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by | August 23, 2024 · 2:00 pm

Boating through time

Marjorie Turner Hollman is an author, creator, and observer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

EJ Phillips publicity photo

Our family has rich resources in the form of letters from our great-great grandmother, E.J. Phillips. She travelled extensively in her work as a theater actress, and we know something about her feelings concerning boats, and travel by ship. We have numerous (over 1000) letters she wrote to her son and daughter that were passed down to us. We have some basis for feeling confident that boat travel was not at the top of her list of favorite ways to get from one destination to another.

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by | July 8, 2024 · 3:03 pm

EJP goes to Niagara Falls

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…the water rushes on as madly magnificent now as it did then, & still retains the youthful vivacity which made me rather envious of the Falls. EJP

Publicity photo, E.J. Phillips

When we made the decision to stop at Niagara Falls on our trip west, I was unaware that, as on some other trips we have taken, I was walking in the steps of our great-great grandmother, E.J. Phillips (EJP). She wrote to her son (my great-grandfather) from Niagara Falls, where she was engaged to perform at the theater there.

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by | January 18, 2024 · 2:32 pm

Strenuous travel-EJ Phillips and me

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

E.J. Phillips, actress, devoted mother and grandmother

Ambivalent—that’s how I feel about travel, especially when the likelihood is high of it being strenuous. I have the heart of a world traveler but the body of a day-tripper. A yearning for travel is in my very bones, yet the effort involved in leaving home can freeze me in my tracks.

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by | January 9, 2024 · 4:23 pm

Bicycle craze

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

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Out on our tandem during the Covid pandemic (Acadia National Park)

We humans are prone to “enthusiasms.” Even though we want to distinguish ourselves from others, being attracted to what “everyone else” is doing seems to be in our makeup. I saw this most recently during the Covid Pandemic that began in 2020. Suddenly deprived of indoor entertainment and ways of gathering safely, crowds headed outdoors and soon parks and trails were jammed with visitors. It became so bad that those overseeing these outdoor spaces felt forced to close them because of concern for contagion. We ourselves continued to ride our tandem bicycle, but shifted our habit of riding on rail trails, instead turning to quiet country roads to spend time outdoors away from crowds.

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by | December 5, 2023 · 4:31 pm

From train trips to rail trails

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

Excursion train taking passengers through the Royal Gorge, near Canon City, Colorado

On a cross country trip in 2021, one of my family’s stops was the Royal Gorge near Canõn City, Colorado. What I did not realize until we started sharing photos of our trip with family was that my great-great grandmother, E.J. Phillips, had traveled through this very same area in 1886.

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by | November 17, 2023 · 5:21 pm

In Search of E.J. Phillips

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a writer who loves the outdoors. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

E.J. Phillips’ publicity photo

We had the letters, written by our great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Jane (E.J.) Phillips. The carefully preserved sheets of paper, still in their original envelopes, along with multiple publicity photos from her decades on the stage, made up the whole of what we knew of a long ago grandmother. Another part of her story, a quilt she began, and an essay about the quilt, was lodged with our more distant cousins.

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