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The Biography Photos / Postcards RC Source & Facsimiles Suicide & Prevention Movie & Score

RAINTREE COUNTY Home Page--Contents, PLUS:

--Pablo Neruda: "I WISH THE WOODCUTTER WOULD WAKE UP", Translated by Robert Bly
--Short Bio of the Novelist Ross Lockridge, Jr.

Recent Acclaim for Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s 1948 novel -- 12 excerpts with 4 unabridged reviews:
--Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
--Marcia Abramson, Detroit Free Press
--Darshan Maini, The Tribune
--David Anderson, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature and Culture

Classic Reviews From 1948 of RAINTREE COUNTY -- listing of 4 unabridged reviews:
--Encompassing the American Spirit, By Charles Lee
--Flashing Vision of America Lost and Found, by James Hilton
--Indiana Reflection of U. S. 1844-92, by Howard M. Jones
--Lockridge Novel is Lusty Comedy--Indiana Epic Has Touch of Thomas Wolfe, By Kelsey Guilfoil

--ESSAYS from the SSML's 50th Anniversary of Raintree County CONFERENCE (an SSML page with links)

--Other Raintree County book cover images: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, BOMC

THE BIOGRAPHY : SHADE OF THE RAINTREE, by Larry Lockridge:

Reviews: Shade of the Raintree, 19 excerpts with 4 full reviews:
--Kirkus Reviews, By Donald Newlove
--The Boston Globe, By Richard Dyer
--The Philadelphia Inquirer, By Donald Newlove
--Los Angeles Times, By Richard Bausch

WRITINGS SELECTED from SHADE OF THE RAINTREE:
--Contents and Selected Passages
--On the movie, from Epilogue, pp. 15--18.
--Author in the Epic, pp. 271--309

OTHER WRITINGS APROPOS BY LARRY LOCKRIDGE:
--Least Likely Suicide: The Search for My Father, Ross Lockridge, Jr.
--Biography and Enigma: The Case of Ross Lockridge, Jr.

LARRY LOCKRIDGE--SYNOPSIS ON, & OTHER BOOKS & WRITINGS.

THE NOVEL: SELECTED WRITINGS FROM RAINTREE COUNTY:

--For The Reader (and) Chronology of A GREAT DAY for RAINTREE COUNTY, July 4, I892.
--Chronology of some Historical Events with Bearing on the Story of RAINTREE COUNTY
--Dawn--MR. JOHN WICKLIFF SHAWNESSY awakens in the town of Waycross.
--Selections from Raintree County read in memory of Vernice Baker Lockridge.
--Excerpts from a reading given by Larry Lockridge, July 2, 1995 at The Poet Tree in New York.
--A postbellum litany.
--Concerning American Politics (1872 / 1892)
--War, said the Perfessor, is the most monstrous of all human illusions.
--Train doesn't know the earth it passes over.
--Summer was his season and his temple.
--The Perfessor stopped and took a drink....
--"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.
--The world is still full of divinity and strangeness, Mr. Shawnessy said.
--Black had builded this republic.
--I will never be converted again, Brother Jarvey. --Esther Shawnessy. The Reverend Lloyd G. Jarvey -- ten passages from Raintree County.

OTHER WRITINGS BY ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR.:

DREAM SECTION:
--About The Dream Section, From: SHADE OF THE RAINTREE, By Larry Lockridge,
--Selections from: THE DREAM SECTION
--an Outline of "The Dream", Ross Lockridge, Jr.

LETTERS (on facsimiles page) from Ross Lockridge, Jr. (from Paris, age 19-20, described):
--Paris: April 30, 1934 & transcribed  & Facsimile, p. 1 and p. 2 "I'm now installed at my new residence, 4bis Rue d'Ulm, Paris...."
--Oct 8, 1933 p1, 2 - "Before I give you the latest developments along the European front . . . ."
--Oct. 23, 1933 p1, 2 - "I write this letter in the gray of Paris morning . . . ."
--Nov. 3, 1933 p1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - "This is going to be a huge letter . . . ."
--Nov. 19, 1933 p1, 2, 3, 4 - "Work at the Sorbonne now promises to be very exacting . . . ."
--Feb. 10, 1934 p1, 2, 3, 4 - "Have you felt any alarm over the exasperated condition of Paris?"
--May 9, 1934 p.1 & p.2: "I'm hitting mean weather just at present in my school work . . . ."

