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United States of Design Road Trips: A Midwestern Route
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Have you checked out our itineraries for trips through parts of the Northeast and the South? Well, road trippers, now we're moving on to the design heartland! The Midwest is home to excellent architecture, truly amazing art and secondhand sources that must be seen to be believed. Clear space in the trunk, fire up the GPS and get ready for inspiration and treasure-hunting, midwestern-style…
Our starter itinerary this week begins in Ohio, zips up through Michigan, back down and through Indiana, ventures up into Illinois and ends up in Missouri. There is plenty more to see beyond our suggestions, so we'll leave the exact route to you but here are a few good stops to pick and choose from when plotting out your own trip:
Art Museums:
• Contemporary Arts Center, Columbus
• Columbus Museum of Art
• Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
• The Cleveland Musuem of Art
• Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati
Places to Stop, Stay and Visit:
• Columbus Architectural Salvage
• Flower Child Vintage, Cleveland and Columbus
Flea Markets and Antique Fairs:
• Art, Design & Antiques Market at CMA
• South Drive In Flea Market, Columbus
• Weekly Auctions - Sugarcreek, Farmerstown, Mt. Hope, Kidron
Apartment Therapy Reader Neighborhood Guide:
• Nick's Guide to Over the Rhine, Cincinnati
Apartment Therapy Reader Insider Tip:
• There are some antique malls all around in the 'burbs that one can find some great prices. I have found some cool stuff at one near Medina in what used to be supermarket. It is just east of RT 71 I believe... Heading way east on Rt. 422 is one called Aunties Antiques that can be interesting.
If you are willing to go back to the area a weekend or two After Labor day you can hit up the Burton Flea Market and Antique Show at the Geauga County Fair grounds. I have not been for years (as I now live in the Chicago area) but I went growing up and feel that contributed to my fabulous taste in all things old... - emtdmt
Art Museums:
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Interesting Homes to Tour:
• Saarinen House and Garden, Cranbrook
• Alden B. Dow Home & Studio, Midland
• Meyer May House, Grand Rapids
Places to Stop, Stay and Visit:
• Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
• Bureau of Urban Living, Detroit
• Mies van der Rohe and Alfred Caldwell's Lafayette Park in Detroit
• Ipso Facto, Three Oaks
• Rabbit Run Inn, Sawyer
Flea Markets and Antique Fairs:
• 127 Corridor Sale From Hudson, Michigan to Gadsden, Alabama
Apartment Therapy Reader Neighborhood Guide:
• Blake's Guide to Downtown Detroit
Art Museum:
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Interesting Homes to Tour:
• Miller House & Garden, Columbus - on Apartment Therapy
• Hillforest, Aurora
• Wylie House, Bloomington
Places to Stop, Stay and Visit:
• Columbus, including the Lagoons neighborhood
• Paul Henry's Art Gallery, Hammond
• Antique Alley, Richmond
• Midland Arts & Antiques, Indianapolis
• Exit 76 Antique Mall, near Columbus
Flea Markets and Antique Fairs:
• Shipshewana Auction & Flea Market
• Exit 76 Antique Mall, near Columbus
Art Museums:
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Interesting Homes to Tour:
• Farnsworth House, Plano, on Apartment Therapy
• Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park
• Robie House, Hyde park
Places to Stop, Stay and Visit:
• Chicago's Great Vintage & Antique Shops
• Chicago Architecture Foundation Tours and Shop
• Graceland Cemetary
• Millenium Park
• Wright Auction House
• Merchandise Mart, Showroom Tours & Shopping at Luxe Home
Flea Markets and Antique Fairs:
• Chicago Antique Market
• Kane County Flea Market
• Wolff's Flea Market, Rosemont
• Sandwich Antiques Market
• Grayslake Antique Market
Art Museums:
• Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
• St. Louis Art Museum
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
• Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Kansas City
Interesting Homes to Tour:
• Campbell House, St. Louis
• Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio, Kansas City
Places to Stop, Stay and Visit:
• Eero Saarininen's Gateway Arch, St. Louis
• St. Louis Architecture Walking Tour
• Cherokee Antique Row, near St. Louis
• Retro Inferno, Kansas City
• Weird Stuff Antiques, Kansas City
• American Restaurant designed by Warren Platner, Kansas City
• Hammerpress, Kansas City
• Urban Dwellings, Kansas City
Apartment Therapy Reader Neighborhood Guides:
• Jeff's Guide to the Central West End, St. Louis
• Jake's Guide to Soulard, St. Louis
• Jamie's Guide to Waldo/Brookside, Kansas City
This list is just the beginning — please share your favorite have-to-stop destinations in the Midwest with us all in the comments below...
Images: Main Illustration - Allard Laban
Re-edited from a post originally published 7.25.11 - JL
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Woah, your Ohio list is lacking! You forgot the best museum in the state, in fact one the best and most reknowned in the country...The Cleveland Museum of Art - not to be missed.
In St. Louis be sure to put City Museum on your list and shopping in the Central West End. It is mentioned in one of the Neighborhood guides links however Centro is not listed. For all of you modernists out there. You must visit Centro.
The Toledo Museum of Art and Glass museum are also missing. I would argue that those are the best in the state (sorry jk25!)
Minnesota? Hello?
We've got world-class architecture (Gehry, Herzog + de Mueron, Kenzo Tange, etc!) a thriving art scene, some of the best creative agencies… amazing museums (The Walker!) C'mon, guys, where's the love?
I've got to agree with lhsimm! Minneapolis is has an amazing wealth of creative people and places! Along with the places already mentioned, Robb Whitleff's showroom is beyond incredible!... Along with interiors shopping there are so many great interiors to be seen and photographed!
What made you decide to leave out Iowa and Minnesota? That doesn't seem very true to the midwest seeing as how you left out have the states.
Hear, hear, lhsimm! Mpls is the hometown of established design deities Blu Dot and Room & Board, plus upstarts like Crafters Local 612 and the Nordeast Art-a-Whirl.
