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003			OCoLC
005			20190501170125.0
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008			120126s2002 xx ac b 000 0 eng d
020			_a1403336962 (cloth) _c18.95
020			_a1403336954 (pbk.)
040			_aMEA _cMEA
043			_an-us-me _an-us-ky
049			_aCTMA
100	1		_aCunningham, Eleanor W.
245	1	0	_aMiss Apple : _bletters of a Maine teacher in Kentucky _cEleanor W. Cunningham.
260			_b1st Books Library _c2002.
300			_axxii, 256 p. : _bill., ports. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_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.
545	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.
600	1	0	_aApplebee, Ethel Valentine.
600	3	0	_aAppleby family.
600	3	0	_aLayton family.
600	3	0	_aLeighton family.
650		0	_aElementary school teachers _zMaine _vBiography.
650		0	_aElementary school teachers _zKentucky _vBiography.
650		0	_aTeachers _zMaine.
650		0	_aSchools _zMaine _zEaston.
650		0	_aWeddings _zMaine.
650		0	_aLove-letters.
650		0	_aLetters.
651		0	_aBucksport (Me.) _vBiography.
651		0	_aCumberland Foreside (Me.) _vBiography.
651		0	_aFalmouth (Me.) _vBiography.
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