COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 087 - jo

[Rapunzelina]

That's an idea! But now it's too late, I read it in my very exciting way

[Sue Anderson]

I can't find a copy of his book The Red Man's Greeting but there is one on the Pokagon Genesis. It is a really rough scan on Archive also printed on birch bark (of which we have a lot here). I'll see what I can do.

Hi Silverquill, I happened across this academic article by Lawrence T. Martin, which has a useful list of all Pokagon's writings, some of which were published in the Chautauquan and other journals available on the web. https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/478/380/

Martin was able to examine originals of Pokagon's birchbark books at the Newberry Library in Chicago! The Newberry site has a nice portrait of Pokagon: https://www.newberry.org/fairest-them-all

[Availle]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf087_delesseps_sciam_ava_128kb.mp3

There's only one small slip in your reading, which is not critical, but it would help the flow if you would do a fix. It's at 7:51.5. The text here reads "What is perhaps most remarkable in a man so bred and constituted, is that with gentleness of speech and suavity of manner he combines a strength of will and fixity of purpose worthy of Napoleon or Caesar himself." You said "gentleness of speed."

Fixed and reuploaded. Thank you!

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Availle, All PL OK now!

[BettyB]

"The Old Town of Edinburgh" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Volume 3 of With the World's Great Travelers 1901

Time is 20.10

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35632/pg35632-images.html#THE_OLD_TOWN_OF_EDINBURGH

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf087_oldtownedinburgh_stevenson_bbs_128kb.mp3

BettyB

[BettyB]

The Proper Way to Sit by Anonymous

The Boston Cooking School Magazine Volume 7 Number 8 March 1903

https://archive.org/details/bostoncookingsch19hill_1/page/n537/mode/2up?view=theater

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf087_properwaytosit_anonymous_bbs_128kb.mp3

Time is 3.13

BettyB

[Sue Anderson]

"The Old Town of Edinburgh" by Robert Louis Stevenson
BettyB

The Proper Way to Sit by Anonymous

The Boston Cooking School Magazine Volume 7 Number 8 March 1903

BettyB

Bravo, Betty! Thanks for these two well chosen selections, which bring vol. 087 to a close!
Robert Louis Stevenson's account of Edinburg really held my attention. I had no idea of Edinburgh's varied architecture or setting, and I had to turn to Wikipedia to see what Stevenson was talking about when he mentioned "lands.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone%27s_Land. The sad collapse of the high-rise tenement which he described certainly brought to my mind, however, the recent collapse of the condo in Surfside, Florida.

How to "sit properly." What a gem! We all need a little levity. That was a great choice. Thank you for finishing up vol. 087 in style!

Both are PL OK!

[Sue Anderson]

Vol. 087 is now FULL! Vol. 088 will be open shortly. Keep an eye out for it in the "Readers Wanted: Short Works (Poetry & Prose) thread.

[Grothmann]

Hi Sue:

This is for Collection 88 --

47 -- Stewed Eels, from
The Campers Handbook, 1908
By T. H. Holding
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:53


Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_47eels_holding_dg_128kb.mp3
Text at:
https://archive.org/details/campershandbook00holdgoog/page/n78/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

Thanks
Dale

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Sue:

This is for Collection 88 --

47 -- Stewed Eels, from
The Campers Handbook, 1908
By T. H. Holding
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:53


Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_47eels_holding_dg_128kb.mp3
Text at:
https://archive.org/details/campershandbook00holdgoog/page/n78/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

Thanks
Dale

Hi Dale, Oh my... oh my....presented with stewed eels on first turning on my computer in the morning, before breakfast no less, what can I say? Many many years ago, I watched an eel being prepared and cooked, and I ate of that eel. It was in Spain, and I got sick afterwards; I remember that day well. That is why I refused to eat octopus when I visited Greece. There are, perhaps, close encounters with the natural world which convince one to become a vegetarian...

Your reading must have been prescient, I must say, since last evening, in search of a something to watch on Amazon Prime, I revisited the movie "La Bamba." There is a scene in that movie where Ritchie Valens and his brother Bob visit the Mexican curandero, who, on screen, skins a rattlesnake, which they eat.

Thanks, Dale, for getting vol. 088 off to a great start! I'll move your post over there, when I get vol. 088 up and running, later today.

PL OK!

[knotyouraveragejo]

Congratulations! This collection is now in the LibriVox catalog and available for listeners to download. Please check the catalog page and let me know if any changes are needed:

https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-087-by-various/