Writings of Elvina Granlie McNamara
About Elvina
Elvina Granlie McNamara was a writer, artist, mother, daughter, sister and dear friend. She was born in a sod shanty in December of 1915 in the very small town of Arnegard, North Dakota. She was our mother. We are collaborating to provide this small website containing some of her poems and stories.
For our visitors, we hope it will help them to understand this type of very sensitive, intelligent, insightful, articulate and complex person even more -- and perhaps find some aspects to help them understand their own ancestors and themselves even more.
-- Carter and Teri McNamara, Faith Bellon and Renee Lowenstein
Leaves of Yesterday - Poems
As a child, she compiled some of her poems into the small booklet, "Leaves of Yesterday," focused especially on her formative years and on "finding herself," while growing up during her blissful childhood on the small farm on the prairie.
Leaves of Yesterday - Stories
She also compiled some of her favorite stories into "Leaves of Yesterday," again focused especially on her formative years.
Preface to Leaves of Yesterday
What I Think About Certain Things - Part 1
What I Think About Certain Things - Part 2
Why I Am Glad I Live On a Farm
After This Harvest - Poems
A book of her poems was published by Triangle Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas, in 1964. It contained many of her favorite poems.
Other Poems
We compiled some of our favorite poems of hers that were mostly from an adult point of view, as well.
In Memory of Charley Pickering
Learned Obedience by the Things Which He Suffered
