'Put It Down on Paper': The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search

Phil Primack was a reporter for newspapers from Boston to Appalachia and has written for, among others, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and The Nation. He has taught journalism and is the author of New England Country Fair. Mary E. Folsom Blair was just a name on a listing sheet when writer Phil Primack bought her Epping, New Hampshire, property in 1974. As he learned more about this lifelong teacher, Quaker, and early advocate for outdoor education, his report...