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If you lived here, you'd be home by now

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Description: Two hippies in Los Angeles throw in the towel and begin the trek to middle-class status. Bronwyn and Paul, she a professor, he a screenwriter, are tired of being poor. They change their address, their car and even start listening to a different radio station.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1997.
Call number: 655252
Creator: Loh, Sandra Tsing(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 157322068X; 9781573220682
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.

A circular, of the High Council. : To the members of the Church of Jesus Christ op [sic] Latter Day Saints, and to all whom it may concern: Greeting. Beloved brethren and friends;--We, the members of the High Council of the Church ... embrace this opportunity to inform you, that we intend to send out into the western country from this place, some time in the early part of the month of March, a company of pioneers, consisting mostly of young, hardy men, with some families ... to proceed west until they find a good place to make a crop, in some good valley in the neighborhood of the Rocky Mountains, where they will infringe upon no one, and be not likely to be infringed upon

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The formal announcement that the Mormons were about to depart from Nauvoo and begin their long trek westward to Utah. "Done in Council at the city of Nauvoo, on the 20th day of January, 1846. [Signed:] Samuel Bent [and eleven others]."

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A spool of blue thread

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"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."--

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The burning court

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When Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son's publishing house, learns of the mysterious events that befell his neighbor's rich uncle, he shrugs off their seemingly supernatural circumstances. He's a logical man and doesn't give much credence to claims of a ghostly figure visiting the man before his death, or the witch's ladder discovered under his pillow after he passed. But as suspicions of strange murder begin to creep in, it becomes harder for Stevens to ignore their eerie potential. His neighbor breaks into the cement-sealed crypt where his uncle is buried, only to learn that the corpse has vanished. Witness testimony further implicates the intrusion of the spirit world into the affair of the murdered uncle, and unsettling echoes of the past into the present push things even further past Stevens' understanding of reality.

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The phantom bouquet : a popular treatise on the art of skeletonizing leaves and seed-vessels and adapting them to embellish the home of taste

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"This essay was written in the autumn of 1861 for the Atlantic Monthly, and accepted for publication by the editors of that popular Magazine; but the pressure upon its pages has prevented the appearance of an article which is so little in accordance with the tone of the current American literature during the past eventful year. The numerous applications to the author for instructions in the art of Skeletonizing have induced the determination to delay its publication no longer, and to change it from a magazine article to a small practical work, adapted to aid the tyro in attaining a perfect acquaintance with the subject of which it treats. It is hardly necessary to acknowledge the aid derived from numerous friends of both sexes, who have freely imparted the results of their experience in the matter in hand. Of course, all skeletonizers have learned by this time that it is only by communicating what they know that they can expect to receive in turn the ideas of others, and thus promote our beautiful pursuit to its true position among the liberal arts"--From preface.

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Harvey W. Brown journal

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Diary kept by Harvey W. Brown while he traveled from Boston to San Francisco, and back again, in 1868. Brown left Boston on March 9, 1868, traveled to New York, and departed on board the Henry Chauncey on March 11. During the voyage Brown described his seasickness and the death and sea burial of a man from steerage, as well as making regular notes on weather conditions and distances traveled. On March 19 Brown arrived in Aspinwall (now Colón, Panama), traveled across the Isthmus by rail, and boarded the steamer Sacramento. On March 25 he described seeing "a volcano...on the mountain...it look[ed] like a grate of live coals." Writing on his 22nd birthday, April 1, 1868, Brown grew introspective, noting, "Little did I think last year at this time I should be here or that Aunty would be sleeping in the silent grave...How the things will change in a year." But his merriment returned when he got a piece of paper pinned to his jacket as an April Fool's joke. After a stop in Acapulco, the Sacramento arrived in San Francisco on April 2. Brown worked sporadically while in California as a painter (he worked briefly on the Mercantile Library) and applied for a job in cabinet making, but on April 17 he instead "hired a store" with his friend Ned at the cost of $25 a month. They attempted to sell corn, and while Ned did reasonably well Brown failed to sell anything. On May 6 Brown and Ned moved to new rooms when Brown got an unspecified job, but he "could not stand it...It made my arm so lame I could not work" (although he was well enough to go to the theatre that night). Brown seems to have been much more interested in amusement than work, and found the time to frequent the theatre, pay $20 in gold to join the Olympic Club, take multiple day trips, play nine pins and shooting, attend an Independent Order of Odd Fellows picnic, and carouse with his friends at places like the Bella Union, where he describes one of them as being "pretty drunk." By May 21 Brown had grown tired of San Francisco and bought tickets home for himself and a friend named Frank. They departed on the Sacramento on May 22, and had an uneventful voyage back across Panama and home, although Brown did not like their ship, the Rising Star. By June 16 they were back in Boston. Brown apparently worked as a carpenter, although the last entry in the diary, made August 31, 1868, notes that he "bought out A.Polson fish market [ in Fields Corners, Dorchester]." The front pages of the diary contain various sketches, including one of a ship. The back of the diary contains some accounting notes.

