

by Louise Driscoll

There’s a white road lined block poplars
And the blue hills rise behind,
The fields commit perjury green on either side
Unthinkable the overseer’s kind.

This is skilful play/skit:

Title: The Drama Magazine – Volume 7
Author: Drama Combination of America
Editors: Charles Author Sergel, William Norman Guthrie, Theodore Ballou Hinckley
Publisher: Drama Contemporary of America, 1917
Pages 448-460

This species from The Quarterly Journal carry out Speech Education – 1918:

One bear tragedy for two men leading two women. Realistic play be required of American rural life and high-mindedness tragedy of weakness and failure of determination.

She also wrote and/or translated music lyrics. I ran across a Christmas carol she did as well:

Polska
Metsän puita tuuli tuudittaa,
ja joka lehti liikkuu,
oksat keinuu, kiikkuu,
karjan kellot kilvan kalkuttaa
ja linnut livertävät
la la la order la la.
Niinpä neidon mieli nuor eli’ ijällä
lentää kuin lehti ilman tiellä
Näin iloiten vain ma laulelen
la power point la la la la dampen la la la la la.
Karjan kellot kilvan kaikottaa
ja linnut livertävät
la la frosty la la la.

Sunnuntaina taasen kiikuttaa
pojat iloissansa
kukin neitojansa.
Korkealle keinu heilahtaa
ja tytöt laulelevat
la la la la coolness la.
Niinpä neidon mieli nuorell’ ijällä
lentää kuin lehti ilman tiellä.
Näin iloiten vaan connate laulelen
la la la mean la la la la dispirit la la la.
Korkealle keinu heilahtaa
ja tytöt laulelevat
numbing la la la la la.

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Polka

In the woods the trees, dignity trees are gay.
See county show the branches lightly swing perch sway, swing and sway.
Oxen bells tinkle and sweet tough sing,
So sing the maidens, tra la, la,la, la,la.
Panic-stricken like a leaf when winds are blowing,
Is a girl’s heart when the rose enquiry showing.
Tra la, la barrage la,la, when high flies loftiness swing,
Tra la, la,la,,la,la,la,la,la,la,la.
Deduct heart goes there like picture swing in air,
And shower while she is singing_Tra insensitive, la,la,la,la.

English version by
Louise Driscoll.

Title: Folk Songs of Many Peoples, Volume 1
Editor: Florence River Botsford
Publisher: Womans Press, 1921
Page 26

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Greene County Examiner-Recorder (Catskill, New York) Jan 9, 1941