The Woodmont Story, Hunting and Fishing and Raising Wild Turkeys in a Sportman's Paradise
Here is a story of the founding of the finest hunting and fishing club in the country. The Woodmont Story
is a complete histrory of the Woodmont Rod and Gun Club of Hancock, Maryland. Henry P. Bridges was active in the
operation of the club from 1908 through 1957. Bridges tells of the celebrities who visited the club, including six
presidents of the United States and others high ih Washington life. He also tells anecdotes connected with many of
the long-time members of the club which are entertaining and reveal much about the club's origin and history. Woodmont
has made a specialty of breeding wild turkeys, and Bridges tells much about how turkeys were bred and hunted, for he
raised 60,000 wild turkeys during his life. This book will be of interest to the many conservationist of wild game,
and they will get to know the patriarch of the man who brought the wild turkey back from extinction in North America.
Woodmont is a shining example of the good times that a hunting and fishing club can bring to its members, their
families, and their friends.
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Chicago Painting: 1895 - 1945, The Bridges Collection
This book, like the series of five exhibitions around Illinois in 2000-2001 that preceded it, is a reclaiming of the city's art
heritage from the first half of the 20th Century. The 48 Chicago-area artists included within the collection, whose paintings were
collected by Powell and Barbara Bridges of Wilmette, Illinois, worked across a spectrum of generally respresentational styles. But
the core of the book's 78 paintings are the ones with Chicago as the subject. In addition to their beauty and artistic merit, these
works are also a glimpse into the past, fragments of history and they tell a part of the story of Chicago. © Chicago Tribune,
Section 14, Books, December 12, 2004.
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In 1875, Robert Bridges enrolled at the prestigious Princeton University. From a young age it was noted that games of
the mind were young Bridges' forte, the pursuit of genius was more likely in Robert Bridges' future. Few men, like
Robert Bridges, had the opportunity to see through an insider's perspective the policies of a United States President
who was Woodrow Wilson his classmate at Princeton University. In 1887, Bridges accepted a call to become assistant
editor of Scibner's Magazine in New York City. Bridges had worked for the start up magazine called Life Magazine
and had done an excellent job to get it to it's prominence in America. Bridges lived at the University Club of New York
City. The most important literary magazine in the United States was Scribner's Magazine. Bridges quickly moved up the
ranks at Scribner's and was promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Scribner's Magazine by 1914. In 1930, Robert Bridges retired
from active editorship at Charles Scribner's Sons and moved back to his boyhood home in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1941, he died in his home having given his life to the development of the American intellectual elite culture.
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