Hæc olim meminisse juvabit-- In time to come you will enjoy recalling these things.
An archive of personal material related to the endeavors of Rocky Stinehour and The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, The Meriden Gravure Company of Meriden, Connecticut and some of the gifted individuals who touched their world.
The Visions of Mary
9 1/4 x 7 inches; 26 pages. 350 copies bound in beige paper over boards. Designed by Roderick Stinehour.
Lunenburg, Vermont; Privately printed, 1972.
This is No. 570 in A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years
Celebrating the 90th birthday of Rocky Stinehour, born in Montréal on 21 March, 1925.
Rocky's relationship with Dartmouth College has been fruitful and enduring. In 2013 the Baker-Berry Library mounted the exhibition, Designed and Printed at The Stinehour Press, following Rocky's gift of the Press' business papers to the College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Read more about the exhibit here, and an interview with Rocky here.
In June of 1947, upon being discharged from the U.S. Navy after four years as a fighter pilot, Rocky took a job with the Connecticut Valley Air Service in Whitefield, New Hampshire. The business closed it doors in early 1948, shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Maguire. Another vocation awaited him, however, as he was to find employment in the shop of one Mr. Bisbee in Lunenburg, Vermont, and enter Ray Nash's Graphic Book Arts program at Dartmouth College by the end of the summer.
Printing as a Way of Life, Rocky Stinehour & The Stinehour Press
by Elton Wayland Hall
