Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom

Our Seventh Grade teacher in Bristol, New Hampshire challenged those of us who went out of town to seek our futures to return at some time to share what we had learned. I became a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and began with a couple of insignificant jobs. Then after raising five children, and enjoying my favorite job as organist/director at the Holderness School in New Hampshire, my husband Everett Nordstrom and I spent 33 years in North Carolina. There you will find my author's page under Other Writers (About Us) at Classical Voice of North Carolina. I helped to bring that service to New England after we moved back in 2004, as a co-founder of Classical Voice of New England, Inc. CVNewEng is now doing business as Performing Arts of New England with an improved format and is marking time developing additional services for performing artists, and advertising interest for business people whose customer demographics match CVNewEng clients. You will find some of my reviews at Performing Arts of Maine, Performing Arts of New Hampshire and Performing Arts of Massachusetts under the umbrella of www.performingartsne.org As Arts Advocate, you may also see my Letter to the Editor of the Portland Press Herald, July 24, 2012, with the idea to bring the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities model from NC to Maine if local philanthropists can visualize such a transformation at the Kenneth Roberts Estate in Kennebunkport. The NC model was the former home of an author, turned into a writers' retreat for published writers who are residents of North Carolina. While I watch these things come to pass urged on by others, I remain on the Substitute Organist or Organist/Director list of the Portland Chapter, American Guild of Organists. I am also compiling a book of poems written over the years, cover poem title being a double entendre when pronounced without French accent: "Unlaundered Cache." Watch for it on another About.me page.