One hundred years ago, a letter arrived in Gardiner….
Written from Columbia University, the letter congratulated a Gardiner author on winning the Pulitzer Prize for biography. The author, who compiled scrapbooks of her family life and day-to-day goings on, dutifully pasted the letter on the next available page in her Family Log and moved right along…. Neither she nor the letter made note of the fact that that she and her sister were the first women to win a Pulitzer. In fact, as 1917 was the inaugural year of the most celebrated prize for literature, the event made little more than a tiny ripple in Laura E. Richard’s daily life. …