The first three titles in The Snowy Series establish the author's settings and intentions for these books.
For fun! There are multiple TRIVIA QUIZZES, based around the first four titles in this series
Lifestyles
From: THE CHEERLEADER
We first meet Snowy and her friends during their high school years—the mid-1950s. The Lifestyles page will introduce you (or bring back memories!) of life in a medium-sized city enjoying the many advantages of the post-World War II American way of life.
Links to several of Ruth's reflections as she thinks back to her own childhood and young-adult life in this post-war era are:
A short list of reference books is provided on the Lifestyles page.
Places
From: THE CHEERLEADER Gunthwaite Tour
Familiar New England locations were Ruth's primary inspirations for the totally-fictional settings in The Snowy Series books. In 2000 Ruth took two of her associates who were assisting her in the details of marketing the earliest titles on a tour of many places that inspired some of the fictional Guthwaite's locations. The original photographs, with commentary are available again, here in the Gunthwaite Tour.
From: SNOWY
In SNOWY we first become reacquainted with Snowy in her college setting—the actual Bennington College. On the Places page you can see maps, a few of Ruth's own photos from her time there, and a photo-essay created by Jen Davis-Kay when she visited the school on her own.
From: HENRIETTA SNOW
Fire towers are places that help to set some of the scenes in HENRIETTA SNOW.
Shorter Than a Novel,
Longer than a Postcard
Ruth Doan MacDougall has been writing professionally for more than 60 years. She is the author of eighteen novels, numerous essays, travelogues, and book reviews as well as collaborating with her father, author Daniel Doan on a series of hiking guide books and a nonfiction guide to an area in New England known as the Indian Stream Republic. She maintains a weekly column on her Facebook page where she interacts with readers who respond to her articles.
Many of the essays, travelogues, and reflectons that she's written for various purposes over the years are reproduced here on the website in the "Shorter Than a Novel, Longer Than a Postcard" section.
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