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	Sarah Messer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarah Messer (born 1966) is an American poet and author.
		She was raised in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in a house built in the 1600s that was the subject of her book Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House.
		Messer earned undergraduate and master's degrees from Middlebury College and the University of Michigan, respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Messer (233 words)

	Boston.com / Your Life / House & Home / Two-family house
		Messer chronicles both families' tenancies in alternating chapters, switching between Messer remembrances and tales of the Hatches that are rife with South Shore history.
		Messer says she learned drywall at the tender age of 10, when her father owned an old Vermont schoolhouse that had no electricity and a wood stove, and later an old Vermont mill he bought.
		Sarah Messer (right) in the backyard with her parents, Ron and Scout, and her sister Jess holding daughter Scout with son Cyrus standing.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/home/articles/2004/07/22/two_family_house (522 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously ...
		Messer alternates chapters of the book that trace the joys and miseries of the generations of Hatches who inhabited the house for three centuries with beautifully written recollections of her own family's life there.
		But in the end, Messer concludes that though her family are the rightful owners of the Red House, it is perhaps more accurate to think of them as adoptive caretakers of a dwelling that will always contain the spirit of its ancestral occupants.
		Messer (Poetry and Creative Nonfiction/Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington) elaborates the calendar of her days in and with the house, layered like a parfait between chronicles of the earlier inhabitants, who had left a rich paper legacy.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0142001058&itm=1 (993 words)

	The Anniston Star - Obituaries for Saturday
		Messer is survived by her husband, Robert O. Messer, of Wedowee; one daughter, Denise Messer Thompson, of Wedowee; one son, Robert O. Messer, Jr.
		Messer was born March 7, 1935, the daughter of L.G. and Carrie Myrtle Haynes Fetner.
		Messer was preceded in death by one son, Stephen Glenn Messer, and one brother, Floyd Haynes Fetner.
	www.cleburnenews.com /obituaries/2005/as-deaths-0618-0-5f17w3705.htm (856 words)

	The Daily Illini - Other campuses:Student tries for VJ spot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sarah Messer, a third-year media arts student, spent Nov. 6-10 in New York vying for the job in a series of contests that will be aired on national television starting Monday.
		Messer said Thursday she and the other four contestants were placed in the audience of MTV's "Total Request Live" to get accustomed to the MTV atmosphere.
		Messer said that the trip was fun, but not necessarily exotic, considering she is from Orange County, N.Y. If she is selected, she will work as a host for MTVU's spring break programming.
	www.dailyillini.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=991cbc31-b95b-4182-8b40-30229ae93f79 (380 words)

	RIO GRANDE ATHLETICS (athletics.rio.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Messer, a 5-5 off-guard, was Hannan’s Most Valuable Player in each of the last three seasons and led the squad in scoring all four years.
		Messer admitted to being nervous in the days leading up to the signing but was relaxed and relieved on signing day despite signing in front of the student body in school’s gymnasium.
		Sarah is the daughter of John and Donna McCallister of Milton, WV.
	athletics.rio.edu /print.php?sid=432 (572 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Poet remembers years spent in Marshfield's Red House
		Messer is a poet, teaching at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, with an obvious flair for historical investigation.
		During the weeks before the sale became final, it was "a nightly ritual" for Messer and his wife to join Hatch and his wife for cocktails, then dinner, then to talk about the house as Hatch remembered it from his youth.
		Kim Messer, the author's half-sister from her father's previous marriage, had been with her father the first time he visited the house.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/07/06/poet_remembers_years_spent_in_marshfields_red_house (887 words)

	HippoPress -- The Hippo -- Guide to Manchester NH
		Such is the story of the Messers and the Hatches — Sarah Messer, author of Red House, is a member of only the second family ever to call her childhood house their home.
		The Messers are almost as sprawling and disorganized as the house that came to possess them as much as they possessed it.
		Sarah’s father had been married before he met her mother and he had four children by his first wife and then another four with Sarah’s mother.
	www.hippopress.com /books/redhouse05407.html (625 words)

	Student from Scotchtown finalist for MTVU gig
		Still, Messer, who grew up in Scotchtown, was one of five finalists chosen from more than 8,000 college students nationwide for a video jockey spot on MTVU, the university version of Music Television.
		Messer is poised for what may be her first big break.
		But Messer's talent is now laced with tragedy, setting this 20-something apart from her peers.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2004/12/04/tvfinali.htm (644 words)

	Sarah Lawrence College - Poetry Festival: Student Poets Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kate plans to go on to pursue an MFA in poetry and hopes that it is always, in some way, a part of her life and career.
		He is currently a freshman at Sarah Lawrence College and in the fall of 2005, he will be transferring to Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
		At Sarah Lawrence he has studied with Suzanne Gardinier, in her first-year studies, and with Jeff McDaniel.
	www.slc.edu /index.php?pageID=3113 (1634 words)

