Author Archives: Northeast Historic Film
Children of the Northlights: A portrait of Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire
Portrait of children’s book creators. Authors describe spending five years on Greek myths book. Travel with their children. One of their first books, Ola, about a Norwegian boy, preceded the birth of their own son, Ola. Contains home movies of Ola and Ingri’s family in her youth. Used color lithography process to create books during
Muscongus Pond: A Potters’s Place
Potter Connie Romero at work. She talks about relationship between her work and her cabin on the pond. Closeups of potters wheel, hands, pots being created. Fall at pond. Romero rolls pots in pine needles and pebbles.
White Heron, The
Sarah Orne Jewett’s story of Sylvy, a solitary girl caught between the admiration she feels for a young hunter and her love of nature. She is unable to help the hunter kill the white heron.