Dearest Minnie is a strong narrative-driven creative history which brings to light a typical sailor’s life on the "USS Virginia" during Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet cruise of sixteen battleships around the world in 1907-1909. This story chronicles not only the cruise itself, but the social and political climate of that time in each port where the ships re-coaled. The story is told through picture postcards vividly portraying this world event sent from a sailor to his sweetheart that lead to a proposal of marriage.
Extensive research, the colored postcards and the actual words written by the sailor creates a fresh approach to history. This book is a book that will appeal to those who have an interest in American history, military history, postcard collecting, geopolitical interest, and romance.
Their journey is over, but now, a more important one begins. I hope you will join me in launching their story.

Dearest Minnie, a sailor's story: Travel with Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet 1907-1909

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The Forgotten Artist: The Story of Evylena Nunn Miller

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Much of the evidence of women's struggle for recognition in the arts has disappeared and so have those who have taken part in them. In the 21st Century, with women comprising 50 percent of the professional artists, we cannot afford to neglect the achievement of this segment of the population.\nLeslie Compton introduces you to one of those women, her Great-Aunt, Evylena Nunn Miller through her new book, The Forgotten Artist. 
Thomas Moran, one of America’s early artists, wrote that he believed “emotion was a key factor in the creative process—an artist’s business is to produce for the spectator of his picture the impression produced by nature on himself.” 
Lena "Evylena" Nunn, was born on July 4, 1888, in Mayfield, Kansas relocating to Santa Ana, California with her family in 1903. Maturing as an accomplished painter, she became a leader among her contemporaries, eager to help artists by establishing scholarships, creating new venues for exhibitions, lecturing, teaching and lending impetus to women's organizations so they would be recognized among the male dominated artistic community. 
Her paintings are her view of the world that she embraced as well as her view of life. She mirrors her philosophy of life in her depiction of nature. For Evylena, her life force was her faith and her paintings were acts of faith. She employed the content and symbolism of religious tradition as a source of inspiration. This dynamic woman was a leader among her contemporaries, eager to help other artists by establishing scholarships, creating new venues for exhibitions, lecturing, teaching, and lending impetus to women’s organizations so they would be recognized among the male dominated artistic community. 
Among her many achievements, Evylena became the youngest artist to have a painting accepted by the Smithsonian Institution. 
“How may we measure Evylena’s contribution to painting? By her poetic record of California’s landscape, by the lives of the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, or by paintings of the Holy Land? These were all created with the heartfelt sincerity that God’s hand had created, this magnificence while her brush endowed her painting with the integrity of her faith.” —Mary Anne Lyles, Ph.D., and Leslie Jean Compton, author 
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Evylena Nunn Miller, Women Artist ,Biography, Western US Biography, Arts & Photography Artists / Painters Women Artists, Individual Artists, History (1920s-1960s) 
“How may we measure Evylena’s contribution to painting? By her poetic record of California’s landscape, by the lives of the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, or by paintings of the Holy Land? These were all created with the heartfelt sincerity that God’s hand had created, this magnificence while her brush endowed her painting with the integrity of her faith.” —Mary Anne Lyles, Ph.D., and Leslie Jean Compton, author

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