I refuse to click on any ad links until this grievous oversight is corrected.
What about wisconsin?
Wowza. I don't know if you've heard, but there's more to Michigan than Detroit! Jeez... This was a bit disappointing. I hate when articles like this pop up, include Michigan but then act like everything in Michigan is Detroit when that couldn't be any further from the truth... Too bad.
Too true JenneJoy! No mention of the completely fabulous Grand Rapids Art Museum, or University of Michigan Museum of Art, which are worth a visit for the buildings alone. I don't much about homes outside of Southeast Michigan to tour, but I'm surprised NOT to see Meadow Brook Hall, the Henry Ford Estate, or the Edsel and Elanor Ford House listed.
Cherokee Antique Row isn't near St. Louis, it's IN St. Louis. And Cherokee is much more than Antique Row-- make sure to head west of Jefferson too. The entire street is full of awesome stuff.
In IOWA (part of the Midwest) there are loads of antique shops (notably in Walnut, a town of 900 people and 15+ antique stores). And then there's the Grant Wood Museum in Cedar Rapids, as well as the Czech Village.
You forgot Wisconsin too....Miwaukee's 3rd Ward, Madison's State Street, Spring Green (Frank Lloyd Wright), The House on the Rock, Kohler (Kohler Design Museum), Door County 's antique shops...
Another vote for Minnesota! Design-wise, there's a lot.
Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art - Kansas City
Nerman Museum for Contemporary Art - Kansas City
Check out the North Shore Flea every Wednesday night along with the Highwood Farmer's Market from 4pm to 9pm in Chicago's North Shore.
Randolph Street Market is the last full weekend of every month from May through September, it's a blast and right downtown Chicago---
In Ohio (specifically Columbus), I would check out the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. Visitors are welcome and includes a world-class library and roof garden! http://knowlton.osu.edu/?content=9
Columbus-bound folks--Collier West, pictured above, is closing in just over a week! I work in the neighborhood, and everyone's very sorry to see them go. Be sure to stop by if you're in town--but if not, they'll still be online.
CITY MUSEUM in ST LOUIS!!!!
When you're in Kansas City, you should try to get to Harry Epstein's (http://store.harryepstein.com/). It's a hardware/surplus store that is a magical wonderland of tiny hammers and Czech two-way telephones and castiron cookware and a million things to get your project-y juices flowing.
Minneapolis has got to get some love here! There are soooooooooo many amazing places to stop, we have a large number of salvage shops, great designers and architects, we also have some pretty cool looking buildings and crazy homes. Heck, I'll show you around if you need a guide.
Another shout out of LOVE for Minnesota...We moved to Phoenix 5 yrs ago, but MN will always be home. Some of the best museums, galleries, shopping...
And when did the Midwest NOT include Wisconsin, Iowa, The Dakotas and Nebraska?
I'm going to promote the City Museum, as well, in St. Louis. Don't forget that a lot of the stuff in Forest Park is *free!* - like the zoo, history museum, and art museum, unless you want to go to a special exhibit.
And also, I'm going to be yet another person asking - where is Wisconsin? Minnesota? Are these in some previously unknown region that are not in the Midwest?
My two favorite antique markets -- Burlington Antique Show in Kentucky, but very very close to Cincinnati (and is where I got engaged!) and the Tri-state Antique Market, which is Indiana but again, a 20 minute drive from Cincinnati. Reasonably priced finds, sweet sellers.
sad you left out wisconsin, we just moved here a couple years ago and as a design junkie, i could use the resources!
Love to see the hometown, college town and home and away from home all represented in your Midwestern round-up. Yes, there's far more than one blog post of great finds in the Midwest, but this is a great start.
There's more than corn in Indiana (check out Antique Alley in Richmond and the Robie House in Bloomington for yourself - then hop over the border to the Windy City. ;-)
I scanned through just to see if Iowa was there...and of course we're not. Do you people think the only architecture here is barns?! Come on! Frank Lloyd Wright house, HELLO!!! Lame post.
Chiming in -- why no Iowa love? Hello? You're only taking baby steps into the Midwest. There are some famous names attached to the architecture in Des Moines (Eliel Saarinen and I.M. Pei both had a hand in designing the Des Moines Art Center). There's also West End Architectural Salvage (www.westendarchsalvage.com). There's also a Frank Lloyd Wright house open to the public (in Quasqueton). Did you guys do any research before planning your trip?
And if you go to St. Louis you are not allowed to leave without visiting the City Museum or Laurmeier Sculpture Park. And Ted Drewe's. (mostly because I didn't get any frozen custard the last time I was there. Sigh.)
@catiaelizabeth: You beat me to it! Maybe we're a bit biased, but the Toledo Museum of Art is pretty awesome!
I also recommend the City Museum in St. Louis. They've got some great architectural bits stashed around the place. Don't know how many times I've stopped by a piece and thought, 'Man, I wish I could take this home.'
Chillax, peeps. I'm pretty sure when they said that "This list is just the beginning" it means that there will be a part two which I'd assume would include Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska... what, no one noticed the lack of Nebraska but me? Come on, what about Omaha??
Unfortunately, it was just announced that Collier West in Columbus is closing and reopening in New York somewhere, not sure when. BUT if you find yourself IN C-bus be aware that this list is severely lacing and the entire length of high street is FULL of awesome vintage, salvage, antique, and designerly shops and art galleries. Seriously, take the bus down High St from Old Worthington to Downtown and make it a day.
Great job on these design-oriented road trips. And whoever is doing the regional design headers is doing a beautiful job.
If you are in the Indianapolis area, Midland Arts & Antiques is a must. It is an old industrial building near downtown that is filled with quality items from various vendors. There is also a MCM shop at Meridian and 22nd Street if that is your style.
When in the detroit area, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village are a must! Such a diverse collection of American progress. http://www.thehenryford.org/
The Indiana Design Center opened in 2010 and has both trade and retail showrooms carrying national brands like Kravet, Ralph Lauren, Brizo, Kohler, Schonbeck, Sub-Zero, Hickory Chair and more. This is a can't-miss stop for design resources in Indiana.
