Her first foray into the hard-nosed newspaper world was as a junior reporter in Dumfriesshire. Duties included interviewing farmers about the prize-winning heifers to reporting on family tragedies. She persuaded her editor to let her launch an entertainment column which meant meeting the odd celebr...
Red Heifer Press 128 pp., $14.95 On December 14, 1906, a cargo steamship built at the Sunderland shipyards in the northeast of England was launched under the nameHolywood. She was then purchased by a Greek shipowner in 1935, who renamed herTanais, after the ancient Greek colony founded by...
Howard Wong and Keith Grachow talked about who they are and what they do, their Dead to Us book they worked on, the starting of Toronto Comics anthology and why, how to make a comic Canadian and if that's a good or bad thing, thinking about What If's and thinking on where that wo...
The book’s prologue is an English summary of a passage from Giuseppe Fumagalli’s 1905 lexicon of Italian typography that sets out and settles the 19th century debate about the identity of Griffo, a confusion that would resurface for the legendary typographer Stanley Morison in 1923. With a na...
"Thus, then, did we wait in great fear of mind till morning came, but when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, the male sheep hurried out to feed, while the ewes remained bleating about the pens waiting to be milked, for their udders were full to bursting; but their...
‘Seth Green was prob’ly the pick of the flock; he married a Wilkerson—Sarah Wilkerson—good cretur, she was—one of the likeliest heifers that was ever raised in old Stoddard, everybody said that knowed her. She could heft a bar’l of flour as easy as I can flirt a flapjack. ...
A healthy heifer calf born to red cow soon after midnight. All well. An excellent day. 21 July —Rode to Muellers'. Exchanged one jar honeycomb for leather bridle in poor repair (but can be mended). Home well after dark,in consequence of seeing a twilight hatch rising upon the pond ...
Flying Schoolis a book of beautifully crafted poems about the contrivances by which we attempt to enrich or repair our lives. One dominant image is flight and, more specifically, parachutes – reflecting an aspiration to come to terms with our hardest challenges, including the reality of death....
“I’m in shock at the number.” Daphne refused to state the actual number. “Shock without any baseline of knowledge. I don’t know what I should weigh. Last night, watching those men and women being weighed like heifers at market, I wanted to cry.” ...
There was about him that charming un consciousness o f self that one so often sees in the people who live close to and love the genuine things of nature. It is the estimate of all who knew him well that McNei l] was one of the most lovable of men. His u nselfishn e ss , his...