The Song of Roland |
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Let’s focus our Isles of Shoals story this week on Roland Thaxter (1858-1932) the third son of Celia and Levi Thaxter. Roland is seen here with gun and father in hand, dressed for the hunt during a trip to
Nicknamed “Lony” the boy picked up a love for the natural world from both his parents. Fascinated by Charles Darwin, Roland graduated from Harvard and dedicated his career to botany. He and wife Mabel Gray Freeman of
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Glad to see Roland Thaxter getting some publicity. I talked to Richard Stanley about him at an ISHRA (Isle of Shoals Historical and Research Association)
meeting. Roland is internationally known as "the father of modern mycology"
and is still studied as such. He identified the fungus that caused the potato scab in
-- Mary Smith