Gardening Calendar (Austin American)
"Creating the Butterfly Garden of Your Dreams." 9 a.m. to noon today. Workshop
led by Joan Calder.
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Legacy $28.95 Winston Hardegree was born in the throes of the Great Depression in 1932, but spent happy boyhood summers on his grandparents'' rural Alabama farm, where hard work and adventure led to a deep appreciation for life''s simple pleasures.At nineteen, Winston lost his father and suddenly became family patriarch for his mother, siblings, and new bride. He took a job in the local textile mill, and over thirty-five years of unrelenting hard work became a successful top-executive of this international company. Disenchanted, Winston decided to return to the simpler way of life he had so loved as a boy.Winston''s quest to reintroduce the man he had become to the boy of his youth brought about these stories of gardening, life with regular folk and beloved animals, and adventures that Winston and his wife, Beth, shared in the garden, in love, and in living the autumn and winter of his years at The Blessed Earth Farm in the rural upstate of South Carolina.This book is a compilation of essays and short stories written during Winston''s search for simplicity, and his observations on life and on death, as he faces the final days of a terminal illness.This is Winston Hardegree''s Legacy. |
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What Can a Woman Do? Her Position in the Business and Literary World $54.21 Noting that 50 years earlier, only seven industries were open to women, this book details the massive expansion in opportunities for women in both the business and the literary world. This explores through inspirational accounts the careers open to women in all professions from journalism to music to medicine to beekeeping, dressmaking, gardening, engraving, government clerks, home-makers, poets - everything from the law and medicine to stenography and the profession of elocution. Martha Louise Rayne (1836-1911) established the world's first school of journalism in Detroit in 1886. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and began a career in newspapers in the early 1860's. By 1870 she had reached Chicago, freelancing for the Chicago Tribune. In 1870 she became editor of the Chicago Magazine of Fashion, Music and Home Reading. She interviewed Mary Todd Lincoln when she was confined to a mental institution at Batavia, Illinois. Mrs. Lincoln had refused to talk to male reporters and Rayne's published interview with her led to her release. By 1878, Rayne moved to Detroit to work for the Detroit Free Press. Rayne's book is divided into two primary sections. The first, Women in the Business World, provides detailed introductions to the career opportunities then open to women, as well as biographical sketches of those women in the respective fields and is still one of the most important contemporary sources for this biographical information. Of the authors in the second (the literary) section, some of these authors remain canonical (George Eliot; Letitia E. Landon; Elizabeth Barrett Browning), while others have long since disappeared from college syllabi. As such, the volume isimportant for its contemporary compendium of quite a few now-lost voices, as well as an indicator of the author's tastes and her contemporaries' aspirations. |