Happy Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
Did you know a suffragette inspired Glinda, the good witch, in L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz?
In Praise of Bibliomania – can you really have too many books?
This year has yielded two newly authenticated works of Bach.
What happened when an island was cut off from the Internet.
Meet the ‘godmother‘ of Thanksgiving also wrote the nursery rhyme, Mary Had A Little Lamb.
Currently reading: Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Have a creative weekend, and Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans.
“A sarus crane, a flamingo, a wild bronze turkey cock, two Paduan fowl, a silver birchen game cockerel, and a hoopoe in a landscape”. Melchior d’Hondecoeter. 1675.
