Katy Perry Papers, 1966-2011

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Katy Perry Papers, 1966-2011

The bulk of this collection is comprised of drafts for articles and clippings of Perry's numerous newspaper columns from 1966-2011. Also included are a few articles about Perry, as well as a biographical sketch, business card, senior thesis comparing Perry's Pieces of Earth to Thoreau's Walden, and approximately 44 VHS tape recordings of her television program, "Our Towns," dated 1995-2004.

3.5 linear feet

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Perry, Katy, 1920-2014

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Katy Perry was born Catherine Luke in Millinocket, Maine in 1920. She graduated from Stearns High School in 1938 and from Farmington State Normal School in 1941. In 1941 she married Bernard Perry and taught in Millinocket, Milo, and Whitefield, Maine. Subsequently Perry began freelance writing while living in Whitefield in the late 1940's. She began a daily interview show on WRDO Radio in Augusta in 1968, and recorded segments on local people and events. Perry later worked as a Public Relations ...