Mary Helen Detmer journal , MSS 16372

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Ellen Welch

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16372, Mary Helen Detmer journal, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Provenance

Gift from Mary Helen Detmer, 4 October 2016.

Biographocal Note

Mary Helen Detmer is an author of poems about her farm in Brown Cove, Albemarle County, Virginia. She is married to Don Detmer who was the Vice-President for Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. Don and Mary Helen delighted in living on Thomas Jefferson's famed "Lawn" at UVA, where they hosted annual pumpkin-carving parties for UVA students who also lived on the lawn and where they were often awakened by shrieking students engaged in the tradition of "streaking" down the lawn.

Source:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705244/

Scope and Contents

Mary Helen Detmer journal (0.04 cubic feet), 1996 May 23 - December 10, containing entries related to her garden and her life at the University of Virginia Pavilion I.