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  • Seasons

    Dallas Lore Sharp, Robert Bruce Horsfall, Renee Fern

    Paperback (South Jersey Culture & History Center, Sept. 1, 2014)
    Dallas Lore Sharp was born in 1870 in Haleyville, Cumberland County, New Jersey. After a childhood spent exploring the fields, forests, and swamps of South Jersey, he attended Brown University and eventually became Professor of English at Boston University. Writing in the first quarter of the twentieth century, Sharp was among the most popular nature writers of his time. He mused on aspects of nature that could be found in one's backyard - native birds, small mammals, creeks, trees and loose fall leaves - successfully translating the wild world into his readers' living rooms. The present volume is a selection of essays from The Whole Year Round, originally published as four shorter texts, each based on a season. In these essays Sharp concentrates upon the small scale of the natural world, a focus that highlights the grandness of nature as a whole.
  • The Out of Doors Club

    Samuel Jr Scoville

    Paperback (South Jersey Culture & History Center, Aug. 23, 2018)
    The Out of Doors Club, originally published in 1919, introduces the adventures of the "Band," young siblings led on imagination-filled hikes by their father. In twenty brief essays, many set in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Samuel Scoville Jr. reminds readers of simpler times--when the world held fewer cares and nature walks with a parent could be the highlight of a day. Trekking through fields, bogs and forests, canoeing down rivers, the Band learn amusing lessons about nature and life. Readers, meanwhile, will appreciate the gentle and loving relationship depicted between father, mother and children.