Visit www.IndianaDesignCenter.com for information or "like us" at www.facebook.com/IndianaDesign.
GO AWAY DO NOT DO NOT Talk about Minneapolis, I want all my great stach places to stay secret!!! Go Away!!!
A fifth vote for City Museum in STL - which is NOT what you think it is. This place is insane! Made of mostly reclaimed materials (if not all?), it is straight from the dream world of a genius mastermind.
Rebar tunnels several stories high? Slides made from those rolling conveyor things in factories? Marbles and ceramic tile bits used all over? A bus on the roof? A giant grasshopper? An airplane perched in midair...that you can climb on? Cocktails served until 1:00 a.m. to grownups who then go climb over said rebar tunnels? Wow.
There is no way to describe this. My kids aren't the only ones who clamor to go to City Museum. (We live in TX, so we've only been once. And I promise, none of the above is exaggeration....)
There better be another midwest post that includes Minnesota and Wisconsin! And it better include Taliesin and the House on the Rock.
So glad to see the Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, MI listed. Any Frank Lloyd Wright, or, for that matter, any fan of architecture should not miss this one! It is considered the most completely restored & meticulous restoration of all the Wright homes. You will most definitely understand his full vision and what it was like for the May's to live there. It doesn't at all feel like a museum, but that the May family just stepped out for a minute. As an aside, I actually lived in the apt. next door back in the '70's when it was in major disrepair and falling apart. I knew it was a FLW, and would feel so sad looking out my kitchen window everyday at this beautiful masterpiece in such ruin. Little did I know then, that Steelcase, the office furniture co., would buy it several years later and save it for the generations. Well worth a trip. And the rest of Grand Rapids is just an added bonus. The Grand Rapids LipDub on YouTube will give you a bit of a sense of what we're about. I love living here.
How can you do a "midwest tour" and not mention Kansas since you can't get anymore middle of the country, there are a lot of great things here. Hopefully if there is a part two it will be mentioned.
In SW corner of Michigan, you really missed our favorite store for shopping, Marco Polo Antiques, one of the first design-oriented shops in the area. Absolutely the best pieces, from the 18th and 19th century thru mid-century modern, great stuff from all over the world. These guys have a gallery that is the best around. Check them out online as well at marcopoloantiques.com.
Can we get a little love for downstate Illinois, please?!? Despite what most people think, there is more to Illinois than Cook County. Come on down to our neck of the woods and enjoy the great little river towns along the Mississippi like Grafton and Alton where you can find all kinds of great antiques and architecture. And we're only 25 minutes away from downtown St. Louis (and I TOTALLY agree with you about the City Museum!).
I'm hoping that Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa will be in a different region, because surely they weren't ignored.
You missed the Toledo Museum of Art - MUCH better than Columbus.
Pulitzer Foundation is in STL not MCI (Kansas City) FYI and yes, City Museum is a unique experience for all ages.
I'm glad they left WI and MN off the list. Let's just keep that our little scandinavian secret!
You forgot Ann Arbor, Michigan! UMMA, gorgeous campus and downtown, and the biggest art fair in the country every July which brings more than 500,000 people to A2.


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Not much out here in Los Angeles.
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I added this article to my Cavendish wiki. Like Laurent Hodges Titchmarsh too calls the Cavendish experiment the Michell-Cavendish experiment. This reminds me the Ship of Theseus paradox. Cavendish's pendulum had three components:
1) the wooden arm
2) the copper wire
3) the lead weights.
Cavendish had a new wooden arm made because what he inherited was warped. Cavendish bought a new copper wire. Cavendish cast his own lead weights because he thought Michell's was too small. Was the pendulum Cavendish used to weigh the earth still the pendulum he inherited from Michell?
The original apparatus itself did not survive. Baily, a contemparory of Cavendish's, said that "Cavendish's apparatus belongs to the Royal Institution, of whom I borrowed it for the purpose of having copies of its several parts made for my experiments." (
(Titchmarsh, p. 321)) Titmarch searched the records of the Royal Institution but could not find any reference to it. But he found a map which shows the shed where Cavendish conducted his experiment.
To compute the density of the earth Cavendish used the formula
N = mean period of the pendulum
B = number of divisons the arm moved as Cavendish switched the weights from positive to negative or vice versa. (Also from neutral position to other two.)
Probably I am misunderstanding the formula, but I don't get Cavendish's results. For instance, his results table ((Titchmarsh, p. 329)) for experiment IV has N = 7 m 1 sec and B = 6.18. Plugging in these values I get
177241 / (10844 * 6.18) = 2.64
Cavendish gives for this experiment 5.29.
Where do I err?


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Yesterday's press release documented a 30 node SGI Rackable Cluster running VoltDB achieving 3.4 million transactions per second (at 10ms latency) running the "Voter" application.
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By Tony Jones
The Salt Lake TribuneFirst published Aug 23 2013 03:45PM
It's been a long wait for Michael Walker.
Utah's newest starting safety has worked his way steadily up the depth chart in three years. He's played plenty in a back-up role, sort of like a utility man. But he's never quite been the number one guy.
Now — heading into next week's opener against Utah State — Walker will have a big impact on the Utes' defense for the first time in his career. Heading into fall camp, he was a co-starter at nickel back on the depth chart. He ascended from that status with his play in the last few weeks.
"I've been working hard," Walker said. "It's my senior year and I'm trying to enjoy my senior year. You never know when it's your last time to play."
Walker's been one of the more versatile defensive backs on the team, one who's rotated between cornerback and safety the last few years. He knew where he was slated on the depth chart coming into camp. But he also knew that he just wanted to play.
