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	Parson Weems Biography and Summary
		Parson Weems's claim to a small place in American literary history has often seemed to rest on his having retailed the fabulous story of George Washington and the cherry tree.
		Mason Locke Weems was born in Anne Arundel County, Md., on Oct. 1, 1759.
		Mason Locke Weems(1756 – 1825), generally known as Parson Weems, was an American printer and author known as the source for almost all of the half-truths about George Washington, "the Father of his Country," including the famous tale of the cherr...
	www.bookrags.com /Parson_Weems (254 words)

	North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
		Parson Weems' Fable was painted nine years later and was to be the first in a series of paintings portraying American historical myths.
		In Parson Weems' Fable, the viewer sees a young George looking not noble or dignified, but a bit worried, as he faces his father who is demanding that he hand over the hatchet.
		Parson Weems was a bookseller, itinerant preacher, and the creator of the cherry tree legend which he wrote in the fifth edition of his book Life of George Washington, the Great.
	www.art.unt.edu /ntieva/artcurr/alsp/wood.htm (817 words)

	parson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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		Weems was the first citizen of the new American nation to become an Anglican minister.
		Weems could not take the oath because he was an American citizen and swearing allegiance amounted to treason.
		Weems wrote at least one such story about Marion, and there is no doubt that it happened, the only doubt is as to when.
	samantha.carrotware.com /default.aspx?tag=cherrytree (2569 words)

	Archives - Mason Locke Weems and the Cherry Tree Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To say that the good parson had a flair for exaggeration would surely be an understatement, but what he did have was an eye for what the reading public thrived on, and what would sell a book.
		Born in Maryland in 1760, Weems was the youngest of 19 children.
		Weems reveled in his new trade as a traveling bookseller, which he was to continue for the rest of his life.
	www.loper.org /~george/archives/2000/Feb/39.html (705 words)

	North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parson Weems' Fable was painted nine years later and was to be the first in a series of paintings portraying American historical myths.
		In Parson Weems' Fable, the viewer sees a young George looking not noble or dignified, but a bit worried, as he faces his father who is demanding that he hand over the hatchet.
		Parson Weems was a bookseller, itinerant preacher, and the creator of the cherry tree legend which he wrote in the fifth edition of his book Life of George Washington, the Great.
	www.sova.unt.edu /offlinentieva/artcurr/alsp/wood.htm (844 words)

	MSS 29/29A, The Virgil Thomson Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University.
		Parson Weems and the cherry tree / ballet by Erick Hawkins ; Virgil Thomson.
		Parsons Weems and the cherry tree : ballet / by Erick Hawkins ; Virgil Thomson.
		Parson Weems and the cherry tree : ballet / by Erick Hawkins ; Virgil Thomson.
	webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/music/vt-as1b.htm (503 words)

	Archives - Mason Locke Weems and the Cherry Tree Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To say that the good parson had a flair for exaggeration would surely be an understatement, but what he did have was an eye for what the reading public thrived on, and what would sell a book.
		This is not to say that Reverend Weems was deceitful, only that the extreme vivacity of his character was easily translated to the printed page.
		Weems reveled in his new trade as a traveling bookseller, which he was to continue for the rest of his life.
	loper.org /~george/archives/2000/Feb/39.html (705 words)

	Mason Locke Weems
		Weems was born on October 11, 1759 in the county of Anne Arundel in Maryland.
		Weems served as rector of at least two churches in Maryland before becoming a full-time bookseller by 1793.
		Weems published it in 1800, shortly after Washington's death, but the story of the hatchet and the cherry tree was not added until the version published in 1806.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Equator/6490/weems.html (423 words)

	Spinning the Revolution - New York Times
		Born in 1759 on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Weems studied medicine and then became a clergyman before abandoning his religious calling in favor of a nationalist one.
		Armed with little more than his wit and charm, Parson Weems traversed the country selling schoolbooks, almanacs, biographies and other popular literature in towns and villages from New York to Georgia.
		Weems went on to write one of the most important works of American history: a popularizing, largely fictionalized account of Washington's life that turned him into a down-home, evangelical hero for a rural and increasingly religious nation.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/07/04/opinion/04furstenberg.html?ex=1309665600&en=c83a6602378d9f0a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (702 words)

	The Moral Washington
		Weems imagined everthing from Washington's childhood transgression and repentence to his apotheosis when "at the sight of him, even those blessed spirits seem[ed] to feel new raptures" (Weems, 60).
		Weems, a parson himself, may have chosen to attach a serene religiosity to Washington as a way to provide a venerated example to the public.
		The American public may have known that Parson Weems' story of young Washington and his cherry tree rang false, but for the citizenry of the early United States of America, the idea behind the fable declared what they believed was true: Washington equaled honesty.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/gw/gwmoral.html (947 words)

