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Diary of an Early American Boy, by Eric Sloane. An account of the day-to-day life of a 15-year-old (circa 1800) who spent his time brewing butternut ink and learning how to build a house without nails, with the author demonstrating just how everything was done...
...without a nail in it that will go up and stay up for hundreds of years, how to make a bottle-glass window, a fieldstone grike, a folding ladder, a wooden tub, a cider press. Two ways to stack cordwood. A recipe for brown ink ("Boiled down walnut or butternut hulls that have been mashed first. Add vinegar and salt to boiling water to 'set' "). From king posts to roofing, Author Sloane details the construction of a covered bridge, which was an 1805 innovation. George Washington never...
...Fauvists (the Wild Beasts) and the cubists. He placed a painting in New York's history-making 1913 Armory Show ("We were modern, wildly modern"), but he quickly came to realize that his brand of cubism was derivative. One day he picked up a panel of butternut wood from a broken-down bureau, used it to carve a block for a print, thus learned the fascination of sculpture...
...with Sculpture. Zorach tried his first sculpture, carved out of a butternut panel salvaged from an old bureau, while summering in 1917 in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Where Zorach felt that his paintings were derivative, he found that working directly in wood and stone gave him a sense of coming into...
...Picture. No great shakes as literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South's civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O'Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O'Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett...