Got home yesterday afternoon from the bigger town a fer piece down the road just as the snowflakes started. Deep In The Heart Of Texas! Looks like today’s a day of frozen rain and sleet (what’s the difference?). Got everything we need so we can stay home and stay warm. Only concern is ice laden …
Books Bygone: The Miracle VineMarica Bernstein Channing Cope is a farmer, farm radio commentator, speaker, and a newspaper columnist who writes about farming and rural life. Front Porch Farmer (1949) So begins “About the Author” on the inside flap of the dust jacket for Front Porch Farmer (1949), a book about how to achieve “permanent …
COVER: Paul Klee had the kind of innocent magic that could evoke a wistful human face from the simplest of geometric forms. In Senecio he does it with circles for head and eyes, a straight line to suggest a nose, and two tiny rectangles where one would expect a mouth. “It is not my task to reproduce appearances,” he once wrote in his diary; “for that there is the photographic plate … but my faces are truer than life.”
Who is your favorite “humbler poet?” The Day is Doneby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The day is done, and the darknessFalls from the wings of Night,As a feather is wafted downwardFrom an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the villageGleam through the rain and the mist,And a feeling of sadness comes o’er meThat …
Books Bygone: “Much that is of Value”Marica Bernstein The child of the fourth reader grade has a wide enough vocabulary to be able to understand the larger part of standard literature. As to his psychological development at this period, he is always interested in such stories as the Greek and Norse mythology contain. Much that …
He gave them a brief relation of all the adventures that had befallen him. First published in 1808, mine is the Platt & Peck Co. edition from 1902. An excellent introduction to the classic for kids who haven’t yet mastered their Greek. Originally published at bigfoodetc.com on August 10, 2021
I see people are having trouble commenting. I am working on it. Just comments as posts as Marcia has done.
I still can’t reply. But was wondering what year your Kipling was published and how old you were? What drew you to that book? Do you still have it?
Books Bygone: “Pride of Ownership”Marica Bernstein Shopwork on the Farm by Mack M. Jones (1945) “should be valuable to farmers” concerned about the upkeep of machinery and equipment, but it is a textbook “intended primarily for the use of vocational agriculture students and other farm youth, who will be the farmers of tomorrow, and for …
