Added onto RaintreeCounty.com as of September 2008 --the most recent items posted are on top-- To Site Map ~ --Taxes in the Shade of the Raintree, J. Fred Giertz. No one should conclude that taxes drove Ross Lockridge Jr. to suicide. However, tax concerns were a source of his distress that was magnified by his depression.
--Short Bio of the Novelist Ross Lockridge, Jr.
--Early notice: An exclusive unabridged AUDIO EDITION of RAINTREE COUNTY is in the works via Blackstone Audiobooks, publishers of Oregon. We do not yet know who the reader will be nor the date of release but the edition is expected to be available in traditional formats and downloads.
--A new edition of Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr., foreword by Herman Wouk, published by Chicago Review Press.
--"Seed of the Raintree: Raintree County and Postwar Environmental Fiction, 1945-1960" by Fred Waage, as presented at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), held Wofford College, June 2007.
--An in-depth and entertaining analysis by Ross Care on the Raintree County movie score by John Green, first published in Performing Arts--Motion Pictures, the Library of Congress, 1998, and is reprinted here with additions and a new introduction. To complete analysis see Care's liner notes booklet for the recent 2-CD Film Score Monthly release of the RAINTREE COUNTY soundtrack.
--The two week Festival Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Release of the MGM classic film "Raintree County" began in Danville, Kentucky on July 24, 2007 with an Opening Night World Premiere of A Jarful of Fireflies, an original comedy about the filming of Raintree County. FOR DETAILS see the full 2-week Schedule of Events!
--Johnny Green's masterpiece, the score of Raintree County, has been released by Film Score Monthly: a double CD remastered from the original tapes including the premiere release of Nat King Cole's MGM orchestral vocal of the title song; 26 pages of liner notes; 21 images; generous SAMPLE LISTENING on the Film Score Monthly release page.
--"Festival to commemorate filming of 'Raintree County'", The Advocate-Messenger, Danville, KY, August 6, 2006
--Read the Louisville Courier-Journal about the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Film.
--Raintree County movie MUSIC reviewed by Ross Care
--I will never be converted again, Brother Jarvey. --Esther Shawnessy. The Reverend Lloyd G. Jarvey -- ten passages from Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
--Black had builded this republic. -- passage from Raintree County
--Book, "Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait" by George T. Blakey is the story of the New Deal program that produced the first guide to Indiana, under the guidance of historian Ross Lockridge, Sr.
--The world is still full of divinity and strangeness, Mr. Shawnessy said. -- a "sunbeam" posted for May Day from the novel Raintree County.
--Concerning American Politics (1872 / 1892) -- PASSAGES from Raintree County
--Stephen V. Russell's Raintree County Movie Memorabilia with a Remembrance.
--Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr., recognized as one of "top ten authors' first books". See Stone Reader about a film documentary that follows a quest to find a long out-of-print book, The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman. Click "ENTER" and select "discussion board". Raintree County discussions on-going.
--From the unpublished Dream Section of Raintree County: the ninth and concluding "dream" complete (pp. 306--356 of the original volume V). Background reading is recommended: three pages about The Dream Section, from: SHADE OF THE RAINTREE, by Larry Lockridge.
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. is voted by Monroe County Indiana residents into the Monroe County Hall of Fame; announced Jan. 14, 2003.
--"The Lake Gang", photo, 1941. Thanks to Nota and John McGreevey, and also Alice Binkley, most of the people shown are identified.
--"War, said the Perfessor, is the most monstrous of all human illusions." -- A PASSAGE from Raintree County
--Johnny Green's Music for the movie Raintree County: Ross Care posts his complete essay (first in Performing Arts--Motion Pictures, Library of Congress, 1998). To a few excerpts.
--Barriers Burned Away--"The gilt words were stamped into a green cloth binding." (Facsimiles, Passages)
--Photo: Life in a log cabin--Ross Lockridge & Vernice Baker, 1937
--The unpublished Dream Section of Raintree County: the first "dream" complete (pp. 1-47)
--an Outline of The Dream Section, by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
--The Snake Pitby Mary Jane Ward, cousin of Ross, Jr.
--Ross Lockridge, Senior, historian and author; books listed w/ images
--Other Raintree Countybook cover images: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, BOMC
--Recent acclaim for novel, Dick Cady
4 images related to the movie:
--Liz Taylor on Location, summer of 1956
--Eva Marie Saint--on the set
--Monty Clift and Eva Marie Saint on Location, summer 1956
--Monty Clift and Liz Taylor in Character--Facsimiles of Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s Notes on James Joyce, Sept. 1942 (371 k), and Spring 1943 (429 k).
