Read to Write – A Challenge for 2023

This time of year, I always reflect on what I do and do not want to do in the coming year, and then I name my goals and resolutions for the New Year. Perhaps more than any other year before this one, I plan to Reach for the Stars in 2023. You see, in 2022,…

The Youth’s Companion – A Magazine from 1879

From Gutenberg Press. Org: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22242/pg22242-images.html Following are excerpts of some of the stories, features, and advertisements in the vintage magazine from 1879. ] THE HOSTLER’S STORY. By J. T. Trowbridge. The story begins: [Note: In 1879, few were concerned about cruelty to animals.] “What amused us most at the Lake House last summer was the…

The Cocoon Harvest – by William Hamilton Gibson

The Cocoon Harvest December 29 [From Gibson’s Sharp Eyes: A Ramblers Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds and Flowers – Originally Published in 1898 and  illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson Author and Illustrator.] NOW is the time to lay up your store of cocoons, looking to those beautiful moths of next: June; and there…