Their solution was to peel the potatoes thickly - the thick peelings went for seed, and what was left of the middle was eaten. His family ended up with a potato harvest that was too small to both eat and save for seed in the spring. My husband's father was born in the early 1940s, but he still heard tales passed down from relatives about the terrible times during 1800-and-froze-to-death. Elizabeth Yates died Sunday at a hospice in Concord, New Hampshire on Jat the age of 95.Įlizabeth Yates' books have been described as "the result of extensive research, a strong underlying belief in God, and a vivid imagination." She also served as the Director of the New Hampshire Association for the Blind. Yates conducted writer's workshops at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Connecticut, and Indiana University. Yates won the Newbery Award in 1951 for her book, Amos Fortune, Free Man, a biography of an African prince who is enslaved and taken to America. She moved to England with her husband and wrote her first book, High Holiday, based on her travels in Switzerland with her three children. She worked a variety of jobs including reviewing book, writing short stories, and doing research. Determined to be an author, she moved to New York City to launch her career. Elizabeth Yates, author of over forty books for children, was born in New York State on December 6th, 1905.
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