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Date: 3/15/26 10:10 am From: Sandy Berger <sndbrgr...> Subject: Re: Crip's relative is back (Fayetteville)
I should have said…I wish I had known her. Sandy On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 11:57 AM Thomas Foti <tfoti62...> wrote: > I have a copy currently in my stack to donate to CALS. You may be able to > find it in their next used book sale. My mentor, Jane E. Stern, introduced > me to Ruth Thomas, whom I had been reading for years, at my first AAS > meeting in the mid-60s. I later visited her home and may have met > Crip...memory fades. But I searched the Ark. Gazette archives and read all > her columns there. She was a major influence in my life and career. Tom > ------------------------------ > From: The Birds of Arkansas Discussion List <ARBIRD-L...> > on behalf of Ragupathy Kannan < > <0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2026 11:43 AM > To: <ARBIRD-L...> <ARBIRD-L...> > Subject: Re: Crip's relative is back (Fayetteville) > > Here is the encyclopedia article Sandy referred to in her 2024 posting. Ruth > Harris Thomas (1900–1973) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas > <https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ruth-harris-thomas-5827/> > > Ruth Harris Thomas (1900–1973) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas > > Ruth Harris Thomas was a highly regarded amateur ornithologist whose > column on birding in Arkansas was published by the Arkansas Gazette for > about forty ... > <https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ruth-harris-thomas-5827/> > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=9d3a686e-218d-4849-8298-b480188dc8ac&af_android_url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail%26listing%3Demail_signature> > > On Sunday, March 15, 2026, 11:39 AM, Ragupathy Kannan < > <greathornbill...> wrote: > > I was curious about the author and searched our group email. Found this. > > —————- > > When I was much YOUNGER in the sixties I wrote Ruth Thomas about birding. > I had three or four letters she wrote back to me and she encouraged me to > join Arkansas Audubon Society. I'm very glad I did. I'm not able to go now > for health reasons but I still have memories of AAS and members in my > heart. I gave these letters to Helen Parker to give to someone at U of A to > put in the AAS archives. I hope she was abe to get the letters there. > > Terry Butler > > > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® S2 > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Carol Joan Patterson < > <0000003a0ccbe138-dmarc-request...> > Date: 12/12/24 3:40 PM (GMT-06:00) > To: <ARBIRD-L...> > Subject: Re: Ruth Thomas “Crip, Come Home” > > What a great find! Thanks to all who shared material about this fine > person. > > On Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 09:56:39 AM CST, Sandy Berger < > <sndbrgr...> wrote: > > > Found this gem in a pile of discarded library books. You can read about > Ruth on encyclopediaofarkansas.net She was very influential in the > Arkansas’ birding world in the 50’s and 60’s and I believe was one of the > founders of the Arkansas Audubon Society. Joe Neal and Doug James are > quoted in the article. > Sandy Berger > Fort Smith > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=9d3a686e-218d-4849-8298-b480188dc8ac&af_android_url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail%26listing%3Demail_signature> > > On Sunday, March 15, 2026, 11:33 AM, Sandy Berger <sndbrgr...> > wrote: > > I have a copy. I got it either from the FS public library, or the > Northside High School library, as a discard. I absolutely love it. > > Sandy B. > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 10:57 AM Ragupathy Kannan < > <0000013b0ad14faf-dmarc-request...> wrote: > > $39 in Amazon > > Crip, Come Home: The Story of a Bird Who Came to Stay > https://a.co/d/09MMwcNf > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=9d3a686e-218d-4849-8298-b480188dc8ac&af_android_url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail%26listing%3Demail_signature> > > On Saturday, March 14, 2026, 11:08 AM, Lynn Risser <lynnkrisser...> > wrote: > > You can easily get Crip, Come Home with Abe's Books or Thriftbooks. As > one commentor said, it is an "endearing " read. It is not sentimental, but > it is, I agree, lovely. It should be reprinted. > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 10:52 AM Joseph Neal < > <0000078cbd583d7c-dmarc-request...> wrote: > > A Brown Thrasher is singing out in my yard this morning in Fayetteville. > And right on time. They nest in my yard and often show up in second week of > March. > This annual event reminds me very much of Arkansas’s most famous Brown > Thrasher – Crip, the thrasher that nested for many years at Morrilton in > Ruth Thomas’s yard. She wrote a lovely book about Crip and the ecology of > what she named Crip’s Hill. > “Crip, Come Home” was published in 1950. Sections of this book first > appeared in her columns in the old Arkansas Gazette. Her writings played an > important role in founding of Arkansas Audubon Society. > The book is out of print. But thrashers still return to our yards, as did > Crip. The book is still a great read. > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list, click the following link: > http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list, click the following link: > http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list, click the following link: > http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list, click the following link: > http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list, click the following link: > http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1 > ############################ To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list: write to: mailto:<ARBIRD-L-SIGNOFF-REQUEST...> or click the following link: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1

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