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E.A. Séguy Insectes, 1927. For the other side of National Honey Month … "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."—Joseph Joubert “All more »
Maria Sibylla Merian, Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung, 1730, bee hive. September is National Honey Month. “If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.”—Dale Carnegie “Tart more »
Textile Novelties, a trade catalog by J. B. Patterson & Co., is located in the trade literature collection at the National Museum of American History Library.
Today is Mushroom Picking Day, and what better guide to use than Bock’s 16th-century herbal?
September 21 is Miniature Golf Day. The illustration at left follows the adventures of a lost golf ball, probably on a turf course, but is still definitely in the spirit of the fun game, I mean sport, we call miniature golf or mini-golf.
The Libraries has featured Black Bart and pirates before, but today, September 19, is “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” so we’d be scallywags and scurvy dogs not to feature the buccaneers and their six-pounders again.