I have "Country Inns and Bed & Breakfasts Cookbook" with many quickbread
recipes ~10 banana bread recipes. One has a note that says if your
bananas are not ripe enough the bread will be dry?

There is one recipe that calls for thin slices of bananas added rather
than mashed bananas stirred in-sounds interesting.

At work at the holidays they sell slices of a pineapple nutbread that is
divine-wish I had the recipe.

This from a Massachusetts inn:

Marmalade Nut Bread

Dry:

2.5 cup flour

1 tsp salt

1/3 cup sugar

3.5 tsp baking powder

Stir dry ingredients together.
Mix in 1 cup chopped nuts.

Wet:

1 egg

1 cup orange marmelade

1 cup orange juice

3 Tbsp oil

Beat the egg and slightly stir in the marmelade, juice, and oil.

Add the dry mix to the wet mix, stirring only till dry ingredients are
moistened.

2 loaf pans.

Bake in 350 degree oven 1 hour.

Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, and remove from pans.