02336cam a2200433u  450000100100000000300070001000500170001700700030003400800410003702000300007802000220010804000130013004300210014304900090016410000270017324500810020026000290028130000430031050400410035352005270039454504670092160000310138860000200141960000190143960000210145865000500147965000530152965000210158265000280160365000210163165000180165265000130167065100320168365100420171565100310175796100060178899900150179495200930180952187479 OCoLC 20190501170125.0ta120126s2002    xx ac    b    000 0 eng d  a1403336962 (cloth)c18.95  a1403336954 (pbk.)  aMEAcMEA  an-us-mean-us-ky  aCTMA1 aCunningham, Eleanor W.10aMiss Apple :bletters of a Maine teacher in KentuckycEleanor W. Cunningham.  b1st Books Libraryc2002.  axxii, 256 p. :bill., ports. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aIn 1998, Eleanor Cunningham found twelve letters which her mother, Ethel V. Applebee, had written to her mother in 1920-21. Ethel was one of thousands of Northern teachers sent to the South by the American Missionary Association to teach black children after the Civil War. The book also includes the love letters between Ethel, and her future husband, Howard Leighton of Cumberland, Maine.  Howard Leighton lived in Falmouth when he wrote letters to Ethel, in the house that is now the Falmouth Historical Society museum.0 aEthel was born in Enfield, Maine, on February 12, 1893. When she was 13 years old her family moved to Bucksport, Maine, where Ethel enrolled in East Maine Conference Seminary and Normal School, graduating in 1911. Her first teaching job was in Easton, Maine. After teaching in the South, marriage to Howard Leighton of Cumberland, Maine, and living in Falmouth, Maine, Howard and Ethel moved to Rockville, Maryland in 1923. Ethel died in 1973 in Olney, Maryland.10aApplebee, Ethel Valentine.30aAppleby family.30aLayton family.30aLeighton family. 0aElementary school teacherszMainevBiography. 0aElementary school teacherszKentuckyvBiography. 0aTeacherszMaine. 0aSchoolszMainezEaston. 0aWeddingszMaine. 0aLove-letters. 0aLetters. 0aBucksport (Me.)vBiography. 0aCumberland Foreside (Me.)vBiography. 0aFalmouth (Me.)vBiography.wlt4  c2872d2872  4070aABELJbabeljcBd2016-10-26l0oB APPLp32191r2016-10-26v18.95w2016-10-26yBOOK