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Boating through time

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

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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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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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