Lower Price on Irving Fiske's "Bernard Shaw's Debt ..."

I have quite a few Shaw's Debt to Blake pamphlets by Irving Fiske-- they seem almost brand new. I have more than I thought and would like to make them available to anyone who'd like to read the essay, so I'm lowering the price to $4.00 a copy (good shape) and $2.00 a copy (plus postage) for a copy with wrinkles or light stains. Send money plus $2.00 for Media Mail shipping to PO Box 379 Rochester VT 05767 Make check out to Isabella McFarlin Money will be used to promote publication of other works of Irving's. Also available at Amazon.com.

Now Available! "Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake" by Irving Fiske

ATTENTION, COLLECTORS! We have just found some rare copies of IRVING FISKE'S classic pamphlet/essay, Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake, printed in 1979 by Quarry Hill Creative Center and the Fiske Family. It is an exact replica of the pamphlet first reprinted in 1951 as a "Shavian Tract" the behest of George Bernard Shaw, who said of this essay: "This essay... I rank among the best, perhaps the very best, about myself..." "Hundreds of articles have been written about me and forgotten. "This is the one I would have published and circulated as widely as if I had written it myself. "Let it not be forgotten even when I am no longer remembered." (GBS, 2.1.1949) Some of these pamphlets are in perfect condition; others have minor crinkles or stains on the cover. The cover, which has a picture in black and white of G.B.S., has had a black and white drawing, by visionary artist and cartoonist Barbara Hall Fiske, added to it. A brief biography of Irving Fiske, by his daughter Ladybelle, was added as a postscript in 1979. Critic and writer Colin Wilson, among many others, praised Irving Fiske's ability to contrast and associate the work of Shaw with that of Blake. For many years this little essay, published by Shaw himself,has been considered a classic of Shavian and Blakian literature. This is the chance to own a simple, but inexpensive, copy of Irving Fiske's essay on Bernard Shaw and William Blake. "They (this collection of thought) show that I am also among the Prophets," said Shaw. $7.00 for perfect copies (we have nine), and $5.00 for 2 or 3 with stains and minor wrinkling. $2.00 for Media Mail,$3.95 for Priority Mail. USPS only. Send to Isabella F. McFarlin Quarry Hill Creative Center PO Bx 379 Rochester, VT 05767 Thanks!

I love this strange page with info about Irving... sort of like playing "Jeopardy"

http://www.gogetpapers.com/Questions/Irving_Fiske

Don Calhoun's Birthday

June 14, 2011-- Remembering Don Calhoun, Ph.D, Barbara Fiske's second husband, and one of the guiding lights of Quarry Hill in the Eighties and Nineties. Don was born this day in 1917; a pacifist, Quaker elder, orange farmer, sociology professor, and much more, Don was a person we will long remember. He and Barbara had a very happy marriage. We were all very fond of him, including Irving; the three of them had a kind of mutual fondness for one another (after Irving got over his jealousy of Don). Om Mani Padme Hum. Donald W. Calhoun June 14, 1917-May 5, 2010 Don wrote many books including Spirituality and Community, about the communities in and near which he spent his life, including Quarry Hill Creative Center. This book can be purchased at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Spirituality-Community-Autobiographical-Donald-Calhoun/dp/0870471015/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308079600&sr=1-1

From a Fan of Barbara's-- Admires her 1940s Comics work...

Dear Ladybelle,

My name is Alexa Dickman, and I am a comic book fan who has come across Barbara's name several times in some "Golden Age" histories.  I am currently spearheading a Women in Comics wiki and would love the chance to interview Barbara about her own career (her page:http://womenincomics.wikia.com/wiki/Barbara_Hall) and other women  I live in Boston, so it would not be too difficult for me to come up there, if she remembers that era at all and would not mind a few questions. Alternatively, I could just send you some questions to ask her, but since you are so open to visitors, I would hate to miss the opportunity!  Please let me know if this is at all feasible.  

Thanks and best wishes,

Alexa

January...

The middle of January already. Only two and a half? More months till signs of spring.
When syrup making begins and snowdrops come up through the earth, I know I've come through one more winter at Quarry Hill.
In days of yore, we would spend our winters at our cabin(s) on a lake in the National Forest in Florida, swimming and watching the beautiful sunsets. But now, work and various duties keep us here. I hope one day to be able to return to our lake in the woods in the winter, and swim on the beaches of my second home state.

Irving, before he died in 1990, dreamed of being at the ocean and, as he said to me, "There I was, at the ocean." (Barbara says he dreamed of looking back and seeing his footprints in the sand, and thought that it was a dream of approaching death... but not such a bad one, I think. "Footprints in the sands of time..." A poem he knew well, may have been in his subconscious at that time. (We dream of water, the ocean, when we draw near to the end of life, if we are conscious and transcendent people like my parents. Brion says it's the amniotic fluid before birth-- who knows?)
Barbara too just said she had had a dream of swimming in delicious shallow water in the ocean. I said, "Maybe you can go to the ocean next summer." She said, "But I don't want to go without you."
If she can make it, I'll try to get her to the ocean-- but I'm afraid her body might find the long trip difficult. I wonder if she would enjoy swimming in a swimming pool?
She is 91... (But still drawing beautifully)...