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin. New York: HarperCollins, 2010
Award-winning author Franklin's third literary novel is also a mystery. The book is really about relationships and the mystery just comes along for the ride in Constable Silas "32" Jones' well-worn, thirty-year-old Jeep, which is his official vehicle. Franklin explores Silas' relationships with people in the town of Chabot, Mississippi, and with the place itself. The main story concerns Silas' relationship with Larry Ott, a friend from childhood, and how that relationship resumes in the book's present. The book is also a well-done examination of Southern rural life and, while Silas is black and Larry is white, race isn't a subject of the book, but is a constant undercurrent just as in real life. Franklin, as in Hell at the Breech and Poachers, once again nails the character of both the people and place. He describes, shows us, types of southerners as individuals rather stereotypes. There's not a word out of place or wasted. This is a book to be enjoyed for its structure and language as well as plot. For instance, when we first come across Alice Jones, Silas' mother, standing alongside a rural road with Silas on a cold morning we learn that they are from Chicago through the following exchange between her and Larry's father.
"His father and the woman called Alice were talking about how cold it was.
'Freeze my dad-blame can off,' his father said.
'Mm hmm,' she said.
'You ever seen the like?'
'No, sir.'
'Not even in Chicago?'"
Franklin just slips that bit of crucial information in sideways. Sort of the way you might learn something important in a conversation with a good-ole-boy sitting at the lunch counter in small-town Mississippi, obliquely. Now we know that Alice and Silas Jones have come to Chabot, Mississippi, population maybe 500, from Chicago. Franklin shows us, doesn't tell us that little fact. And we're left to speculate for a while on why and what that means. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a fine addition to the body of Southern literature.
Recommended by Nick Schroeder, Senior Graphic Designer, Office of Marketing and Communication
Half Broke Horses; A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls. New York: Scribner, 2009
I should come clean from the start: I "read" the audio edition of this work, which was wonderfully read by the author. Half Broke Horses tells the story of the author's maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who realized as a teenager that her future lay off the isolated family ranch where, from a young age, she served as her father's cowhand. She sets off on her pony at age 15 in a 500-mile trip to her first job—teaching in a one-room frontier school. Lily is an unflappable proto-feminist whose life is an amazing story of survival—tornadoes, Dust Bowl drought, floods, a bad marriage, Depression hardship, and personal tragedy. Most interesting for readers of Walls' 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle, is insight into the early life of Lily's daughter, Rosemary, the author's mother. In fact, Half Broke Horses serves as a prequel to The Glass Castle in which Walls told her story of growing up with poor, nomadic parents in what we would now call a "dysfunctional" family. In an author's note, she says she had to invent some of the details and thus calls it a "true-life novel," but telling the story in a first-person voice makes this an engaging, even compelling story.
Recommended by Susan Hopwood, Outreach Librarian
I'm a Fool To Kill You; A Rat Pack Mystery
Robert J. Randisi. Sutton, Severn House, 2010
In this fifth of the Rat Pack series (following You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You), prolific mystery and Western author Robert Randisi again paints a wonderfully vivid portrait of Las Vegas in its early 60s heyday. Our narrator is Eddie Gianelli, a pit boss at the Sands who finds himself doing the occasional off-the-books "favor" for one or another member of the Rat Pack. On loan to Eddie from mob boss Sam Giancana himself is friend and bodyguard Jerry Epstein, a .45-packing thug with a heart of gold and an insatiable appetite for pancakes. Having previously helped Sinatra with a "problem," Eddie now helps Frank by checking on his ex-wife Ava Gardner. Given to all kinds of bad-girl behavior, she fears she may have killed someone during a two-day blackout. Mayhem in the form of beatings and murders follows Eddie and Jerry as they attempt to protect the lovely femme fatale from a mysterious adversary. Recalling the events as an octogenarian, Eddie is an endearingly straightforward narrator, occasionally blinded by the Rat Pack's star quality and glamour, but usually cynical and realistic about how things get done in Vegas and Hollywood. Not above calling on the owner of the Sands to nudge Giancana on behalf of golden boy Sinatra, Eddie often runs afoul of the law, the lawless, and the celebs while remaining true to his own code of honor. Reminiscent of the late Stuart Kaminsky's Toby Peters mysteries, the Rat Pack novels may be light on plot, but they make up for it with Randisi's research, which yields excellent atmosphere and great cameos by many of the stars who trod Eddie G's sunny Vegas sidewalks in 1962. As Dino would say, "Have fun, pally."
Recommended by Bill Gagliani, Stacks Supervisor
Chris Cleave. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009
Readers who are thinking about reading this book won't find much about the story, except that reviewers call it "riveting," "haunting," and the like. A meaningful review is hard without giving away the plot, but the novel captivates from the get-go. Little Bee is a Nigerian girl we first meet in a British immigration detention center, having adopted her new name as a way of erasing traces of the past. During two years there she has worked hard to perfect the "Queen's English" as a way to survive. Then we learn what has brought her to England—hopes that a young English couple she met on a Nigerian beach can rescue her. The Brits casually and naively picked Nigeria as a place they might patch up a failing marriage, but encounter a political mess of oil, corruption, and killing. The British wife is merely interesting with a glamorous career in publishing, brilliant husband, cute young son in his Batman phase, a slightly boring, but steady adulterous liaison; however, she plays well as a foil to the captivating Little Bee. Cleave, a political journalist with The Guardian, has a wonderful writing style and unfolds this story like peeling an orange. There's a lot of politics but it is subtly dressed in an easy-to-read contemporary story.
Recommended by Susan Hopwood, Outreach Librarian
Lindsey Davis. New York: Minotaur Books, 2010
Marcus Didius Falco, a private detective (aka informer) in 1st century Rome, is in pursuit of a serial killer in his latest investigation. When his father dies unexpectedly, Falco inherits the considerable estate, including some creditors who don't seem to want to be paid. When they turn up dead, at least that problem is solved! But in the course of looking for them, Falco also finds a family of freed slaves, the Claudii, who live in the Pontine marsh area south of Rome and terrorize the other local residents. Some of the Claudii brothers are the clear primary murder suspects; the mystery lies in the fact that the family has protectors somewhere within the Roman government. Falco and his partner and brother-in-law Petronius Longus must figure out the connections. As usual, Davis excels at delivering snarky dialogue and commentary along with historical detail. She also sneaks in some brief reflections on the nature of families, and what their influence through generations can be. Less successfully perhaps, she also touches on the evil of torture. This is a much darker novel than some of her others, but still quite a good read. The book can stand alone, but if you've read some of the preceding novels, you'll understand the characters and their history better, and enjoy this one more.
