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