This little folk tune had been playing around in my head last week. Then Tom mentioned it when we were wandering around the arboretum on Sunday. He in a private grade school, me, a public, both recalled the music teacher rolling the school piano down the hall and into the classroom and teaching us “Frog [...]
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Uh, huh!
Posted in Folklore, music, tagged Frog Went a Courtin' on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Stone soup
Posted in Children's books, Family and friends, Folklore, Food, tagged Marcia Brown, Oak Park Farmers Market, Stone Soup on Monday, October 18, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Sharon shared a simple, and simply delicious, recipe for an Italian Pasta soup with me the other day. I made it on Saturday night. As I was putting the ingredients in the pot, I was thinking about the Oak Park Farmers Market I visited earlier in the day and the stone soup that would be [...]
Minnehaha Falls
Posted in Adventure, Books, Children's books, Family and friends, Folklore, Historical, tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Minnehaha Falls, Statue of Hiawatha, Susan Jeffers, The Song of Hiawatha on Monday, October 11, 2010 | 20 Comments »
The Song of Hiawatha Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. from The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow Last spring, I wrote about Susan Jeffer’s beautifully illustrated [...]
Something Jeffersonian
Posted in Family and friends, Famous and infamous, Folklore, Food, Historical, Holidays, tagged Fourth of July, Macaroni and Cheese, pasta and Jefferson on Sunday, July 4, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I love Tasha Tudor’s illustrations. They are so evocative of another place and time and stir up feelings of family gathered around the kitchen and gardens overflowing with foxgloves and larkspur. Tasha introduced me, via her cookbook, to one of the best macaroni and cheese recipes I have had. It has become a mainstay on [...]
Did you ever?
Posted in Books, Children's books, Folklore, tagged Eeyore's quotes, Johanna Spyri, The Bobbsey Twins, Winnie-the-Pooh on Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Did you ever write with a twig in the sand – a heart or your name or the name of another?Did you ever draw simple squares on a sidewalk or driveway with a piece of gravel, or a chunk of chalk and play hopscotch with a friend all afternoon? Did you ever watch a storm [...]
I swallowed a fly!
Posted in Children's books, Folklore, Nature/animals, tagged There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly on Saturday, June 12, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I don’t know why I swallowed the fly! We were walking along the lower acre here along the cutoff. I was yapping away, as I am wont to do, talking a mile a minute about whatever was coming into my head; the gardens I was visiting for the garden walk, the trip I needed to [...]
Strawberry Girl
Posted in Children's books, Folklore, tagged Lois Lenski, Regional books for children by Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl on Friday, June 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There was a period of time in my elementary education that I could not read enough of Lois Lenski’s books. I poured over them, sometimes reading three books in a week. They entertained me and enlightened me, they showed me what daily lives were like for other children in other areas and they brought me [...]
King of the wild frontier
Posted in Famous and infamous, Folklore, movies, music on Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Some of the content of the television shows Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone would be considered politically incorrect today, but, as a baby booming generation, these shows were real adventures with heroes for boys and girls. I don’t remember much of the series Davy Crockett, which would be considered a mini-series today, but I do remember [...]
Missie and the donkeyman
Posted in Adventure, Books, Family and friends, Folklore, Historical, Nature/animals on Monday, March 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It took me so long to finish Last of the Donkey Pilgrims that I was starting to think I, myself, was accompanying Missie Mickdermott and the pilgrim himself, Kevin O’Hara, on their donkey cart jaunt around the ring of Ireland. It wasn’t because the book was hard to read or wasn’t good. It was because [...]