Recommended by Valerie Beech, Research and Instructional Services Librarian
Alia Yunis. New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2009
The night counter in the title of this unusual novel is an elderly immigrant woman who believes that she will die in nine days' time. The framework for the novel is this: 992 days ago Fatima (a Lebanese-American) 'met' Scheherezade, the character from the 1001 Arabian Nights, and ever since the two have been companions. Since no one else can see or hear Scheherezade, many wonder if Fatima has lost her marbles as Scheherezade keeps pestering the irascible old woman for stories about her life. Once you accept this unusual framework, you're in for a treat. In the course of conversations between the two, and through the side-trips that Scheherezade makes, the reader learns about Fatima's life—she married twice, bore 10 children, raised them and also a couple grandchildren. In the course of all that, a tragedy splintered the family. Now Fatima lives in LA with her grandson Amir, an aspiring and gay actor, and prepares for her own death, wondering to which child to bequeath her various worldly goods. Although there is sadness and pain, there is also laughter and comedy: Fatima tries to arrange a marriage for Amir while he is doing a photo shoot dressed as a terrorist; her cheerleader granddaughter follows a boyfriend to Beirut and gets dumped via e-mail; and two somewhat dim CIA agents are convinced they're onto a major terrorist plot. Sometimes it is difficult to keep track of which of Fatima's descendants is currently in the limelight, and the denouement involving the CIA agents is a bit contrived. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this novel of vignettes from the lives of a large and troubled, but loving family.
Recommended by Valerie Beech, Research and Instructional Services Librarian
Shaun Tan. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009
Books of short stories are usually just words. Often excellent words put together in wonderful combinations, and when we read those words we are allowed, even expected, to produce our own images regarding the appearance of the characters and place them on the stage of our imagination. But occasionally a book comes along where the author has already undertaken that role and has rendered delightful imaginings to accompany his words. Tales from Outer Suburbia is just such a book. It is an illustrated book of 15 sometimes very short stories about children, grandfathers, exchange students, toys, secret spaces, neighborhoods and the unreality of the world. Oh, and water buffalo; did I mention water buffalo? "The Water Buffalo," my favorite story, concerns a silent but helpful water buffalo who lives down the street. The illustration shows a water buffalo dominating a vacant lot and giving directions to a young girl. Literal, believable fantasy and, perhaps, a coming-of-age story. That story together with the table of contents alone are worth the price of the book. The table of contents is a manila envelope and the stamps on the envelope are illustrations connected to the stories. The denominations of the stamps provide the page number of each story. The spread is a tour de force of imagination. I highly recommend this book to anyone who values wit, whimsy and great illustration. The pictures are funky yet endearing, imaginative and literal. The stories are charming and sometimes thought provoking. Outer Suburbia, while populated with children, and usually shelved in bookstores with the children's books, is really best visited by kids age 12 and above and adults who retain, or wish to regain, their sense of wonder. Lastly, a big shout-out to the Australian Government, who "through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body" provided assistance for the book. Only in Oz could the government provide support for something as astonishing and subversive! Make plans to visit Outer Suburbia this holiday season where image and imagination reside.
Recommended by Nick Schroeder, Senior Graphic Designer, Office of Marketing and Communication
William Gibson. New York, NY: Putnam, 2010
The Bigend trilogy—Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and, most recently, Zero History—by cyberpunk guru William Gibson represents not so much a departure from his previous work as its logical next step. By setting quasi-futuristic technologies in the present day, Gibson leads us to consider whether the barely imaginable might not be, in fact, perfectly feasible. Like its two predecessors, Zero History explores the impact of branding, trending, and insidious marketing on popular culture. Morally-challenged marketing entrepreneur Hubertus Bigend MUST own the Next Big Thing. The grail in Zero History is a clothing manufacturer so obscure that its small collection of iconic garments is sold in random pop-ups by invitation only. Bigend wants—needs—to uncover the identity of the mystery clothier, and manipulates indie rock singer-turned-journalist Hollis Henry and recently rehabilitated druggie-turned-puppet Milgrim into advancing his quest. The team struggles between their revulsion at Bigend's machinations and their simple curiosity, all the while fighting off surveillance penguins, provocateurs, renegade fashion designers, and thugs. In Zero History, Gibson employs enough of his sophisticated writing style, dry humor, and signature techno-fetishism to satisfy his fans, as well as enough thrills and plot twists to engage readers of more conventional suspense fiction. As to the big reveal—who is the mysterious clothier? Let's just say I did not see that one coming. Review is based on the audiobook, excellently read by Robertson Dean.
Recommended by Susan Sponberg, Technical Services
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2010
This award-winning book uncovers one of the most unimaginable stories in medical history. In 1951, without knowledge or consent of the patient or family, cervical cancer cells from a 30-year-old African-American woman were collected by Johns Hopkins doctors. The patient, Henrietta Lacks, died soon after, but what is miraculous is that her cells continue to live. Back in 1951, the Hopkins researchers were surprised to find that Lacks' cells were able to do what no other human cells could previously do—survive and multiply outside of the body. In the decades to come, over 50 million tons of "HeLa" cells would be produced and unbeknownst to the Lacks' family, millions of dollars worth of these cells have been sold to researchers all over the world. The cells have been used in countless medical studies and have aided in important discoveries such as the polio vaccine and have furthered AIDS and cancer research. In her quest to write about the long-forgotten source of the cells, science journalist Skloot tracks down the Lacks family. Wary at first of further exploitation, they eventually come to accept Skloot's sincerity in telling Henrietta's and their own stories. This very readable book is a fascinating look at medicine, medical research and industry, ethics, poverty, and race. It also provides a very human look at a family coming to grips with the tragic loss of a family member and discovering decades later the huge, powerful and profound impact she has made in the world. Skloot donates a portion of her book receipts to her new nonprofit organization, the Henrietta Lacks Foundation.
