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Under a blue, nearly cloudless sky, a summer day when he would have been painting his neighbor’s dahlias, the late Ashley Bryan’s 99th birthday was celebrated on Little Cranberry Island.
Whike kayaking the Maine coast in May 2014, geology professor Dyk Eusden '80 and his students were blown off course — and into the welcoming an magical world of artist Ashley Bryan, who died last week at age 98.
Ashley Bryan, who died Friday, was a prolific, award-winning children’s author and illustrator whose work has been displayed across the country.
Award-winning children's book author and illustrator, fine artist, and educator Ashley Bryan, widely known for his passion for poetry and vibrant retellings of folktales rooted in the Black oral tradition, died peacefully on February 4; he was 98.
People all over Maine who grew up with Ashley Bryan books in their libraries are saddened to learn the author/illustrator has passed away.