or so out of college. Around that time, she also published three children's books, each in a different genre: The Cloud Bird, a fairy tale adventure, illustrated by Edith Bollinger Price, and featuring a swan, a bear, a fish and other creatures, who appear, willy-nilly, in miniature, on any part of the page in "their" chapter with Dorothy Ann, the little girl heroine whose greatest adventures were at night. Her second book Proposal Number Seven features two comedic acts, and a makeshift diagram showing children how to organize their own sets. The third was more commercial in intent, akin to Getchell's holiday and rainy day plays still to come, only Spruce Cone and Bunchberry, as it says in subtitle, is A Campfire Girls Play, with enough parts for a dozen girls, plus casting tips. Book Reviews Getchell went on to write several other children's books, and she became the full-time book editor at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in 1929. She maintained her post at the paper until 1960 when she retired. She died in 1970. Ivan Sandrof, her successor, memorialized her by writing: With Maggie Parsons went, possibly, the last of the rugged individualists ... she was old Worcester, a concentrated version, rare as an uncooked beefsteak, quick to speak her mind, highhearted, loud of voice, opinionated, fearless; once heard, never forgotten. Personal life Getchell and her sister Ruth came from a sophisticated background. Their father Dr. Albert Colby, was a "prominent specialist in throat and lung diseases, and a pioneering treatment of tuberculosis." Their mother Edith Loring Getchell (née Pierce) was a former student of Thomas Eakins, and a prominent artist with an international career whose work has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and other major institutions. One of only two to earn a B.A. from Wheaton College in 1914, the first year they were offering degrees, Getchell later attended Radcliffe. In 1921, she married Eugene Olian Parsons, garden editor for the Sunday Telegram and Evening Gazette. Their only child was Carol E. Parsons Rader (1932–2019). Bibliography Spruce, Cone and Bunchberry. A play about an unpleasant family which becomes pleasant when the Camp Fire spirit enters the home. (1916) The Cloud Bird (1916) Proposal Number Seven: A comedy in two acts (1918) Colette of the Red Cross: A play in two scenes for Red Cross juniors. (1919)