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From the composition book…
Published: 2010-09-07 20:41:47Saturday morning … sitting alone at the kitchen table … nothing much going on … looking out the window … watching the bend in the creek and the bend in the path that leads up to the bend in the ridge I can’t see but know is there … opening my...
Read MoreImagining a one-book library
Published: 2010-09-03 19:45:44The feedback (mostly email) from readers to recent columns regarding books in general, book shelving strategies, and bookplates has been both surprising and interesting. It encourages me to proceed in that vein. Down the line, we might consider public li...
Read MoreBook lovers and our new bookplates
Published: 2010-09-03 19:00:34Several weeks ago, I devoted a column to the complicated science of book shelving. Not a few readers responded — often with descriptions of their systems, which they deemed infallible. Shelving by fiction and non-fiction and leaving it at that seems so...
Read More‘Robinson Kephart,’ editor of adventure books
Published: 2010-09-03 16:25:20My weekly deadline is looming. I’m not sure how this is going to turn out. But I’ve been thinking about it, and I’m fairly sure it’s going to be a rambling essay about Horace Kephart, author of Our Southern Highlanders, Camping and Woodcraft, and...
Read MoreThe calm of a winter’s night
Published: 2010-09-03 15:49:11It’s Saturday night as I write this .... going on toward midnight. I read the thermometer mounted outside the kitchen through the windowpane with a flashlight. 30-degrees. Not bad. A light frost is forming on the grass in the pasture. I recall, somewha...
Read MoreAdmiration, maybe, but no love for the boar
Published: 2010-09-03 14:32:25Numerous non-native plants have been introduced into the southern mountains during the last century or so. Many are now classified by wildlife biologists as “exotic pests.” Few would argue that kudzu does not fall into this category. And without doub...
Read MoreKephart’s persona was well crafted
Published: 2010-09-03 14:06:36Our consideration of “books and all things related” continues with a look at an instance when a well-known author (and former librarian) chose to disguise his reading so as to create a literary persona. Horace Kephart was often guarded, sometimes eva...
Read MoreRemembering when books were magic
Published: 2010-09-03 12:43:42We’re still at it—considering books and related matters like shelving strategies, bookplates, home libraries, favorite books, and “How do we go about discovering the next book we’re going to read?” This could go on forever. This week, not havin...
Read MoreIconic drugstore to interesting bookstore
Published: 2010-09-02 17:41:49We’re been considering books and related matters like shelving, bookplates, home libraries, favorite books, and (last week’s topic) — “How do we go about discovering the next book we’re going to read?” This week we’re going to do something ...
Read MoreCelebrating Kephart, and his teacup
Published: 2010-09-02 15:38:00This past weekend marked the second annual Horace Kephart celebration in Bryson City. There was a terrific presentation of newly surfaced George Masa photographs moderated by Masa biographer Bill Hart. Daniel Gore brought his band from Washington State t...
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