Terry Tripp-Brown Silber (1940 - 2003)

Genre: Non-Fiction

Terry Silber, a Lewiston native (born 12 June 1940) who lived her last 25 years on Hedgehog Hill Farm in Sumner, ME (a commercial organic farm and retail shop), graduated with a degree in French from the University of New Hampshire, and worked from 1971-1978 as art director of The Atlantic Monthly magazine, leaving that position to live closer to the land in Sumner. She wrote about her experience at Hedgehog Hill Farm in A Small Farm In Maine (1988/1992) and collaborated on two other books with her husband Mark, a documentary photographer and medical anthropologist, Growing Herbs and Vegetables from Seed to Harvest (1999) and The Complete Book of Everlastings: Growing, Drying, and Designing with Dried Flowers (1988/1992). Terry Silber died on 6 July 2003. Her obituary was in the Boston Globe. The Autumn 1998 issue of People, Places and Plants contains a feature article on the Silbers.


Last Update: 07/30/2007

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