#LaborDay (3) Published on September 7, 2020 by Marica Mr. and Mrs. Luis Avila grow fruit and vegetables and sell them at a roadside stand in Chimayo, New Mexico, thus eliminating the “middleman’s” margin. Farmers get only about 40 cents of the consumer’s food dollar. The Face of Rural America: The 1976 Yearbook of Agriculture [Link goes to
#LaborDay (2) Published on September 7, 2020 by Marica Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social History (1983) [Link goes to Amazon. Used from$1.98] Review: Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social History presents thoughts by ten prominent scholars in American history and material culture on a new way of doing history in the
From a couple of years ago. #LaborDay Published on September 7, 2020 by Marica Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) [Link goes to Amazon. Audible version of this crappy old book is free.] That infallible source which has “multiple issues” (I’ll say!): Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans,
Every once in a while something really gets my goat. I try to have fun with it. Awful. Just awful. Published on August 20, 2018 by Marica Anna Mussmann has a piece up at The Federalist titled, “The Book World Is Getting Way Too Politicized. Here’s What To Do About That.” (Heh. Link says “trashier.” That’s funny.) It’s primarily about
The book was a book of the month book. Has some pretty good essays in it. Posts on American Voices here: https://www.bigfoodetc.com/?s=american+voices My favorite. Really. If you can spare a few minutes, read my summary of the essay. The premise is “Olson’s essay is nothing more than an exchange of six letters between the fictional
Crappy old books On the Bank Published on August 18, 2018 by Marica Civilization is a stream with banks, … . The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even
This is an interesting one. And you know this is not a political blog. But we do like history and we think there’s value in the observations of those who lived in the past. Interesting also because this was another instance of Big Dogs Jawin’–the early years of developing Missy and Rocky’s characters. This one
Have You Heard of This Woman? Published on August 11, 2013 by Marica I came across this while skimming through one of my newest– and newer (1978)– crappy old books, Webster’s Encyclopedia of Dictionaries: 12 Complete Dictionaries in One. It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man– the struggle between a proud mind and an empty
Some ideas on active and passive near the end. WAKE UP, AMERICA! Published on August 10, 2015 by Marica Lyric by George Graff, Jr. Music by Jack Glogau. Published by Leo. Feist, Inc., New York. Copyright MCMXVI. (That’s 1916, for folks who don’t speak Roman.) Believe it or not, this image– on a piece of sheet music I
Stark Summer: A Novel of Correlated Incidents (James Robert Peery, 1938) Over the next couple of days I’m going to post enough content to make up for lack of same so far this summer. Hope you enjoy and I’d appreciate feedback. Also, I need $200 to buy Peery’s second book, God Rides a Gale, so
The “As Someone Once Said” callouts of Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School were a lot of fun to write. Challenging! But a lot of fun. The work begins, of course, with finding just the right quote for the ol’ hippy dog, Gilbert to share with Missy and
Mr. Big Food’s compilation of recipes is titled The Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourishing Guide. It has tens of thousands of recipes he’s culled from his collection of old cookbooks. But in addition to the recipes, he’s also preserved a lot of information and history on food that those old cook books contained. Here’s
This is from “Chapter VII: Peter Rabbit.” Gilbert stops by Aubrey and Little Tommy’s home in the shed while Aubrey was reading Peter Rabbit aloud. She stumbles and has to sound words out. Gilbert offers to read, and does so beautifully. When he’s finished Aubrey and Tommy clap and thank him, then Aubrey sends Tommy
I’m doing some research and stumbled across this in The Junior Book of Authors Second Edition Revised (Kunitz and Haycraft, eds., 1951, 1st 1934). FYI Kunitz was incredible prolific: https://gab.com/Marica/posts/107673594698487121. For some odd reason, I don’t have the original first edition of this crappy old book (need to fix that order placed but it’s coming from the UK)
Because I always do exactly as I am instructed to do, I am sharing this (cough) crappy old book with you today, Mass Formation Psychosis Day. Mass Formation Psychosis is nothing new. (How arrogant we are, thinking that after all these many years we in the 21st century have come up with a new behavior?)
Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of farm Dogs Starts a School (2021) is so much more than an endearing family story. It’s also a place for children and their grownups to learn! From the Introduction, “A Letter from Marica to you” “I hope you make some new friends here at Miss Missy’s School! Before
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