AN INVENTORY OF A BODY OF WORK
If you wanted to convert the “zombie” blog prairiemary.blogspot.com into books about particular subjects, you would open it, arriving at my last post which is illustrated with the icicles on my eaves as a header and a piece on two writers that I wrote on December 7, 2020.
Go to the right hand column which begins with quotes from Bob Scriver, to whom I was married in the Sixties, and go down to “Search this Blog” which has a box under it. Type in the subject you want. You will get posts which can be downloaded
This morning I am working on several manuscripts that were created by entering subjects:
1. BONE CHALICE POSTS which were the preparation for a book manuscript about the liturgy of both Christian and other systems, including creative versions based on theory about structure.
2, POSTS ABOUT BLACKFEET ON THIS BLOG. The posts were written about memories, research, and books.
3, POSTS ABOUT THE BLACKFEET METHODIST CHURCH
Each category will produce dozens of pages. The blog began in 2005 and was short posts, then expanded to a routine of 1,000 words daily.
There are images in what printed out, which I didn’t expect, and most of them are from illustrations I used, but some came from nowhere!
This does not exhaust the subjects nor the blogs. Others were also zombified.
Two are about the acting professor Alvina Krause, who taught “Method” acting based on Stanislavsky. She had a profound effect on many of us, even those who didn’t go into acting. The contents of both are archived in Deering Library at Northwestern University.
https://krausenotes.blogspot.com
https://thesilvercomb.blogspot.com
This one is about Bob Scriver, the Western sculptor.
https://scriverart.blogspot.com
Others are of less interest. Some were converted into books available through Lulu.com.
https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=Mary+Strachan+Scriver
“Strachans on the Prairie” is a conversion of a photo album of my father’s photographs of his family in the early 20th century.
Blackfeet books are aids to research. https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=Mary+Strachan+Scriver
“Reservation Blackfeet”
“Blackfeet Rez Guide”
“Blackfeet Paper Trails: Bibliographies and Time-lines”
“12 Blackfeet Stories” https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=Mary+Strachan+Scriver This one is missing from the Lulu page and has escaped to the internet. One can get it through search engines. It is not myths and so on, but short stories, one for every generation, interspersed by time-lines.
“Willow Sticks” is an anthology of Blackfeet short stories for younger readers.
This book is an account of early professionalization of animal control departments. I was the first woman in Portland.
“Dog-Catching in America”
There are also bodies of periodic writing I keep at home in binders from the typewriter days before computers.
“The Scriver Seminary Saga” One page weekly from the four year education for UU ministry.
A similar manuscript is “Sarvisberry Soup” about the two years in Saskatoon.
This is only a very partial list. I put longer papers on Academic.edu and Researchgate.com. I was accumulating stories on Wordpress but they became far too complex and hard to use. I have other copies of the stories but they are not grouped anymore. They are on the theme of boys.
Boxes and boxes of sermons are on the verge of discard. I’m looking for the year I preached for the Blackfeet Methodist parish and used as a guide the yearly guide of biblical sections (Old Testament, New Testament, Gospels, and Psalms.) More on that when I find it.
There are two “proper” bound and published books:
“Sweetgrass and Cottonwood Smoke” from Moosemilk Press, Edmonton, Alta
“Bronze Inside and Out” from U of Calgary Press.