	Parson Weems - Who We Are (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		he Company is named for Mason Locke Weems (Parson Weems,) a legendary independent book salesman who traveled the Mid-Atlantic and Southern states from 1794 to 1825.
		A former Anglican minister and pamphleteer, Weems is best remembered as the author of the largely "invented" biography of George Washington, which introduced readers to the fictional story of Washington chopping down a cherry tree.
		Weems’ thirty-year career has been the basis of several book-length essays, an opera, a ballet and a famous Grant Wood painting.
	www.parsonweems.com /whoweare.asp (82 words)

	Done With Mirrors
		Parson Weems and his biography of George Washington loom large in the "Lies My Teacher Told Me" industry.
		Parson Weems knew this new country of America also needed myths and glorified founders to bind it together in its diversity.
		But myths like those woven in 1800 by Parson Weems tell us who we are and what we stand for, and that tempers a great power by giving it a virtuous purpose.
	vernondent.blogspot.com /2005/03/parsonists.html (1071 words)

	Marion, Jasper, and Newton
		One day in the spring of 1779, the Parson related, the pair emerged from their hiding place beside a spring near Savannah and dramatically rescued a number of American prisoners, among them a woman and child, from a party of ten British captors.
		Weems seems to have used his imagination freely in creating that "blessed angel" of the fiery eye and brave demeanor, Sergeant Newton.
		Weems was applauded for his writing, Jasper and Newton were honored throughout the land, but Horry had just one little county in South Carolina named after him.
	ianhistor.tripod.com /rm.html (1106 words)

	Mason Locke Weems Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Weems had a remarkable ability to give the populace the untarnished heroes it craved.
		Weems wrote biographies of Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, and Gen. Francis Marion, but his fame rested mainly on The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (1800).
		The Father of His Country, said Weems, was no aristocrat "but a pure Republican." In its fifth edition, Weems added the story of the cherry tree, which soon entered the national folklore.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mason-locke-weems (412 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Weems,
		Parson Weems is chiefly known for The Life and...
		Mike Weems, CTS, MCP, Honored with InfoComm's Fred Dixon Service in Education Award; Third Annual AV Awards Banquet at InfoComm 06 Celebrates Industry Excellence.
		Weems happy for second shot: Blue Devils' catcher missed most of last season's playoff run.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Weems, (603 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Weems, Mason Locke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant bookseller, publisher’s agent, Episcopalian cleric, and a writer who became famous primarily for his biography of George Washington, in which the first appearance of the story of young Washington and the cherry tree occurred.
		“Parson” Weems, as he is commonly known, was educated in Maryland and in England, and at different times prepared for careers in medicine and the Anglican church.
		Weems returned to Maryland in 1784 and served in the parishes of All Hallows and St. Margaret’s (both in Anne Arundel county) with mild success until 1792, when he left a regular rectorship to become a writer, bookseller, and publisher’s agent.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4647 (1275 words)

	The Papers of George Washington
		This compilation image depicts the Cartoon for Parson Weems' Fable, painted by Grant Wood in 1939 [foreground], and Washington's own hand-written copy of the Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation, ca.
		For instance, we know that the tale of young George chopping down the cherry tree is a myth, created in 1809 by Parson Weems, a man who wanted to establish Washington as a role model for other Americans.
		Parson Weems' Fable of George Washington and the Cherry Tree
	gwpapers.virginia.edu /education/life/life1.html (295 words)

	Common-place: Going Dutch
		Historians of American publishing always knew Weems: his letters to Carey and other publishers, a treasure trove about early American bookselling, were published in 1929, and numerous historians of print culture have examined his bookselling career.
		Steven Watts identifies Weems as "a captain in the swelling moral militia of bourgeois culture in early-nineteenth-century America." Jay Fliegelman sees the cherry-tree story ("Run to my arms, you dearest boy") as part of America's revolution against stern patriarchal authority, a parable for the nineteenth-century culture of family sentiment.
		Weems bought the building in 1798, probably to use as his bookshop, depot, and overnight lodging.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/cp/vol-01/no-01/dutch/dutch4.shtml (1371 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mason Locke Weems (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		For 30 years after 1794 he was a traveling agent for Mathew Carey, bookseller and publisher.
		Parson Weems is chiefly known for The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (c.1800), in the fifth edition of which appears the famous cherry-tree story.
		Weems also wrote moralistic tracts, such as The Drunkard's Looking Glass (1812).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Weems-Ma.html (209 words)

