Folkways
Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants
and Their Most Famous Recipes by Clarence E. Edwords
Clarence E. Edwords’ book is both a culinary history that remains a reference
and a reminder of just how different San Francisco has always been, despite
how we think it just recently became the capital of the unconventional.
Gilded Play: Mary J. Jacques’s Pranks and Pastimes
Introduced by Devin Proctor
This “Book of Games, Parlor Performances and Puzzles” is a reprint of an
original 1888 edition that promised the wealthy hours upon hours of diversion
from boredom with guessing games, pantomimes, word games, outlined
charades, and so on. In its use of traditional European games mixed with
American stereotypes, it is a unique look into the temperament of the times.
Naturism in the United States:
Frances and Mason Merrill’s Nudism Comes to America
This controversial book has been a stalwart part of the reading lists of
those attracted to naturism. The complex relationship that involves nudity
with disciplines as disparate as yoga and environmentalism makes the
subject perennially pertinent. Frances and Mason Merrill traveled widely
and exhaustively to produce a survey of permanent usefulness.
Lariats and Lassos:
Bernard S. Mason’s How to Spin a Rope
This short introduction to the basics of the lasso was almost a bible to
generations of backyard enthusiasts. Certainly it is a reminder of a time
when having fun did not require a flat screen.
Outlining Magic Circles: Jessie Bancroft’s
Games for the Playground, Home, School, and Gymnasium
Introduced by Devin Proctor
Games for the Playground, Home, School, and Gymnasium, first
published in 1909, has been called “the most comprehensive and
scholarly book on games.” It contains rules and variations of hundreds
of games for schools, summer camps, and parties.
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