{"id":1568,"date":"2023-08-07T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2024-09-26T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:16:58","slug":"looking-for-annie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Annie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I first heard about “The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America<\/a>,” by Elizabeth Letts<\/a>, I was intrigued. I finally read it, and fell in love with Annie and her story. I was so taken by it that when it came time for my birthday road trip, which was planned for visiting Paris and Norway (Maine), I asked my patient husband if we could do a side tour through Minot and Mechanic Falls in search of Annie.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I didn’t do my homework very well. I did see on our atlas “Annie Road” but there was no sign for it. We did find the Maple Grove Cemeter<\/a>y, where she is buried, but I naively thought that it would be a small cemetery and we would just stumble upon (or over) her headstone, which has etched on it: “Last of the saddle tramps.” Alas, this is a very large cemetery! There is an index online but I wasn’t quite clear on how to use it to find Annie, who is buried in the Libby family plot. So, another quest for another day. Meanwhile, I did get to see Annie’s old stomping grounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked this book so much that I have bought several more copies to give as gifts to some of my horse loving kin. I was never a horse woman, but I do love a good tale. This book shines with good hearted people who helped Annie and her animals along the way, and I loved how her story unfolded. And how wonderful that she is from Maine! The Long Island Community Library has a copy of this book, which is dedicated to the memory of another Annie, Annie Donovan, who also loved this book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update! My more clever friend Melissa had better success in finding Annie’s headstone, and was kind enough to provide better details, so next time I should have an easier time finding the headstone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first heard about “The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America,” by Elizabeth Letts, I was intrigued. I finally read it, and fell in love with Annie and her story. I was so taken by it that when it came time for … Continue reading Looking for Annie<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[639,643,642,641],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-annie-wilkins","tag-maple-grove-cemetery","tag-mechanic-falls-maine","tag-minot-maine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Maple-Grove-Cemetery.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}