tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78209661390419378282024-03-13T20:32:38.725-07:00The Magic Of One's Mind - Dedicated To Milancie HillThe Magic Of One's Mind - Dedicated To Milancie Harrison Hill.
My Aunt Milancie was a very gifted poet published first at age of 10 who heaven called home all too soon.
This is a collection of her pens in memory. (all contents copyright 2011)Milanciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05193746901749539273noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820966139041937828.post-88048314482838726562011-04-08T06:42:00.000-07:002012-04-20T05:37:54.485-07:00My Grandmother<div style="margin-left: 50pt;">
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">In Memory</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">There's a dear little room in a dear little house</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">That sits on the top of a hill.</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">It is here that my grandmother used to sit,</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And in mem'ry she's sitting there still.</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">It is there that she sat at her spinning wheel,</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Singing a sweet, old song,</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Sung to the tune of a merry brook</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">As it bubbled and babbled along.</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And whenever I think of my grandmother,</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I think of this sparkling hill,</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And this little room in a tiny house</span></strong><span style="color: #663300;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #663300; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Where the flowers bloom sweet on the hill.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><strong><span style="color: #0000a0;"><span style="color: #660000;">(published by Milancie Hill, 1929)</span> </span></strong></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milancie Leach with Granddaughter Milancie Hill</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><strong><span style="color: #0000a0;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Both I and my aunt were named for Grandmother Milancie Leach, 1836-1919. </em></span></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She was an artist of note and taught drawing and painting Dansville Seminary, Dansville, NY.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Her grandson Scott wrote she had been the bell of central NY before she married. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"A small, wonderful, self-deprecating personality, gave up her life to look after EJ. She was so kindly to sister and me. Milancie Leach was highly intelligent and an very avid reader and perhaps the real strength of the marriage. Grandma Hill was very short, perhaps less than five feet, and slight. She was highly intelligent, a continuous reader, and had perhaps an even keener mind that her husband, although she always kept in the background. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My chief recollection of her in those days was seeing her sitting either in the kitchen at a table by the window where she would be reading, or if not there in a near by pantry which had a huge old barrel with a square board on top, also by a window with a different light, and again reading."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She gathered plants for Ellsworth dissertations, when he was too lame and weak to do so, thus he soon gained notoriety as a botanist </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Birth: November 16, 1836 in Dansville, Livingston, NY <br />
Death: December 28, 1919 in Chicago, Cook, IL</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Father: Horace LEACH b: 2 NOV 1799 in Massachusetts <br />
Mother: Maria b: 6 OCT 1802 in Booneville, Oneida, New York</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Marriage Ellsworth Jerome HILL b: December 01, 1833 in LeRoy, Genesee, NY </span></div>
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</div>Milanciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05193746901749539273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820966139041937828.post-58517548800878342452011-04-08T06:39:00.000-07:002011-04-08T06:39:46.524-07:00Beckoning Sea 1929<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnjjoGjs-abBTPaqQGZ2t7uP-OyNr-t6pT4XFVIF4xzr_Bc2ZDP9posYNlanh0r5yNqTIXSSE3LrpEjH3c-YmDMvMxqU54vfrleEm9fVnvxb4iTjmKG6QEu7Ty5_dQcXpKQzUzIOioHg/s1600/Longing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnjjoGjs-abBTPaqQGZ2t7uP-OyNr-t6pT4XFVIF4xzr_Bc2ZDP9posYNlanh0r5yNqTIXSSE3LrpEjH3c-YmDMvMxqU54vfrleEm9fVnvxb4iTjmKG6QEu7Ty5_dQcXpKQzUzIOioHg/s1600/Longing.jpg" /></a></div>Milanciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05193746901749539273noreply@blogger.com0