Michael Nesmith aunts, and grandmother. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphical design and developed very good secretarial skills, including shorthand and, auspiciously, touch typing. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. She died a few months later, aged 56. Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, aged 6. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he nevertheless participated
The Garden (Michael Nesmith album) The Garden (Michael Nesmith album) The Garden is Michael Nesmith's 11th full studio album and was released in 1994. "The Garden" is a companion release to Nesmith's 1974 album/book, "The Prison". Both "The Garden" and "The Prison" are written to have the music complement a novel included in the release (also written by Nesmith). "The Prison" and "The Garden" were re-released together on CD in 2004 by Video Ranch. The idea is for listeners to read the novel while simultaneously listening to the recording. Even though "The Garden" was released on Nesmith's record company, Rio Records, the novella/album concept was