The winning bidder can pick up this item from the Elley-Long Music Center.

Betsy Melvin has made a name for herself in Northern Vermont, with her POETIC PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPH of VERMONT, having had them sold through several different outlets for the past 40 years.  Her work has been decorating homes and offices and shipped all around this country, and, indeed around the world.

Additionally, two books of her photographs have been published with the great assistance of her now deceased husband, Tom.  ROBERT FROST COUNTRY (Doubleday '76) was distinguished to have been the first authorized by the Estate to utilize photography with Frost's poetry, and sold 50,000 copies; now out of print.

But now, ROBERT FROST'S COUNTRY (Univ. Press of New England 2000) is far better artistically and technically! You can obtain these from Betsy inscribed to you or the intended recipients at her Gallery (address listed below).

Anyone wishing to view a retrospective of Betsy's 45 year career is invited to the Fletcher Free Library through December, 2010 to view her "Once in a blue Moon Exhibit." Go and see why the Librarian selected that title! Her photograph was taken over 20 years ago, featuring a HEAT-SHAPED MOON! Included in the exhibit is her collection of "The Poetry of Trees" featuring Robert Frost's poetry.

Betsy's home gallery is open through December and located at:

The Artistic Alliance, Rt. 15 Essex Center. Please phone ahead 878-3622

After having lived and photographed in Vermont for over 50 years, Betsy plans to head to Tennessee to live hear her daughter.

Betsy Melvin's short statement of philosophy: "Take it as it is, folks. No gimmicks in this ever-changing world! Thus, at 88, I'm NOT going to do "the print-shop thing" with digital photography in photographing nature!

In '68, early on, when I was practicing moonlight photography, in my black and white days, one of my mentors, Mack Derrick, showed me how he was "sandwiching" negatives together: one, taken with a long telescopic lens, sort of a "map of the moon". For the other of his village of Orleans, he arranged with his neighbors to all turn on their lights at dusk, then he'd take that photograph with his 8x10 camera, make the sandwich and print. His final products were always HUGE wall panels, and I remember one on the wall at the Lincoln Inn in Essex Junction. When he visited me and tried to teach me his tricks, I said "No, Mack, I want to capture the mood of the moment...no tricks for me!"