General Interest

As some of our loyal readers know, we started this website back in the mid-1990's.  The internet was young.  We weren't, but we were certainly younger than we are now.  This was before the age of targeted, specific websites, and ours did double duty, being both a commercial site (we were selling, or at least attempting to sell, used and rare books) and as a non-commercial collection of more or less useful information.

We no longer sell used books, but we do still provide what we hope is useful information, divided into a few primary categories: Folklore, Book Collecting, Personal Growth, Games and Gaming, Hobbies, and General Interest.  "General Interest" is, of course, a catch-all term, but it certainly sounds better than "Miscellaneous."  Besides, it turns out that we needed to have a Miscellaneous section on our General Interest page.  In any event, the purpose of this page is to provide an index to our General Interest pages.  There's also a search box at the bottom of the page which, admittedly, might be a bit easier than scrolling through this list if you know what you're seeking.....

• Etiquette

  • Flag Etiquette

  • Gift Giving

    • Golf Gifts - Why we have this page we can't say, as we don't golf . . .

    • Magazine Gift Ideas

  • Housekeeping in the Klondike, by Jack London

  • Kindness

  • Laws of Etiquette

  • Love Letters

  • Routledge's Manual of Etiquette

• History

  • American Aborigines

  • The American Idea

  • Ancient America

  • Civil War at a Glance

  • Historic Cats

  • Obtaining a Photograph from the Military History Institute

  • Presidents of the United States of America

  • Stars and Stripes

  • The Winchester Rifle

• Holidays

  • Christmas Traditions

    • Christmas Poetry - And other interesting Christmas tidbits

    • Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus - By Francis P. Church

  • Halloween - Wonderful poem on Halloween by Robert Burns

  • Thanksgiving

  • Valentine's Day

• Miscellaneous

  • Nature Quotations

  • On Adopting a Dog, or Puppy

  • On Mailing Packages

  • Piatt Genealogy

  • Vril, the Power of the Coming Race - by Bulwer-Lytton.  You'd be amazed at what sort of trouble this fictional work caused . . .

  • Watch Movements

  • Why I Don't Write Humor

  • Writing and Editing for the Internet

     

• Music

  • Classical Guitar Recordings

  • Classical Music Labels

  • 100 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time

  • Romantic Music

   

• Poetry and Literature

  • Astrology in Shakespeare's Plays

  • Books for Boys

  • Dagon, by H P Lovecraft

  • Dane-geld, by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Delicious Vice (Novel Reading), by Young E. Allison

  • In Praise of Bulwer Lytton

  • The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe

  • A Rolling Stone, by Robert Service

  • William Cullen Bryant - A Biography

   

• Places in the World

  • Durango, Colorado

  • Marienville, Pennsylvania

  • New England

  • Old South

  • Poultney, Vermont

  • Rio Rancho, New Mexico

  • Saratoga County, New York

Thanks to the nice folks at Google, you can search our site for a particular term or phrase: