This book achieves something truly special by demonstrating how creative work happens in the context of mutually supportive relationships. I wish more histories were written in ways that acknowledge this reality. In addition, it is rare to read an informative history that also touches the reader on an emotional level.""—Rachel Snow, University of South Carolina Upstate ""This is an ... Read moreintricately researched, beautifully written, compelling, and innovative social history. Fanning makes the stories of an individual family of local and national significance in the 1890s and early 1900s more broadly relevant by paying such careful attention to the many ways in which the lives of each family member are representative of broader trends in American history.""—Libby Bischof, coauthor of Maine in Photographs: A History, 1840–2015 Show Less