THE DREAM OF THE FLESH OF IRON:
--On the The Dream of the Flesh of Iron, from Shade of the Raintree, by Larry Lockridge, pp. 183-90.
Selections of planning notes for:
--They Earn a Living, 2 pages notes facsimile (313 k)
--Those Who Sleep, 2 pages notes facsimile (352 k)
--The Pyre, notes facsimile (176 k)
--The Rains Come, notes facsimile (139 k)
Selection from The Dream of the Flesh of Iron:
--"The Strike"--V, pp. 122-4

OTHER WRITINGS ALSO INCLUDING:
--Facsimiles of Notes on James Joyce--Sept. 1942 (371 k), and Spring 1943 (429 k).
--"Rhapsody in Words," an engaging short piece, written on Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s twenty-third birthday.
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. Notes on Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. Notes on John Dos Passos

PHOTOS OF ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR., FAMILY, FRIENDS, ANCESTORS:   
--John Wesley Shockley with a copy of "The Indianapolis News." 
--Elsie Shockley in a college portrait, 1899.
--Vernice Baker in 1928, aged fourteen.
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. in the Bay of Naples, January, 1934.
--Ross, Jr. in Campo Santo, Genoa, winter of 1934.
--Ross, Jr. at typewriter, in his mid-twenties.   [Postcard]
--Ross, Jr. at the Old Home Place, summer of 1946.   [Postcard]
--Cousin Mary Jane Ward, author of "The Snake Pit", with Ross, Jr.
--Ross, Jr. with his father, camping in the summer of 1942.
--Ross, Jr. beside Eel river, summer of 1946.
--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)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. passport picture for his year at the Sorbonne, 1933-34. (59 k)
--Ross, Jr., as President of Chess Team 1935-1936. (117k)
--Vernice Baker, shortly before her marriage to Ross Lockridge, Jr., 1937. (98 k)
--Malcolm Correll & Ross Lockridge, Jr., 1937. (176 k)
--Life in a log cabin--Ross Lockridge & Vernice Baker, 1937
--Poets Longfellow and Lockridge, May 1941 (78 k)
--The Lake Gang 1941 (215 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. and Vernice Baker, August 1941 (117 k)
--Vernice, Larry, & Ross, Jr., January 31, 1943(98 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. Writing in his outdoor office, Summer, 1942. (98 k)
--Ross, Jr., Ernest, in Front of the Lockridge Home, August 1942 (137 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. walking the countryside -- Bloomington, Ind. 1942 (78 k)
--Ross, Jr. with Ernest at the River Charles, Boston, Oct. 31, 1942. (59 k)
--Ross, Jr. with son Larry on the boy's third birthday, summer of 1945. (157 k)
--Ross and Vernice Lockridge at the Shockley home in Straughn, (Henry County) summer of 1946
--Ross Lockridge, Jr., publicity photograph, 1947 (156 k)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr., book signing, last known photo of the author, January, 1948. (98 k)
--Elizabeth Taylor on the Raintree County movie set in Danville, Kentucky, 1956. (137 k)
--Photo, Between takes, the picnic scene, Danville, Kentucky, 1956. (137 k)
--Liz Taylor on Location, summer of 1956
--Monty Clift and Eva Marie Saint on Location, summer 1956
--Monty Clift and Liz Taylor in Character
--Eva Marie Saint and Vernice Lockridge, at the 1957 film premiere. (78 k)
--Raintree in full bloom at the Lockridge home, Summer 1962. With 6 cropped images. (333 k)
--John Shockley with siblings including Elisha Shockley in Civil War uniform. (137 k)
--John Shockley with his students in Straughn, Indiana, 1893 (176 k)
--Ross Lockridge, SENIOR, in a characteristic pose, historian, books listed (234 k)
--Susannah Duke (1844-77) (59 k)

RC SOURCES / FACSIMILES Page:
Selected Source Materials for RAINTREE COUNTY and Sketches By Ross Lockridge, Jr.
SKETCHES:
--Town of Waycross, map by Ross Lockridge, Jr. & as Published (37 k)
--Original Raintree County Map Sketch by the Author   (73k   & as Published   (65k)
--"The Riddle of Raintree County" Cover Sketch  by the Author  (77k)
--Raintree County Cover Sketch    (62k)
--Sketch by Ross Lockridge, Jr. :Danwebster Graveyard
LETTERS (FACSIMILES)
--Ross Lockridge, Jr. facsimiles of 7 letters from Paris, 1933-4 (age 19-20). Includes letter from Paris, April 30, 1934--Facsimile, (p. 1 - p. 2)  - Significance of & Transcription.
--RL, Jr. Shorthand Example    (84k)
--Article on RLJr. Gregg shorthand with samples, "Unlocking the Lockridge Diaries", by Mary Louise Gilman.
--Ross Lockridge, Jr.'s attention to details of historic accuracy & notes for moon position evening of July 4, 1892
NOTES by Ross Lockridge, Jr. (Facsimiles): On James Joyce--Sept. 1942 (371 k), and Spring 1943 (429 k).

