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Vol. 4 No. 3 of The Storybook Home Journal
The Country Of the Pointed Firs
What's in this issue?
Prettily Provisioned the Decorating article
Ideas for celebrating storage instead of concealing it. Creative containers for flour and other ingredients. Uses a country pantry as the theme.
An Elegant Ingenuity the Hearth article
Patterns and instructions for creating a beehive as well as bird-shaped cookie cutters.
Like A Child Of France the Kitchen article
Recipes for French omelets, spruce drink, and blackberry preserves. Ideas and instructions for creating cookies shaped like shore birds, song birds, and ground birds.
One Could Have Listened Forever the Music article
William's Song, an original composition for piano.
A Rustic Pharmacopoeia the Garden article
Describes the uses, planting instructions and care of bee balm, catnip, chamomile, cone flower, lemon balm, mint, penny royal, and southern wood. Includes three reproducible jar labels, and an herbal tea recipe.
A Green Island Pantry the Workshop article
Shelving, box-bottom settle, and broom closet storage area added as part of remodeling a pantry.
[Sarah Orne Jewett] the Bookshelf article
Biographical sketch and reading list for Sarah Orne Jewett.
The Course Of The Sun the Lead article
Enriching daily life by being present to the moment.
Living Richly Without Being Rich the Attic article
Reproducible pantry-storage label. Ideas for herb and preserves storage. Painted eggs and miniature containers for displaying early spring flowers.
[A Love Of Family And Farm Life] the Veranda article
Reminiscences of childhood visits to her Grandmother's home.
Driggs Defined the Writer's Garret article
Neither destination nor comfort necessarily makes the best vacations or memories.
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By Al R. Young "If you would live a beautiful life have a beautiful farm," though not a precise quote from the Shakers, is certainly a concept they would have empathized with. It is just as certainly a description of the world Carol Cordiale shares with her husband in their country acreage in historic upstate New York--as Carol describes it, situated "on a rise nestled between two hills with a brook flowing from East to West." Together they have long cultivated an herb and cottage flower garden, raised sheep and goats, and even opened a little wool shop where, for a few years, Carol could sell the yarns she spun from the wool she gathered from her Nubian and Angora goats, and her llama, "Tommy-Hawk... Read more »
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By Al R. Young Reviewed by Nancy Young
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs is spellbinding notwithstanding the fact that it is the gentlest of novels. Its plot is hardly discernible, and yet it is almost as difficult to put down as a whodunit.
Jewett captures with enrapturing detail the book's warm and humane characters in a first-person narrative that relates the story of small town, coastal Maine with its beauty, grace, and eccentricities intact. As we see through the narrator's keen eye and feel with her sensitive soul, we make steadfast friends and encounter quiet people of remarkable strength... Read more »
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By Al R. Young The The Country Of the Pointed Firs issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios. This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - Prettily Provisioned (1 page)Hearth - An Elegant Ingenuity (1 page)Kitchen - Like A Child Of France (3 pages)Music - One Could Have Listened Forever (2 pages)Garden - A Rustic Pharmacopoeia (1 page)Workshops - A Green Island Pantry (4 pages)Bookshelf - [Sarah Orne Jewett] (1 page)Lead - The Course Of The Sun (3 pages)Attic - Living Richly Without Being Rich (3 pages)Veranda - [A Love Of Family And Farm Life] (2 pages)Garret - Driggs Defined (2 pages)The Country Of the Pointed Firs is the 27th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »
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