Recommended by Rose Trupiano, Research and Instructional Services Librarian
Waterwalk; A Passage of Ghosts
Steven Faulker. Muskegon, MI: RDR Books, 2008
Visit any good bookstore and you'll find shelves sagging with adventure travelogues. In Waterwalk, author Steven Faulkner and his teenage son retrace the historic route of Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, paddling from St. Ignace to the Mississippi. In many respects this arduous 1,200 mile canoe trip makes the scores of accounts by long-distance hikers, climbers, and cyclists seem like a Sunday afternoon in the park. Yet Waterwalk's real charm is two-fold. First, Faulkner captures an eclectic mix of small-town Midwestern characters, some of whom ultimately make completion of the epic journey possible. Second, Waterwalk is a poignant story about a father and son's sometimes difficult relationship. This mix makes Waterwalk unique within the genre. Incidentally, Waterwalk will soon be released as a motion picture. Read the book before going to the local theater.
Recommended by Matt Blessing, Head, Department of Special Collections and Archives
Where Good Ideas Come From; The Natural History of Innovation
Steven Johnson. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2010
This is a popular science book. Well, sort of, since it touches on quite a bit more! Johnson's ultimate thesis is that human creativity, or innovation, happens most consistently in highly social settings, and that the lonely inventor who relies on inspiration is the exception. But describing this book is hard: it's written by a popular science-technology writer, and includes science, the history of science, sociology, culture and more. Since it is a "natural history," the book offers mostly description and observation rather than scientific proof. Over quite a few years, Johnson looked at and thought about various patterns in nature and among people, with the result that he found seven characteristics or conditions that he feels allow innovation to occur most reliably. In this book of stories and anecdotes about science, I found the most interesting to be the chapters on liquid networks (too much order and too much chaos both inhibit innovation) and the fourth quadrant (the highly social, non-market settings that best foster innovation). Since Johnson is a gifted writer, whether or not you find all of his arguments convincing, I suspect that you'll enjoy reading this book, and learning about many new things.
Recommended by Valerie Beech, Research and Instructional Services Librarian
You Never Give Me Your Money; The Beatles After the Breakup
Peter Doggett. New York: HarperCollins, 2009
Perhaps no other rock band has had such a strong influence as the Beatles and when the band broke up in 1970, millions of fans world-wide mourned. Music journalist Doggett goes into detail about the events leading up to, during, and after the break-up. By the late 60s, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were experiencing difficulties in their working and personal relationships: McCartney was perceived to be autocratic; Harrison was resentful that his songs were glossed over; and Lennon was totally absorbed with his girlfriend/later wife Yoko Ono, whose constant presence, especially in the recording studio, did not bode well. Business and legal difficulties further divided them, including the chaotic state of the Beatles' Apple enterprise and McCartney's resistance to signing with manager Allen Klein, followed by McCartney's lawsuit leading to the official dissolution. Disputes continued regarding record royalties and other matters, but now each member was free to embark upon his own career. Doggett does a good job of detailing their solo projects and even though the band never reunited, they did keep in contact and would occasionally collaborate. Lennon's murder in 1980 ended any hope of reunion and in 2001 Harrison died from cancer. This book helps fans to see that even though the Beatles' music was indeed magical, the creators themselves were very human.
Recommended by Rose Trupiano, Research and Instructional Services Librarian
Norman Podhoretz: A Biography by Thomas L. Jeffers (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), professor of English, explores the life of the American neoconservative intellectual and editor of the magazine Commentary.
Mad Men and Philosophy; Nothing is as it Seems, edited by James South (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010), associate professor of philosophy, examines the AMC series about a prestigious 1960s ad agency. South's essay collection is his fourth contribution to the pop philosophy series, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy, James Bond and Philosophy and The Beatles and Philosophy.
All The Way to Heaven; Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
Robert Ellsberg, editor. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2010
This volume draws on personal papers sealed for 25 years after Day's death and presents her letters by decade—from the earliest in 1923 to the last letter, months before her death in 1980. Like her diaries, published by MU Press in 2008 (The Duty of Delight), Day's letters offer a fascinating chronicle of her response to the changes in America, the church and the world, set against the backdrop of the Depression, Cold War, Vatican II, and Vietnam. Copies are available in the Browsing Collection.
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
Mary Helen Stefaniak. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010
Stefaniak, alumna of Marquette ('73 Arts & Sciences) and the Iowa Writer's
Workshop, is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Creighton University. Among
her earlier fiction and essay collections are The Turk and My Mother (2004) and Self Storage and Other Stories
(1997). She describes hew new novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, on her Web site: "Narrator Gladys Cailiff is
eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss
Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and
reading aloud from her ten-volume set of One Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins
when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad Bazaar. Miss Spivey and
her project transform the lives of everyone around her: Gladys's older brother Force (with
his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially
the Cailiffs' African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes
the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South."
The National Book Awards were announced in October: 20 awards were given for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. The fiction awards went to Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf); Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (McPherson); Nicole Krauss, Great House (W.W. Norton); Lionel Shriver, So Much for That (HarperCollins); Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel (Coffeehouse Press). See the NBA site for more awards, interviews with awardees, and videos of the presentations.
Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature in October. A political activist and acclaimed Spanish-speaking author, Vargas Llosa has written more than 30 novels, plays, and essays. An author search of MARQCAT shows more than 70 books and collections authored by Vargas Llosa. The award committee cited "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."
Bill Warrington's Last Chance, a first novel by James P. King, won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, sought by more than 6,500 authors from 22 countries. The novel features an aging veteran with developing Alzheimer's, who sets off on a road trip with his granddaughter.
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If they would offer the iPhone to all carriers in the US then that would increase their market share. Also if they don't want their phones to be "just for the rich" then they should put them on other carriers that offer cheaper plans other than just AT&T and Verizon.
