This is a calligraphy I made for Gretchen. The little red campbelow my camp on the Machias River belonged to Charles MacMullen from Camden. Gretchen and I canoed up theriver one day and stopped at Mac’s camp on the way to Getchell’s Rips. Mac was entertaining Maine author John Gould (Farmer Takes a Wife, The Fastest Hound Dog in the State of Maine, The Jonesport Raffle, Stitch in Time) I told him that Gretchen and I were to be married and somewhere in the conversation the saying Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, came up. John said that the saying properly ended with…and a silver sixpence in her shoe, he produced a silver sixpence and gave it to Gretchen. She had it in her shoe at the wedding and I did the calligraphy later. I don’t know what happened to the sixpence through the years but. I’ll get another one and stick it on This is the end page of a book I illustrated for Gretchen titled: The Lion Who Wouldn’t Roar
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