Showing posts with label nuggets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuggets. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2016

The First American Novel

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Picture from The Library of Congress The Power of Sympathy ; or, The Triumph of Nature by William Hill Brown is considered by many to b...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Doe, A Deer

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On August 13, 1942, Walt Disney released his fifth full length picture, Bambi . Bambi was one of those movies I could recite from memory;...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

All About Percy

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William Alexander Percy was born on this day, May 14, in 1885 in Greenville, Mississippi. Perhaps most well-known nowadays for his memoi...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

On Runcible Spoons and Owls and Pussy-Cats

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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat was one of my favorite poems growing up. I have always been a cat lover, and the sweet and lyrical courtship be...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Cicada Call

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Have you been hearing a strange vibrating sound lately? Perhaps you've run across some bugs that seem a little alien? Our neighborhood c...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

How Will You Welcome 2015?

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New Year's Eve and New Year's Day celebrations and customs vary across the world. While we in Mississippi are feasting on black-eyed...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Coffee-holics Rejoice

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As caffeine lovers, we were delighted to discover that today is National Coffee Day. It seems that despite the early hour when we usually im...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Happy birthday, Mr. Kossuth!

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My dad is in the market for a new dog. A Vizsla puppy, to be exact. Because Vizslas are a Hungarian dog breed, he's been brainstorming o...
Friday, June 6, 2014

D-Day: Books about the Beginning of the End of WWII

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June 6 was forever seared into America's memory as D-Day in 1944. On that day seventy years ago, over 150,000 Allied troops landed on No...
Friday, April 18, 2014

What's In A (Mississippi) Name?

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Mississippi, like any other state, has towns named for a grab-bag of things: last names (McComb was named for a Colonel H.S. McComb, Presi...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Book of the Day: The Drunken Botanist

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The Book of the Day, The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart, happens to be one of our n...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Where Is Thumbkin?

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I remember singing a song when I was little that was all about phalanges. The song didn't actually use the word phalanges--a pity, too, ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

3.14 Nuggets About Pie

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Many years ago, my former in-laws, sweethearts though they were, trapped me in their mini-van for four hours so that I could experience the ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Jacks: You've Got To Be Nimble

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Jacks A few days ago, someone asked if the old-fashioned jacks with which we played as children were still being made and sold. "Yo...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Seeing Is Reading

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Remember learning how to read? Cast your memory back to first grade: sounding out letters and forming them into words--C+A+T = CAT.  It wa...
Monday, September 23, 2013

And The Winner Is...

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I've been pawing through a book I found hidden in the stacks a few days ago. The title makes it sound like the most lascivious and licen...