Idk flood the market with cheap iPhones for the masses maybe but I'm going with the higher end model.
Apple needs to pull METRO PCS OR BOOSTMOBILE move and they will see their money blow out like crazy nd ppl be leaving At&t nd VZ. That's if they were to offer phone plans and have actual Apple network with good coverage and reception. But again am just dreaming. Ahah
If they offer a cheaper phone, it will be interesting to see the difference between the top and low end model.
Maybe one's plastic and the other gold If I pay top dollar/pound for my phone, I would expect to get a high end spec (hence it would be very interesting to see what they would leave out), if anything.
Also, does anyone know if tomorrows conference, will mention anything of the iphone or just the ipad
I realize they should increase market share and they have stated they want everyone to get their hands on an iPhone but, it just doesn't seem apple-ish. Apple has expensive, high class products. I mean come on, its like seeing THE IPHONE on a walmart shelf in plastic. The best phone being among the cheapies........ NO!
Just put a radio in an iPod Touch. Problem solved. That would basically be a smaller camera, less ram, less storage, no expensive glass back panel, no IPS display (but still Retina-level ppi, like the Touch).
That would shave a few hundred dollars off right there! I think the iPod Touch is a superior product for your money compared to the ridiculously overpriced iPhone. There's no reason for an iPhone to be $700 - that's ridiculous. I've bought a quality PC with a camera, blu-ray, and all the bells and whistles of a modern day computer for $600 (including a physical keyboard!).
Make those changes I just noted, sell it for FREE (on contract), and you've just sold billions more phones.
They're never going to release a second cheaper version of any iPhone. Apple would never bastardize their own handset by stripping features. But the service and the cost of a phone without a contract are the two things that keep most people from getting one, and in some cases, bad credit. The pay as you go option is a great idea and also a much more likely one, provided that the phones don't cost $800 that way.
They can still make a quality product without making it the most expensive. The Touch is a great example. It's solid, it feels nicer in the hand, and it's just as powerful as the iPhone (it can power through all the biggest apps just as easily).
Why do people think that Apple will 'never' do something? Jobs himself even said that they wouldn't make a tablet, yet here we are. It would be infinitely smart of them to exploit a market that they're not benefiting from: in this case, the mid-range phone market.
Maybe it's just an Apple Fanboy thing -- maybe they equate cost with value? Apple can still make a valuable device that hits another (smarter) price point. They've been doing it with the iPod line for years.
Now that I think about it some more, I think the only reason Apple hasn't made another iPhone at this point is because they're throwing absolutely everything into the iPhone that they can, and they don't have enough factories to reach demand. There has to be certain conditions before we'll see a $mart iPhone. What those exact conditions are, and when they'll be met, I couldn't say. I just don't think they're big enough to saturate the market yet. They've only been making cell phones for a few years, and it takes a year to make a factory/ expand. Right now it seems that Apple is in the expansion phase, so they're not focused on releasing variations of the iPhone - yet.
If they made it so everyone could afford one, even if they weren't making a killing on iPhone sales they would still be raking it in from iTunes and app store sales perpetually. I don't doubt that everyone and their dog would own one if they had a cheaper cost to operate
Yah...this is a great idea.
It fits right along with the throw away mentality that everyone has now!
iPhone 5 prepaid phone version.
I will be too happy
You can get an iPhone for $49 right now with AT&T
Dont screw thing up over greed. Thats all im asking
I suspect a lot of their "rich" customers would move to another premium brand. If Coach or Louis Vuitton started making handbags for 100$, do you think they would be able to command 900-2000$ or more for their "premium" handbags. I dont think so. There are a lot of "rich" folks who buy these bags just because they are so pricey :lol:


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I got Ray-Diant (thumb), Polarized (middle and pinky fingers), and Optical Illusion (pointer and ring fingers)
The other three I have not purchased are Liquid Crystal, Prism, and Full Spectrum.
Initially I thought Ray-Diant and Polarized were the same. They look the same in the bottle. Polarized however is much more silver than Ray-Diant that has a more clear base. Optical Illusion has a blue base and has the same minute and round glitters as the other two mentioned.
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Striped paper straws, courtesy of the inimitable Jordan Ferney, plus a slushy summer drink and kitchen art using the summer sun.
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I have those wood/melamine bowls (I got them from King Arthur), and they are fantastic!!
The striped straws trigger nostalgia, but I'm not sure why. Before I saw the description I thought they would be perfect if they were paper. Now if only the memory would come back.
Anyone have a working link for the mixing bowls?
Fixed, @Cheryl
Personally, I'd ditch the paper straws (although they remind me of Pixie Sticks!)...and go with spoon straws! I found a set of 4 at William Sonoma about 3 years ago (their online catalog doesn't carry them anymore)...however I did find the same item at <A HREF="http://www.target.com/Danesco-Stainless-Steel-Spoon-Straws/dp/B0018C5N74">Target.
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Can somone please answer my question. Do you need edge active or any inernet data plan to use this?? I currently have no Internet data plan becuase of wifi which I know should be off. Thanks
Ill ask again.. does anyone have any clue as to why this is not a native feature of the iphone? Whats the purpose for not having a very common feature of almost all phones?? I simply dont get it.
I'v been trying to figure out why they wouldn't put it as a native feature as well, and the only thing that even made some sort of sence is that it may be cheaper on there end to force us to send thru e-mail since we have unlimited multi media in our data plans. Even with this said, I highly doubt I phone users are going to bankrupt at&t or any company by means of MMS. nuff said, they are cheap, or just arn't thinking.
I hope it'll be a feature they add in the coming updates. they obviously have the ability to, I don't know what they're waiting for, either development purposes or just streaming the updates out slowly to stretch the lifespan.
Swirling in on MMS v0.2...
iPhonePosted by Tommy Svensson 2007-12-19 00:16:31
We are about to swirl in on a new release of our MMS application. This v0.2 release has improved handling of mmsc and proxy settings as well as allowing for configuration of an MMS specific APN with username and password.