John Wesley Shockley (character source):
--The Dance of the Bottles by John Wesley Shockley   (358k)
--Emma Rhoton and John Wesley Shockley's letters (links 4 letters in Facsimile & Transcription)
--Poem, "A Summer Dream," by John W. Shockley
--Poem, "...'Tis Summer and the days are long." By John W. Shockley

William B. Shockley (character source):
--"Tobacco", Poem by William B. Shockley (1801-76), p. 1: p. 2, p. 3.
--From "Book of Miscellanies" by William B. Shockley: botanical recipes on Cathartics; and Reasons for believing.

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Henry County, Indiana 1875

ESSAYS ON NOVEL, RAINTREE COUNTY:
(Includes Collections, and Synopsis for further reading. This Essays page includes brief descriptions of items linked)

--The Return To Raintree County, by David D. Anderson.
--Raintree County and the Epicising Poet In American Fiction, by Leonard Lutwack.
--Author in the Epic, by Larry Lockridge, From: Shade of the Raintree.
--Biography and Enigma: The Case of Ross Lockridge, Jr., by Larry Lockridge.
--Raintree County and the Power of Place, by Fred Erisman.
--The Presence of the Past in the Heartland: Raintree County Revisited, by Joel M. Jones.
--Ross Lockridge, Raintree County, and the Epic of Irony, By Gerald C. Nemanic.
--Blurred Boundaries and the Desire For Nationalism in Ross Lockridge's Raintree County, by Dean Rehberger.
--The Southern Myth in Ross Lockridge, Jr's Raintree County, by Patricia Ward Julius.
--Seed of the Raintree: Raintree County and Postwar Environmental Fiction, 1945-1960, by Fred Waage.
--Taxes in the Shade of the Raintree, by J. Fred Giertz.
--"Myth as Structure in Raintree County", an assay by David Aline.

COLLECTIONS:

--MYTH, MEMORY, AND THE AMERICAN EARTH: THE DURABILITY OF RAINTREE COUNTY, A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited by David D. Anderson. Preface & Contents.
--MIDWESTERN MISCELLANY XXVI (Spring 1998). A collection of essays observing the fiftieth anniversary of Raintree County, Edited by David D. Anderson, with Preface, Contents and Larry Lockridge's Informal Responses.

A BRIEF SYNOPSIS ON ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR., (Biography, Significance, Selected Works, Further Reading) from the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature (DML).

AWARD: THE ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR. IU FOUNDATION AWARD

SUICIDE & PREVENTION: (& last known photograph of Ross Lockridge, Jr.)
--Essay: Least Likely Suicide, keynote address, American Association of Suicidologists,1995, by Larry Lockridge, PhD.
--Prevention (link): American Association of Suicidology
--Prevention (link): American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
--Prevention (link): National Mental Health Association
--Photo: Ross Lockridge, Jr. & Vernice Baker Lockridge at MGM Studios, 1947.

MOVIE & SCORE home page:

--From SHADE OF THE RAINTREE by Larry Lockridge, on THE MOVIE

Photos, between takes:
--Elizabeth Taylor on the Raintree County movie set in Danville, Kentucky, 1956.
--Eva Marie Saint as Nell in the movie--on the set with hairdresser--
--Between takes, the picnic scene, Danville, Kentucky, 1956.
--Liz Taylor on Location, summer of 1956
--Monty Clift and Eva Marie Saint on Location, summer 1956
--Monty Clift and Liz Taylor in Character

RAINTREE COUNTY FILM DATABASE INFORMATION [Links]:

--The Internet Movie Database: Search "Raintree County" for listings.
--All-Movie Guide: Search "Raintree County" for listings.
--"The Incomparable Nat King Cole" [Not available--Info. only.]
--On the Ultra Panavision/MGM Camera 65mm project
--Gallery of Production Stills, via Wide Screen Museum

SOUNDTRACK INFORMATION:

--Soundtrack (SCORE BY JOHN GREEN): analysis by Ross Care in Performing Arts--Motion Pictures, The Library of Congress, 1998..
--Raintree County Music Reviewed by Ross Care, 2006
--Soundtrack availability news
--Piano music for "The Song of Raintree County." Robbins Music Corporation's 1957 sheet music publication in facsimile. (216 k)

VIDEO SALES [Links]:

--CDNow: for movie sales.
--Videoflicks: Search "Raintree County" for movie sales.

MEMORABILIA

--Stephen V. Russell's Raintree County Movie Memorabilia with a Remembrance.
--Movie Collector's World

BOOK ORDERS: for Raintree County

--RAINTREE COUNTY [CORRECTED EDITION] Amazon
--RAINTREE COUNTY--Used Hardcover Links

--SHADE OF THE RAINTREE--Order Indiana University Press Edition HERE
--SHADE OF THE RAINTREE Viking Penguin PAPERBACK-- to Cover Image -- Amazon.Customer Reviews & Used

--Unabridged AUDIO EDITION of RAINTREE COUNTY read by Lloyd James

--RAINTREE COUNTY in BRAILLE (# BR 10207) in 10 volumes. Listed in Braille Book Review--Jan.-Feb. 1997

 


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