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Graduate Student Papers, A-B

Visual Materials

One box of 32 graduate student papers from Harvard and Massachusetts College of Art written by students whose last names begin with the letters A-B. The papers were written by students of Diana Korzenik, some for a course entitled "Why Skills Change- The History of Visual Art in American Education." At the front of this box are two copies of a bibliography compiled by Korzenik entitled "Cumulative Bibliography of Graduate Research Papers for History of Goals and Methods in Art Education." Abnet, Holly Pochman. "Quilting in the late 19th century: a display of competency for future mothers and wives." 1995 Aceves, Consuelo. "Seeing life through young eyes." 1995 Clemente, Ninive. "On Jacob Lawrence." 1995 Cossentino, Jackie. "Mining memory: the arts and progressive education in Baltimore's schools." 1995 Dorna, Deron J. "Art and Spirituality in the pedagogy of Francis Wayland Parker." 1995 Gilette, Dan. "Ware's MIT: empowerment through art education." 1995 Kim, Young Jae. "Education to bind, education to liberate." 1995 (2 copies) Litwin, Robin Gile. "May Alcott- the wind beneath her wings." 1995 Peckham, Kathleen. "A need to express: the rise of children's art and African art in Greenwich Village, 1910-20's." 1995 Tavilla, David. "Instruments of Perspective: the study of art and science in the pursuit of truth." 1995 Swosozowski, Kristin M. "Fragile threads of historical manipulation: the Ware Collection of glass flowers at Harvard University: casting a web of public support." 1995 Agam, Raya. "Educational justifications for introducing paper cutting in schools and art program in the U.S.A." 1984 Alzamora, Steven. "Aunt Lily Massachusetts College of Art, graduate of 1956." 1993 Anderson, James M. "Why art was omitted during the establishment of the French Christian Brothers and one of their schools, LaSalle Academy, in the United States." n.d. Baxter, Edwin Stuart. "Research Paper for Diana Korzenik." n.d. Beatte, Margaret. [Untitled, 1992?] Bedard, Tina. "Color instruction in late 19th century America." 1987 Berman, Ann. "Women's secondary education during the Depression years, in Boston." n.d. Berger, Jane A. "Howard Pyle: illustrator/ teacher of illustration." 1988 Bilal, Zuhairah N. [Untitled]. 1987 Bilal, Z.N. "History and Goals of Art Education, Supplement to complete the course" Hughes, Margreta A. "The passing of the cherry tree" 1991 Brown, Maryanne. [Untitled] 198? Billipp, Diana Haring. "How did Rudolph Steiner utilize art in the curriculum of the Waldorf School and what influences convinced him of its vital role in education?" 1991 Boemer, Allen J. "Frederick Law Olmsted 1822-1903 the father of landscape architecture: the park maker" 1990 Brown, Susan. "Superintendent Alcott, Concord Mass. 1859-1865" 1989 Bunting, Amy. "Child labor in the Lawrence textile mills during the mid 1800's" 1988 Burke, Linda S. "Emily Connick Burke, 1889-1978: the history of her art education" 1991 Bonito, David. "Historical research on Thompson's Island." 1986 Butler, Sandra. "Charles Frederick Whitney, Art Educator." 1988

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