	Desoto Sun Herald - 01/28/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From the moment this young lady opened her mouth to sing, the crowd knew they were in for a musical treat, and when she finished her song they rewarded her with loud clapping and shouts of praise.
		The third contestant, Sarah Messer, sang quietly but carried a powerful message as she entertained the crowd with the hymn, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Several crowd members sang along with the well-known song, and Messer also received a warm round of applause for her talent.
		Sarah Messer was named second place winner, and graciously accepted $75 in prize money.
	www.sun-herald.com /NewsArchive4/012805/tp2de2.htm?date=012805&story=tp2de2.htm (317 words)

	Books \| Home work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It’s a mystery Messer never quite resolves, one that is complicated by the different versions remembered by various family members.
		As Messer’s memoir sections make clear, it also encouraged the family to adopt a kind of historical dysfunction, adding a layer of Colonial craziness to their original issues of rootlessness and abandonment.
		Because Messer has managed to maneuver both ancient and contemporary crises into parallel dramatic peaks, these restoration efforts bring many of the book’s threads together and also help her come to terms with what the Red House has meant to her.
	www.providencephoenix.com /books/top/documents/03976780.asp (676 words)

	Messerville Mayor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her primary duties consist of tirelessly searching through public records, cross-indexing thousands of names and records, and faithfully recording information in the never-ending quest to ensure that all citizens of Messerville are accounted for.
		-Captain "Robert" Messer was hung in Orange County, NC in the aftermath of the Battle of Alamance.
		At some point, after the war, Christian moved to Haywood County, NC were he became the patriarch of the Messer family.
	www.cccdesigns.biz /mm.htm (1389 words)

	Descendants of John Messer
		His wife Sarah J. Messer, on July 6, 1908, applied for and was granted a pension in July of 1908.
		CHRISTINE5 MESSER (DOSHEE ALDRIDGE4, BRYANT3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born in Harnett County, North Carolina, and died in Harnett County, North Carolina.
		MARY5 MESSER (DOSHEE ALDRIDGE4, BRYANT3, JOHN2, WILLIAM1) was born 1866 in Harnett County, North Carolina, and died in Harnett County, North Carolina.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nccumber/messer.htm (1463 words)

	Sarah Lawrence College - Poetry Festival: History of the Sarah Lawrence Festival
		The Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was created by graduate student Liz Irmiter in 2004 to celebrate the many different voices that exist in contemporary poetry—from formalism to free verse, from the lyric to the narrative to the experimental, as well as the college's rich literary history.
		Working with Undergraduate students Kit Frick and Sarah Janczak, and Alexandra Grace (a graduate student) as well as faculty advisers Kurt Brown and Jeffrey McDaniel, Liz put together an event that has already become an honored spring ritual not only at the school, but for the entire New York literary community.
		The heart of the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival, and what distinguishes it from any other festival that we are aware of, is the opportunity for 32 Sarah Lawrence students (16 graduates and 16 undergraduates) to read with the invited guest and faculty poets each year.
	www.slc.edu /index.php?pageID=3908 (885 words)

	Amazon.com: Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sarah Messer did a remarkable job of bringing the Red House's history to the reader and intermingling it with her own family's lives in the house.
		The intertwining of the story of the house and the story of the Messer family is masterful, and the writing itself is so flowing that you just can't stop at the end of each chapter.
		And Sarah Messer's poetic talents are evident in the beauty of the prose.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033154?v=glance (1857 words)

	From the Fishouse: Poets: Sarah Messer
		Sarah Messer is the author of Red House (Viking, 2004) and Bandit Letters (New Issues, 2001).
		Sarah Messer Q&A discusses the formal strategy of her poem I am the Real Jesse James
		Sarah Messer Q&A on the first poem she ever wrote
	www.fishousepoems.org /archives/sarah_messer (164 words)

	The Gamecock - Freshman wins chance at MTV stardom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MTV was on campus Thursday looking for a new video jockey, and they might have found it in Sarah Messer, a first-year media arts student.
		After the tour ends in early November, Messer will be flown to New York to compete with the other 10 finalists competing to become an MTV VJ on spring break.
		After her name was announced, Messer walked up to the microphone with a short but distinct message: "Rock on, USC.
	www.dailygamecock.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=43b01b1c-0bfe-4ec1-a0c5-b3910464c808 (433 words)

	Red House - Sarah Messer - Penguin Group (USA)
		In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses.
		The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, "never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever"—still hung in the living room.
		Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780142001059,00.html (4456 words)

