Eastman, Elaine [Goodale] () Missionary Teacher among American Indians Born in Mount Washington, Massachusetts, Elaine Goodale and her younger sister, Dora, wrote poems about their lives. In , when they were ages 13 and 10, they produced Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children. At age 20, Elaine took her first teaching post at a missionary school for Indians at blacks, in Virginia.