--Joyce and Wolfe in the life of Ross Lockridge, Jr. by Larry Lockridge, from: Shade of the Raintree
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. Notes on Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. Notes on John Dos Passos
PASSAGES from Raintree County :
--"We pumped a cold fifty thousand into his campaign fund." -- the profane financier Cash Carney and The Great Strike of 1877.
--Hard roads and wide will run through Raintree County, and its ancient boundaries will dissolve. People will hunt it on the map, and it won't be there.--Source Materials: Illustrated Historical Atlas of Henry County, Indiana 1875
--Piano music for "The Song of Raintree County." Robbins Music Corporation's 1957 sheet music publication in facsimile. (216 k)
--An Album of RAINTREE COUNTY --7 images (607 K)
--Ross Jr., first known photo, aged one, 1915 (98 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1923 (156 k)
--"Rhapsody in Words," an engaging short piece, written on Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s twenty-third birthday.
--Planning notes for "The Dream of the Flesh of Iron", poem by Ross Lockridge, Jr., drafted in his mid-twenties, 1938-41. Facsimiles.
--Malcolm Correll & Ross Lockridge, Jr., 1937. (176 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr., publicity photograph, 1947 (156 k)
--Poem, "A Summer Dream," by John W. Shockley
--John Shockley with his students in Straughn, Indiana, 1893 (176 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Sr., in a characteristic pose photo (234 k)
--Ross, Jr., as President of Chess Team 1935-1936. photo (117 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s attention to details of historic accuracy: as an example, the phase of the moon for the night of July 4, 1892, for the passage: "At the intersection of the two roads, he looked west." (p 1058 of Raintree County.)
--Susannah Duke (1844-77) photo, (59 k)
--Chronology of some Historical Events with Bearing on the Story of RAINTREE COUNTY
--John Shockley with siblings including Elisha Shockley in Civil War uniform.
--Town of Waycross, drawing by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
--Sketch by Ross Lockridge, Jr. :Danwebster Graveyard as conceived (on draft ms) by the author for the image of the Danwebster Graveyard.
--Raintree County Character Sources: From "Book of Miscellanies" botanical recipes on Cathartics; and Reasons for believing, by William B. Shockley (1801-76).
--Ross, Lockridge, Jr. letters from Paris--seven of the 33 letters that survive from his year at the Sorbonne, are now published here in facsimile (21 pages) including the "idea-genesis of Raintree County". Ross, Jr. passport picture, age 19, taken for this journey, 1933-34.
--Photos:
--Poets Longfellow and Lockridge, May 1941
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. Writing in his outdoor office, Summer, 1942.
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. walking the countryside -- Bloomington, Ind. 1942
--Ross, Jr. with Ernest at the River Charles, Boston, Oct. 31, 1942.
--Vernice Baker, shortly before her marriage to Ross Lockridge, Jr., 1937.--The biography, Shade of the Raintree FREE: for readers, teachers, students.
--Raintree County Character Sources: Facsimiles of poem: "Tobacco" by William B. Shockley (1801-76), p. 1: p. 2, p. 3.:
"Some do it chew and some it smoke
whilst some it up their nose do poke." Character, TD Shawnessy.--Raintree County Character Sources: "'Tis Summer and the days are long"--poem by John W. Shockley.
--Raintree County Character Sources: Facsimile of letter from John W. Shockley to Emma Rhoton, May 5, 1877.
--Golden raintree in full bloom at the Lockridge home, Summer 1962.
--Now published by the Indiana Historical Society: Pride and Protest: The Novel in Indiana, by Jeanette Vanausdall.
--Two collections of essays now in print: Midwestern Miscellany XXVI (Spring 1998); and Myth, Memory, and the American Earth: the Durability of Raintree County.
--Essay: THE SOUTHERN MYTH IN ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR.'S RAINTREE COUNTY, by Patricia Ward Julius.
--Essay: THE EPICISING POET IN AMERICAN FICTION, By Leonard Lutwack.
--Essay: BLURRED BOUNDARIES AND THE DESIRE FOR NATIONALISM IN ROSS LOCKRIDGE'S RAINTREE COUNTY by Dean Rehberger
--A BRIEF SYNOPSIS ON ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR. (updated)
--An analysis of the movie score by John Green is released; written by Ross Care, Performing Arts--Motion Pictures, The Library of Congress, 1998.
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