The weather’s nice enough to start clearing out our beds. IButt’s been a long, chilly, frustrating spring. But there’s nothing like a crocus to remind you that you still don’t miss the city. Then again, you should not forget Florence White’s sage warning in Flowers as Food: Receipts and Lore from Many Sources. (My copy
I’m not sure I’d go quite that far, but another ice storm might push me over the edge. Maria Theresa Earle (8 June 1836 – 27 February 1925)was born as Maria Theresa Villiers and wrote as as Mrs C. W. Earle. She published three Pot-Pourri gardening guides starting in 1897 with Pot-Pourri from a Surrey
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Jessie L. Weston is now best known for her seminal study From Ritual to Romance, in which she argues that the entire mythos of the Holy Grail is in fact a coded memory of Celtic pagan rituals. Her theory, although largely discredited by academic Arthurian scholars, remains influential to this day. The Byrdcliffe Library contains
What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Jessie L. Weston’s Legends of the Wagner Dramas and Tristan and Iseult
Hervey White is not a man you’d be inclined to trust as a children’s book author. Instead, he was a true maverick, long before founding a colony that bore that name. Although White was one of the original founders of Byrdcliffe, his Maverick Colony broke free almost immediately, in 1905. The name Maverick was derived
What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Noll and the Fairies by Hervey White
So looking forward to reading with these other talented authors. Please come join us! No registration required, if you want to stop by live, but current NYC Covid safety protocols (mask and proof of vaccination) will be enforced.
More Fun Getting Back to LIVE Events
I took a brief detour from transcribing the Byrdcliffe Library’s card catalogue entries to search the Colony’s Guest Register for the names of writers visiting Byrdclffe, in support of an upcoming exhibition sponsored by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. As is so often the case when researching old libraries and old archives, I stumbled into a
What They May Have Read at Byrdcliffe — Mystery Edition
Thank you to everyone who has followed my new site! As promised, here’s a new Watson and Doyle story — not to mention a vintage recipe for cranberry aspic, just in time for the holidays!
Please come join us LIVE at Hoboken Public Library’s Pumpkins and Pages Bookfest, in Church Square Park, Saturday, Oct. 2, from 11-4. My book talk is at 3 — and who knows what I’ll be talking about.
So excited to be reading LIVE with these talented authors. Please come join us on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 11 am to 4 pm.
Reading and Signing LIVE at the Hoboken Library on Oct. 2!
In Our Lady of the Serpents, Petrie Harbouri weaves acutely observed characters, a profound understanding of ancient myth, and a perfect ear for the rhythms of nature into a masterful meditation on life, death, and human passion. Just as the mountains and sacred springs of the Greek landscape embody Greek myth, Harbouri’s tale takes the
What I’m Reading at Byrdcliffe