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Paula Brown

Paula Jacqueline Herrick Brown was born on September 17, 1927 in Oberlin, Ohio. She was the second child of Donald and Kathryn (Beery) Herrick, and her father was city manager of Oberlin. Subsequently, the family lived in several small towns in Michigan, where Don Herrick was an itinerant engineer with the WPA. During World War II the family lived in Rockville, Indiana. When Mr. Herrick was sent overseas the family lived with Kathryn’s parents in Detroit, where Paula graduated from Redford High School, then attended Albion College. While at Albion Paula was injured in an automobile accident, which left her with a badly broken leg and a lifetime of pain. She transferred to the University of Chicago when the family moved there. At Chicago she Paula Jacqueline Herrick Brown was born on September 17, 1927 in Oberlin, Ohio. She was the second child of Donald and Kathryn (Beery) Herrick, and her father was city manager of Oberlin. Subsequently, the family lived in several small towns in Michigan, where Don Herrick was an itinerant engineer with the WPA. During World War II the family lived in Rockville, Indiana. When Mr. Herrick was sent overseas the family lived with Kathryn’s parents in Detroit, where Paula graduated from Redford High School, then attended Albion College. While at Albion Paula was injured in an automobile accident, which left her with a badly broken leg and a lifetime of pain. She transferred to the University of Chicago when the family moved there. At Chicago she met Robert Harding Brown and they married in 1947. Because of her injury she and Robert decided to move to some place that was “warm and English-speaking,” discovered St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands and moved there in 1949. It was there that Paula began to write poetry in earnest, and also to further her talent in art; enamored by the ruins of the sugar cane plantations and the bustling island scenes, she created pen and ink drawings, sometimes highlighted with water color washes. While pregnant with her third daughter she traveled throughout Europe on a painting journey. She published three books of poetry, each of which contained her drawings. After her divorce in 1959, she supported the family with her painting and book sales and by starting The St. John Tutorial School, a one-room schoolhouse with as many as 30 students. She spent 20 years in the Virgin Islands, flying to Puerto Rico to give birth to each of her three daughters. In 1968 she moved to Illinois to continue her studies at the University of Chicago then, once again finding winter weather too painful to bear, moved to Southern California, where her brother lived, then to Florida. In 1980 she moved to Oregon, to be where two of her daughters lived. After Paula passed away in 2005 her ashes were buried with her eldest daughter's ashes on her mother's grave near Gallow's Point on St. John. ...more

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