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A spool of blue thread

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Description: "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father."--
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2015.
Call number: 646295
Creator: Tyler, Anne(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9781101874271; 1101874279
Provenance: Gift of Robert C. Ritchie, February 2017.

How to make a fire - Walapai

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George Wharton James, seated, with writing pad, listening to Hualapai Indians demonstrating and explaining how to make a fire. A non-Indian man is seen in the background inside what may be a trading post or store.

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Engine of the Red Jacket Veteran Firemen's Association, Cambridge, Mass. Champion of the New England League 1894

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a manual fire engine used by the Red Jacket Veteran Firemen's Association of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a hose, two lanterns, a bell, two straw seat cushions, and decorations including a painted floral trim, two feather plumes, two American flags, and two water buckets and center condenser case decorated with images of bare-chested women; the carriage body is labeled "Red Jacket" and has a Masonic symbol, and a center rod is labeled "Faithful to Duty True to [?]ship"; there is a burning log torch at lower right and left of image.

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Crayonex

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Two boxed sets of colored crayons entitled Crayonex, manufactured by the American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio and New York. Set 8 is Crayonex No. 323 (24 colors); Set 9 is Crayonex No. 326 (32 colors). Each set is housed within a black paperboard box with cutouts so the crayons can be partially seen. The company logo is printed on the box in white, with the phrase: "Old Faithful Tuned Palet Color Products."

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The lost art of healing

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Never Before has medicine had the capacity to do so much good, yet never have people been so disenchanted with their doctors. The problem is that doctors have lost the art of healing, which involves much more than diagnostic skills and the ability to mobilize technology. At its core is the doctor-patient relationship, and in this provocative book one of our most distinguished physicians draws on forty years of experience to show how vitally important that relationship.

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The lost art of healing

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Mr. Thurtle's trolley : a novel

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"For thirty-two years Mr. Andrew Thurtle had been the crotchety bachelor conductor of Betsy, the bob-tailed red-and-yellow trolley car, and Mr. Frank Winch had been his faithful motorman. When the era of the bus finally drove Betsy out of business, the trolley company gave her to Mr. Thurtle and the Winches, Dora and Frank, as a memento of their long service. There she stayed at the side of their cottage until Mr. Thurtle made the discovery that he had a wonderful and curious power over the car. Mr. Thurtle and the Winches, who had always wanted to travel, decide to install a Diesel engine in Betsy, fit her out so they can live aboard her, and start across the country from New York to California. Sometimes they travel on trolley tracks doing a little business on the side, but mostly, with Mr. Thurtle's strange influence over the car, they sneak along the railroad tracks. In Kansas they stop to look up Nettie, who had been Mr. Thurtle's girl when he ran away many years ago, and who he hopes is still alive-and unmarried"--Jacket.

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A spool of blue thread

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