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Ann
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Poetry and Watercolors |
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Ann Day is a poet and watercolorist. She is an art historian and was
formerly Curator of Education at the Museum of Art at the University
of Utah. Ms. Day has given lectures on art history in New York, New
Jersey, Utah and Iowa, as well as for art tours in France. She
currently lectures at Lifelong in Ithaca, New York She and her husband, Dr. Donald Mintz, a retired college professor and musicologist, live in Trumansburg, New York. Ann Day was born in 1927 in Malta, where her father was an officer in the British Royal Navy. She spent her summers and the first years of the war at La Haule Manor on the Channel Island of Jersey, the home that was the seat of her grandfather, R. R. Marett, Professor of Anthropology and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. She came to America in 1940 with some four hundred other refugee children on a ship chartered by an American great uncle. Ms. Day received her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College. Ann Day has recently published a book of poems entitled We Have Saved What We Can." Read a recent article in the Ithaca Journal about a poetry reading given by Ann Day and describing her recent book. |
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