In the college town of Oberlin, Ohio (1950 pop. 7,062), neighbors knew Alice Cowles Little as a dear old maiden lady with a sharp memory and a penchant for collecting. Her memory, even after more than half a century, still warmly cradled the color and sound of the faraway Pacific islands that she visited as a young missionary for the Congregational Church. Her collections—sea shells, bits of pressed vegetation, samples of earth and coral—cluttered her antebellum house on Oberlin's East College Street, where she lived quietly the last 50 years.
But meticulous...
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