	JohnBMercer172WillJonesGA
		First, I will and bequeath unto my beloved wife Martha D Messer four hundred acres of land, viz the lot of land the dwelling house now stands on and the adjoining lot of land adjoining it, together with the house and beds and all the furniture and kitchen furniture.
		Second, I will and bequeath that my negroes be equally divided between my wife Martha and my children, my wife to have first choice negroes, the property so given to my wife shall be and remain her property during her natural life and after her death to be equally divided among my children.
		In witness whereof I the said John B Messer to this my last will consisting of the last two pages of paper have set my hand and seal this 9 th day of April 1859.
	www.homestead.com /whittenfamily/JohnBMercer172WillJonesGA.html (420 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sarah Messer will be at Burke's on Wednesday, November 3rd, from 5 to 6:30pm to read from and sign copies of her new book, Red House (Viking, $23.95 hardcover).
		A quirky and fascinating memoir of a childhood spent with the legacy and ghosts of a 300-year-old house.
		Sarah Messer's work has been published in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Story, and many other journals.
	www.burkesbooks.com /messer.htm (352 words)

	UNC News Briefs -- Feb. 3, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sarah Messer, assistant professor of creative writing at UNC-Wilmington, will talk about her recent book "Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Oldest Continuously Lived-In House." Author Allan Gurganus will introduce her.
		Messer’s father purchased Red House from a descendent of Walter Hatch, who built it in 1647.
		When "Red House" was published in 2004, Booklist wrote that "Messer brings a poet’s ear, an architect’s eye, a historian’s attention to detail, and her own firsthand experiences as a resident" to her alternating histories of the Messer and Hatch families.
	www.unc.edu /news/briefs/2006/020306.htm (371 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House
		She said that her father might be able to cosign a note, as she held a pad of paper in her lap and touched the end of a pencil occasionally to her lips.
		My father's name, Messer, means “knife”; my mother's, Watrouse, means “water house.” Together they were a blade sliding through water, a knife tossed in a lake, sinking fast, or a jackknife found in an outhouse.
		It would seem that the guardian haunting spirits of the place have accepted the Messers as one of the family—this being a subtle matter of the spirits' evaluation of the Messers' character and, most especially, of the Messers' sentiment towards the place.
	www.wnyc.org /books/36958 (12300 words)

	Jesse Bradford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jesse Bradford Watrouse (born May 28, 1979), better known as Jesse Bradford, is an American actor.
		Bradford was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the only child of commercial actors; his cousins are Jonathan Svec (a member of the bands Splender and Edison) and Sarah Messer, a well-known writer and poet.
		He began acting at the age of eight months, appearing in a Q-Tip commercial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jesse_Bradford (329 words)

	Desoto Sun Herald - 01/26/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		DESOTO COUNTY -- 4-H member Sarah Messer dominated the rabbit competition at Monday night's youth livestock show at the DeSoto County Fair.
		Messer won both the Grand Championship and the Reserve Championships.
		Birds entered for the show had to have been owned by the exhibitor and raised at school or at home at least 35 days prior to the show.
	www.sun-herald.com /NewsArchive4/012605/tp3de3.htm?date=012605&story=tp3de3.htm (363 words)

	University of Alabama News
		– The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series’ second event of the fall semester welcomes authors Jiro Adachi and Sarah Messer to The University of Alabama Nov. 4 when they will give a public reading from their latest works at 7:30 p.m.
		In addition to the reading, there will be a question and answer session with both authors Nov. 4 at noon in 301 Morgan Hall.
		Sarah Messer is the author of a book of poems, “Bandit Letters,” and a memoir of place, “Red House.” The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Boulevard and other journals have published her poems.
	www.ua.edu /advancement/ur/releases/anews2004/oct04/bvws102204.htm (272 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sarah Messer's Bandit Letters are an archive of rebellion: against coherence and for multiplicity.
		Her cast of elusive outlaws, who encounter the borders and borderlands of experience and identity, appear, reappear, and disappear in landscapes that conjure the Wild West, Colonial New England, and a pop-culture-strewn American present tense.
		At the heart of these poems lies an exploration of what is lost when bodies become language and, just as importantly, what is gained when words touch flesh.
	www.wmich.edu /newissues/fall2001/Messer.html (481 words)

	Author studies childhood home - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sarah Messer has published in several journals, won grants and awards, and teaches poetry and creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
		As Messer freely admits, when you start looking closely at such claims, there’s a lot of room for interpretation.
		In 1964, Sarah Messer’s father bought a house that had been (supposedly) build in 1647 and in the same family for eight generations.
	www.theolympian.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/LIVING01/60108046/1004 (771 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Arts + Events
		Sarah Messer, a poet and nonfiction writer, is the author of Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Oldest Continuously Lived-In House and a book of poetry, Bandit Letters.
		Messer will read from her work at 3:30 p.m.
		Writers, including Holmes, Messer, Brasfield, Cox and Humphreys, along with novelist Rick Boyer, Western professor of English, and Ron Rash, Western’s Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies, will participate in a Writer’s Roundtable at 2 p.m.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/03_05/03_30_05/art_lit_fest_lineup.html (642 words)

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