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Olive Kitteridge is an American television miniseries based on Elizabeth Strout's 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge.Set in Maine, [1] the HBO miniseries features Frances McDormand as the title character, Richard Jenkins as Olive's loving husband Henry Kitteridge, Zoe Kazan as Denise Thibodeau, and Bill Murray as Jack Kennison. [2]
Francis Kittredge Shattuck (March 6, 1824 – September 9, 1898) was the most prominent civic leader in the early history of Berkeley, California, and played an important role in the creation and government of Alameda County as well.
In 1863, a now American homesteader-settled Horizon is set upon by an Apache raid led by Pionsenay, killing several residents, including the husband and son of Frances Kittredge. A settlement boy, Russell Ganz, escapes on horseback during the carnage to alert the Army at the nearby Camp Gallant.
Olive Kitteridge is a 2008 novel or short story cycle by American author Elizabeth Strout. [1] [2] Set in Maine in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, it comprises 13 stories that are interrelated but narratively discontinuous and non-chronological. [2]
During the 1850s, Francis Shattuck and three others laid claim to four adjoining strips of land in what is now downtown Berkeley. The dividing line between the parcels claimed by Shattuck and his brother-in-law George Blake became the alignment of a new county road whose construction the Board of Supervisors assigned to Francis Shattuck, a ...
Kittredge died on March 28, 1898, only three years before Bancroft. [3] His nephew Alfred Stearns succeeded Bancroft as principal of Phillips Academy in 1903. [14] Bancroft was a member of the Andover Village Improvement Society. He worked to preserve the society's first piece of land, Indian Ridge, in the 1890s.
Havens was the last direct descendant of Berkeley founder, Francis Kittredge Shattuck, [6] and built the house with part of his inheritance. Havens wanted a beautiful private home suited for entertaining guests, listening to music, displaying his collection of antique Asian art, and playing badminton in a courtyard with large amounts of plants.
In 1905, the library moved to a new brick building on Shattuck Avenue at 2090 Kittredge Street. The new library was funded by Andrew Carnegie and built on land donated by Rosa M. Shattuck, the widow of Francis K. Shattuck.