Elise Fellows White performing Chopin's Etude in D, 1942
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Skowhegan History House
In 1948, she wrote to her son Bruce, "I am safe and comfortable here at the Salvation Army Emergency Lodge at only fifty cents a night. I eat at various Automats and feel well. I have enough money pinned to my undershirt to last several weeks."
Still, as she notes in her autobiography and other writing, she met many interesting and important people, experienced life at the heights of society and on the western mining frontier, and left behind documents that shed light on her, her personality, and experiences as diverse as mining and classical music.
Her interest in culture – as well as in fame – is evidenced by the many concerts she gave, music she composed, poetry she wrote and sometimes published, articles
on music and events she wrote and published, drawings and other artwork she created.
Mary Elise Fellows White was determined to have a life that mattered – and to demonstrate to future generations that her life and her art had done just that.
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