Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Boorstin’
October 1, 2019 International Coffee Day, Jens Jensen, LeRoy Abrams, John and Harvey Ruth, Cyrus Tracy, Daniel Boorstin, Eudora Welty, The Naturalist by Thom Conroy, Dark Times for Poinsettia, and the Restoration of the WIlliam Hallicy Nursery
Today is International Coffee Day. There is a legend that tells of coffee’s discovery: In Ethiopia, there was a goatherder who observed his goats didn’t want to go to sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. After he reported this to the Abbot of a local monastery, the Abbott gathered the berries…
Read MoreTrying to Plant Cut Flowers
by Daniel Boorstin Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers. Notes: Daniel Boorstin, a historian, was born on this day in 1914. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Daniel Boorstin
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