{"id":1441,"date":"2019-07-30T18:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=1441"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:49:35","slug":"dorothy-w-sanborn-papers-1946-2001","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/collections\/collections-a-z\/dorothy-w-sanborn-papers-1946-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy W. Sanborn papers, 1946-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/DorothyWSanbornPapers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Full finding aid (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collection Scope and Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection contains many copies of newspaper articles, as well as book drafts, article notes and short stories. It also contains correspondence with editors\/publishers and family members, as well as multiple obituaries and a folder of unidentified photographs.\n   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biographical\/Historical Note<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy Wilkins Sanborn (Dotti) was born in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1908. She died in 2001 in Bridgton, Maine. Sanborn graduated from Boston University, and earned a master\u2019s of education from the University of Maine. In 1942, Sanborn moved to Bridgton with her husband and began writing \u201cUp on the Ridge,\u201d a neighborhood column for <em>The Bridgton News<\/em>. In the 1950\u2019s, she wrote a weekly column for <em>The Boston Post Sunday Magazine<\/em>, and also began teaching fifth grade. After her retirement from teaching in 1973, Sanborn began writing \u201cBird Seed,\u201d a column also for <em>The Bridgton News<\/em>, which she wrote for 21 years. Her articles also appeared in <em>Bird Watchers Digest<\/em>. After her husband died in 1995, she changed her column to \u201cSpeaking of Maine Food,\u201d which she wrote until her death.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection-category":[],"class_list":["post-1441","collection","type-collection","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/1441\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection-category?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}