Furthermore you are now able to select an image size and to clear your sent MMSs history. Of course, a few bugs have been fixed too :-)
Expect to see this release within a week, 10 days or so...
Obviously, we were not able to include the receiving MMS feature, which we know you are all waiting for, with this release. But we have experimented a bit... and hopefully a v0.3 release with receiving capabilities is due out in a not too distant future :-)
The GUI will be improved, but we focus on the core features right now...
Stay tuned and have a great Christmas!
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Great news but i assume this wont help those that simply cant seem to send via ATT??
you can send picture messages , for tmobil users just put in the email as [email protected] and it will be sent to their phone. and you can research it for other carriers. let me know if this makes sense lol?
yeah, I'm on tmobile and ive been sending pictures before this mms program was made so sending pictures isnt anything new to me, i just want to be able to receive them.
has anyone tried MMS v0.2 on t-mobile? i know t-mobile wasn't working with v0.1
As for receiving, heres a suggestion (although i haven't tried this): set up a special omap email account for receiving MMS, then theres a program in installer.app that simulates push email for omap (can't remember the name and i haven't tried it, but i know its there). give your special email to people that want to send you MMS. they send, you get it pushed to you, and voila! simulated MMS received! if someone tries this, let me know how it works... i will be trying sometime soon myself.
anyone know a update on the mms program yet?
Ok... i have heard of people with AT&T calling Customer Service and adding the .25 cent/message sent added to their plan and having it work with the new MMS installer app.
My question is this.... Do you think it would work if I downgraded to the $20 data plan that only has 200 SMS text but added the UNLIMITED TEXTING plan that is available for $19.99?
Here are my concerns....On AT&T website; the UNLIMITED TEXTING plan says that it is only available with certain devices. The iPhone is on the list of compatible phones but the Customer Service rep I spoke to said that it isn't. (i don't trust them people, they never seem to know anything)
My next concern would be that if it did end up working but i went over the 200 SMS texts available with my iPhone plan, would it convert over to my UNLIMITED plan that i added?
If this ended up working, i could have unlimited SMS and MMS texting along with unlimited data.
Plus it would be .01 cents cheaper
I got it to send. MAKE SURE TO TURN WIFI OFF. If it is on it will give you the connection failed error.
btw, if no one knew, the update is now available
ok got the new version pretty nice, what are the exact settings for AT&T including the APN, can anyone help please
Thanks all
OK Everyone just tried this and it worked from my email on Wireless too
Text messaging pictures from the iPhone:
Try this:
1. Open any picture on your iPhone
2. Click on the SEND photo link (pretend you are sending by email)
3. Click on the email photo command
4. Fill out the TO this way:
[email protected]
But replace 2125551212 with their numbers of course….
They'll get it! Great for sending to multiple text message recipients. However you can't do this to send TO an iPhone – I don't know why – but you can send FROM an iPhone in this way J
Service Provider Addresses:
AT&T Cingular: mms.att.net
T-Mobile: tmomail.net
Verizon: vzwpix.com
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An Illinois man has been arrested for illegal commercial fishing on the Wabash.
Illinois conservation police officers arrested 34 year old Aaron Taylor of Darwin, Illinois, at his home.
Police say that their investigation shows that Taylor had been harvesting shovelnose sturgeon from the Wabash River and selling the sturgeon eggs for several years.
66 year old Larry L. Bryan, who is also from Darwin, Ill., was also cited for his alleged part in the crime.
Eggs from female shovelnose sturgeon living in the Wabash River are caught as the swim up stream to spawn.
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I recall as a boy that our family would save for our summer vacations in the mountains by saving silver dollars all year. Whenever a silver dollar or "Cartwheel" would show up in the cash register of Dad's store, he would take a one dollar bill out of his wallet and replace the coin with it. The accumulated cartwheels would go into a canvas money bag saved for use on vacation. We would regularly fill up the tank on our jeep for three or four dollars!
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Though I started in early December, I feel completely confident and absolutely justified in thinking seriously about summer after this past week of fantastic weather.
Got an email from one of my readers the other day who told me how much he was enjoying my book, "Tight Lines, Observations of an Outdoor Philosopher".
Several years ago when the swim bait started to become real popular, I wrote about the baits becoming better than the anglers. As technology has far surpassed what I could ever imagine, I've been amazed at how it's changed the way anglers have fished. It seems like every year there's a new bait, technique, or piece of equipment that makes me wonder if catching more or bigger fish is now determined by who has the better equipment, instead of who's the better angler.
Russell Chatham wrote, "Fishing at its most rudimentary level is essentially solitary. Not only that, but its components, outside the particular baggage one brings to it, are entirely trustworthy. I mean, what creek ever teased you about your pimples; what breeze ever ridiculed you in front of your friends?"
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - The hugs with his family took place on the clubhouse lawn, not the 18th green. That was occupied, and by this time there was nothing Phil Mickelson could do about it.
The older I get, the faster that time seems to fly. It seems like only yesterday that I was chasing my first bear in the woods near Hoopa. It's hard to believe that it's now been over 35 years ago. Last fall my son Donald and I were once again out in the woods running after bears. Without a doubt the best way to catch a bear is to use trained hounds. While it may sound like it's a simple matter to just shoot a bear once the hounds have treed him, nothing could be farther from ...
Every year, there are new fishing products that come out and quickly become the hot item.
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I had every reason in the world to take in everything that South Florida had to offer.
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The other day while driving home from work I saw a truck towing a trailer with a couple snow mobiles on it.
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Date - Sun, Apr 27
Time - 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Every Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Come celebrate our growing family with us here at The Farm every Saturday. Our new Open Air Market is located conveniently on the Botanica patio area. Pick up artisan breads and spreads, salsas, gourmet treats like Tracey Dempsey marshmallows and brittle, and of course new items in our shop. Quiessence at The Farm also has chutneys, compound butters made with dill and honey, as well as vegetable soups straight from the garden.
For more information please call Botanica 602.368.1385