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Verrill Peak
Verrill is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926), American zoologist, museum curator, and professor *Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871–1954), American archaeologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator, and author *Lindsey Verrill (born 1982), American musician * Louise Brown Verrill (1870–1948), American composer *Virginia Verrill Catherine Virginia Verrill ( November 20, 1916 – January 18, 1999) was a singer in the era of old-time radio and big bands. Her work included providing the off-screen singing voices for some female film stars. Early years Verrill was born Cath ... (1916–1999), American singer Fictional characters * Jordy Verrill, in the short story " Weeds" by Stephen King {{surname Surnames of English origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison Emery Verrill
Addison Emery Verrill (February 9, 1839 – December 10, 1926) was an American invertebrate zoologist, museum curator and university professor. Life Verrill was born on February 9, 1839 in Greenwood, Maine, the son of George Washington Verrill and Lucy (Hillborn) Verrill. As a boy he showed an early interest in natural history, building collections of rocks and minerals, plants, shells, insects and other animals. When he moved with his family to Norway, Maine at age fourteen he attended secondary school at the Norway Liberal Institute. Verrill started college in 1859 at Harvard University and studied under Louis Agassiz. He graduated in 1862 with a B.A. He went on scientific collecting trips with Alpheus Hyatt and Nathaniel Shaler in the summer of 1860 to Trenton Point, Maine and Mount Desert Island and in the summer of 1861 to Anticosti Island and Labrador. In 1864 Verrill made reports on mining, or prospective mining, properties in New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania. Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, (23 July 1871 – 14 November 1954) was an American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author. He was the son of Addison Emery Verrill, the first professor of zoology at Yale University. He authored many books on natural history and science fiction works. Biography Hyatt Verrill was born at New Haven, Connecticut. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, including natural history, travel, radio and whaling. He participated in a number of archaeological expeditions to the West Indies, South, and Central America. He travelled extensively throughout the West Indies, and all of the Americas, North, Central and South. Theodore Roosevelt stated: "It was my friend Verrill here, who really put the West Indies on the map.” During 1896, he served as natural history editor of Webster's International Dictionary, and he illustrated many of his own writings as well. In 1902, Verrill invented the autochrome process of natural-color ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsey Verrill
Lindsey Verrill (born March 13, 1982) is an American avant-garde multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas who currently lives in Austin, Texas. Music career Largely self-taught on cello and upright bass before studying music at the University of North Texas in Denton, Verrill became a key component across a number of indie bands in Austin as well as a founding member of the Austin-based Annie Street Arts Collective. She has performed with Ethan Azarian, Califone, Dana Falconberry, Patty Griffin, Thor Harris, Will Johnson, Longriver, Possessed by Paul James, some say Leland, Charlie Sexton, the Weird Weeds, and Ralph White. In 2017, she traveled to Germany, France, Japan, and Canada as a part of the ATX6. In 2015, she began performing her own material seriously as part of the experimental folk duo Little Mazarn with Jeff Johnson featuring unusual instrumentation of banjo and musical saw. Verrill and Johnston started Little Mazarn performing at the iconic Austin venue Hole in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Brown Verrill
Louise Shurtleff Brown Verrill (23 March 187017 February 1948) was an American composer and pianist. Verrill was born in Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ..., Maine to Lewis F. and Mary Alice Abbott Brown. She studied piano and composition in Berlin and Dresden, then married Harry Mighels Verrill in 1895. They had five children. Verrill's music was published by Louis H. Ross & Co. Her works include: Piano *''Alone'' *''Birch Tree'' *''Chaconne'' *''Du bist wie eine Blume'' *''Exultation'' *''Four Moods of a Gnome'' *''Ghosts on Parade'' *''It Happened in Spain'' *''It is Spring'' *''Jennie Kissed Me'' *''Lonely Pine'' *''March of the Patriot'' *''Reverie'' *''Rumpelstiltskin'' *''Slumber Song '' *''Tenderness'' *''Tone Pictures'' *''Tone P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Verrill
Catherine Virginia Verrill ( November 20, 1916 – January 18, 1999) was a singer in the era of old-time radio and big bands. Her work included providing the off-screen singing voices for some female film stars. Early years Verrill was born Catherine Virginia Verrill in Santa Monica, California. Her mother, Aimee McLean Verrill, was active in vaudeville. At 5 months of age, Verrill appeared with her mother in her act. Verrill's family was friends with orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, who had Virginia sing on his bandstand when she was 3 years old. She attended Hollywood's John Marshall High School. (Another source says that she graduated from Hollywood High School.) Radio By the time she was 13, Verrill was singing on local stations, with her debut coming on KMPC in 1932. In 1934, she sang with David Brockman and the KHJ orchestra on ''California Melodies'', which originated at KHJ and was carried on the CBS network. Early in 1935, columnist Walter Winchell reported that Verr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weeds (short Story)
"Weeds" (also known as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill") is a darkly humorous short story by Stephen King. It was first published in ''Cavalier'' magazine in May 1976. Plot summary On Independence Day, a backwoods hick farmer in New Hampshire named Jordy Verrill thinks his newfound discovery of a meteorite will provide enough riches to pay off the remaining $200 of his bank loan, but he instead finds himself overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that arrives in the meteorite when he ends up coming in contact with it. It has been described that Jordy doesn't have much good luck. After a rainstorm, Jordy sees that the organism has grown roundish grass around where the meteorite struck. Not only are the plants growing on anything he touches that is wet, there are plants growing on his fingers, his left eye, his penis, and his tongue where he starts to get itchy. He can't go to his usual doctor who is out of town on a fishing trip. Upon hearing the words "cold water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