	Weems - Carrie Mae Weems to Lecture
		Parson Mason Locke Weems (1756-1825) was an American printer and author known as the source for almost all of the
		Weems and Plath precision marine navigation instruments are steeped in the traditions of modern nautical navigation.
		Weems will be the final speaker of the 2004-05 Robert C. May Photography Endowment With both reverence and daring, Carrie Mae Weems challenges the
	www.erhome.com /?q=weems (206 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE LEGEND MAKER
		Parson Weems himself is something of a legend, for there are few authentic facts about his early life, and many stories.
		What Weems did was to make national symbols of his subjects, legendary giants of republican virtue and bravery for a hero-starved people, heroes of recent history for a people cut off by their own volition from their heroes of legend.
		Later Weems was forced to acknowledge his authorship when the outraged Horry repudiated the published work as a “military romance.” Weems pictured Marion as the courageous, dashingly romantic “Swamp Fox” whose republican virtues enabled him to outwit Britain’s finest generals.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1962/2/1962_2_58.shtml (4092 words)

	A tour of another time
		Mason Locke Weems was a surgeon and a parson, but his lasting legacy is the biography he wrote on George Washington, which originated many bits of lore that are still repeated today.
		Weems used the house as a bookstore, sometimes standing outside and playing the fiddle to draw customers.
		Adjacent to it is a framed print of Parson Weems' Fable, a painting by the legendary Grant Wood that depicts the childhood incident involving George Washington and the cherry tree.
	www.dailypress.com /travel/destinations/local/dp-trav_weems-bottsmay26,0,2795582.story (944 words)

	DRAM - View Detail for Parson Weems and The Cherry Tree - Database of Recorded American Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: The Parson Instructs George & Martha in the Gentle Art of the Dance
		Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: Rum is a Demon
		Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: Chopping the Tree and Winging to Heaven
	dram.nyu.edu /Objid/27208 (185 words)

	Weems-Botts Museum
		The 200+ year old museum is named after Mason Locke Weems and the man to whom he sold the house in 1802, Benjamin Botts.
		Parson Weems briefly owned the now-restored building and used it as a bookstore.
		Weems popularized the life of President Washington, including the curious anecdotes about Washington as a youth barking his father's cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie") and throwing a rock across the Rappahannock.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Equator/6490/museum.html (506 words)

	Portrait of America (1800-40) \| TIME
		Parson Weems has been remembered by generations of Americans only as the man —presumably a dust-dry, thin-lipped little pedant—who invented or at least popularized the most famous lie in U.S. history: the fable of George Washington and the cherry tree.
		Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia—between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers.
		Parson Weems wrote them at odd moments along the road—biographies of Washington, of Franklin, of Penn and—his best book—of General Francis Marion, the "little, smoke-dried, French-phizzed" Swamp Fox.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,933136,00.html (767 words)

	joannejacobs.com: Comment on Feel-good, no-think history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parson Weems made it up to teach the moral lesson that one shouldn't lie (sic).
		Posted by theAmericanist at April 26, 2004 05:47 AM Parson Weems was not using the Cherry Tree story to teach the moral lesson of not lying.
		Parson Weems did not show that compassion to his own son, with tragic results.
	www.joannejacobs.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=13992 (2050 words)

	Common-place: Parson Weems Fights Fascists
		Parson Weems, imitating Charles Willson Peale’s pose in The Artist in His Museum (1822), opens a red velvet curtain on the legendary scene: Augustine Washington, elegant in crimson coat, white ruffle, tan breeches, silver-buckled pumps, and green tricornered hat, grasps in his right hand the slim trunk of the bent cherry tree.
		Parson Weems’ Fable, ballyhooed by Time as "artist Wood’s first big canvas in three years," immediately sold to the novelist John P. Marquand for ten thousand dollars (about one hundred and thirty thousand dollars today).
		Quaint though Weems and his story seemed in the 1920s and 1930s, they hardly emerged from the conditions laid out by the influential folklorist Benjamin A. Botkin in 1934: "Folk groups are distinguished by cultural isolation.
	www.common-place.org /vol-06/no-04/biel (2713 words)

	Parson - LuckyWebs.com
		Parson Consulting is a national consulting firm focused on improving client's operational effectiveness in the areas of finance, accounting, and business
		You are Visitor, Parson Weems' Publisher Services was founded in 1997 by partners Christopher Kerr, formerly of Christopher Ward and Co., and Colwyn Krussman.
		Parson and Sanderson, Inc. is a full service manufacturer's representative the state of Louisiana and Mississippi.
	luckywebs.com /?q=parson (771 words)

	Parson M. L. Weems
		Parson Weems of the cherry-tree;: Being a short account of the eventful life of the Reverend M. Weems
		Parson Weems ;: A biographical and critical study
		A parson at large;: Being an account of Mason Locke Weems, George Washington's quaint biographer, and his relation to the American episcopate
	www.mason-defender.net /webstore/us/books/author/Parson+M.+L.+Weems.htm (96 words)

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