Josephine Johnson Cannon
Josephine Johnson Cannon
1970 Sarah Chapman Francis Medal
For her book, The Inland Island, showing her perceptive insight into humans' damaging impact on the complex structure of the environment.
The Sarah Chapman Francis Medal is awarded for outstanding literary achievement related to any aspect of The Garden Club of America's interests.
The Sarah Chapman Francis Medal was endowed in 1964 by Priscilla Beacham Stanton (Mrs. Otis Cook Stanton), The Garden Club of Buzzards Bay, Zone I, in memory of her mother, Sarah “Sallie” Dimon Chapman Francis (1874-1962), GCA member-at-large. The medal was created by Allison Macomber based on a design by Susanne S. Underwood, Garden Club of Buzzards Bay.
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