Claustrophobia, Surprise!
Evan Williams
HAD chapbook #1
(Hobart After Dark)
(c) 2021
41 pages staple bound first item brought out by this entity. Hybrid poetry/short fiction (prose poetry) collection. Very good. Well made.
Friday, July 25, 2025
A Virginia Gentleman's Library published in Colonial Williamsburg (post-1952)
This was produced in Colonial Williamsburg as a keepsake "merch" item, likely sold at the print shop in the Colonial section of Williamsburg. Staple bound. 15 pages, detailing recommendations of what a "gentleman" should have on his bookshelf in his Manor home as proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1771, just before the American Revolution.
Quaint Idioms and Expressions of the Pennsylvania Germans by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr (no date given)
Quaint Idioms and Expressions of the Pennsylvania Germans
by A. Monroe Auband, Jr
(revised edition)
self published
Lancaster, PA
Subtitled "A Delightful Bit of Entertainment"
Half my family came from Amish/Mennonite legion in Pennsylvania. They didn't speak like this to "entertain" non-Pennsylvania Dutch speakers. It was their dialect and their culture. All the same, it is a cute booklet.
My great-grandmother was born in the mid-1800s and spoke no English at all. She was still alive and bedridden when I was a young boy and I would listen to Mother and Daughter (my grandmother) speak "Dutch" to each other.
In a way, then, this booklet speaks to my own history.
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