As the young daughter of the last American vice governor general of
The Philippines, Mary Burgess attended feasts with once-notorious
headhunters, and also formal dances in Manila's ancient Malacanang
Palace. Back home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she matured in the bosom
of an old University of Michigan family. For more than two years
she entertained and comforted GIs in England and on the Continent.
endeavor and a place almost as foreign to her as London under
wartime blackout. She carved out time from motherhood and ranching
to take up painting, eventually becoming a well-known artist. and
then by his death. Her journey has continued through grief and
recaptured joy. literary ease. But her greatest asset in Both Sides
of the Canvas is her appreciation of the humorous, the painful, and
the passionate details of life.
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