Author Jack Sanders explores the lives and lore of more than 80 of North America's most popular wildflowers, describing the origins of their names, their places in history and literature, what uses ancient herbalists found for them, what uses they have now, where they grow, how they reproduce, and how to grow or transplant them.

Hedgemaids & Fairy Candles: The Lives and Lore of North American Wildflowers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Sanders, Jack

Gardening & Landscape Design

McGraw=Hill

A one-of-a-kind directory to the best of the Net for outdoor family fun: a comprehensive selection of more than 2,000 of the best websites, forums, and newsgroups covering outdoor activities the whole family can enjoy. Includes everything from archery and astronomy to windsurfing and zoos. INTERNET OUTDOOR FAMILY FUN YELLOW PAGES is the fast, easy, fun way for the family to use the Internet to plan an enjoyable trip to the great outdoors, follow your favorite sport--or discover the adventure of a lifetime.

The Internet Outdoor Family Fun Yellow Pages: The Online Guide to the Best Outdoor Family Sites

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Intl Marine Pub Co

A directory to more than a thousand Internet sites devoted to birds and bird watching

Internet Guide to Birds and Birding: The Ultimate Directory to the Best Sites Online

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates, village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes. Ridgefield: 1900-1950 offers more than two hundred of these glimpses of a bygone time of affluence and change-what one historian has called Ridgefield's golden era.

Ridgefield: 1900-1950 (CT) (Postcard History Series)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

For over 25 years, Sanders has delved deeply into the subject of wildflowers in his award-winning newspaper column. This volume features elegant, two-page scenic line drawings depicting each season's flowers in their native environment. 95 illustrations.

Hedgemaids and Fairy Candles: The Lives and Lore of North American Wildflowers

Biological Sciences

Tab Books

In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter "reminiscing" about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s. He invented characters and events and wrote with irony and affection for those better times. Mencken rose instantly to the challenge and wrote a letter in similar vein. For three years the correspondents tried to out-do each other in telling tall stories. Sanders has reconstructed and annotated this correspondence.

Do You Remember?: The Whimsical Letters of H. L. Mencken and Philip Goodman

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The Maryland Center for History and Culture

Hidden History of Ridgefield, Connecticut

Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefield's history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a landmark Manhattan hotel, her neighbor who invented one of the first "helicopters" and a CIA operative who helped one thousand Americans flee Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Lesser known are the stories of the Ridgefield artists who gave the world Superman and Lowly Worm and brought the Wild West to life. One local writer helped make Hawthorne famous, while another penned thousands of hymns still sung around the globe. Join retired newspaper editor Jack Sanders as he uncovers nearly forgotten people and moments of Ridgefield's past.

The History Press

Ridgefield is no stranger to life's shadier characters. The history of this idyllic community includes cunning crooks, suburban embezzlers, bungling burglars and wandering scallywags. In 1894, a group of bank robbers literally blew it in a heist at the Saving Bank--the explosion attracted witnesses to see the gang miss out on a grand haul of fifty dollars. Half a decade later, in 1940, a skeleton whose origins still befuddle experts was unearthed in a tree nursery. This look at the darker side of Ridgefield's past includes sad and tragic moments as well, such as newlyweds imprisoned in the Tombs, the Satanists of the '70s and a hermit murdered for love. Local editor Jack Sanders tells fascinating tales of two centuries of Ridgefield criminals, n'er-do-wells and even wayward do-gooders in this entertaining--and occasionally humorous--glimpse into some of the town's wickedest moments.

Wicked Ridgefield, Connecticut

Historical

The Secret of Wildflowers is a colorful tribute filled with odd, little-known facts and wonderful superstitions about some of North America's most beautiful and common plants. This book includes natural history, folklore, habitats, horticulture, uses for plants, and origins of names. More than 100 species of North American wildflowers are included and all are organized by blooming seasons.

Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast Of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, And History

LYONS PRESS+

Jack Sanders's colorful tribute to wildflowers is bursting with odd facts, ingenious uses, and bizarre superstition about some of North America's most beautiful and common plants. There are more than 10,000 varieties of wildflowers in North America, some rare, some so plentiful that they are designated as invasive weeds. Each has a unique story. There's Bouncing Bet, a perennial common along the roads and railroad tracks of America. Like many of our most abundant summer wildflowers, Bet was brought over to fill colonial gardens. It's a beautiful plant, but also a useful one. Open up the stalk and its sap makes a fine soap. Colonial beermakers used to put a dab in to help the head on a brew. Doctors used it to wash wounds. Generally considered a weed, it's everywhere. Or Coltsfoot, which pops up almost alone in winters, and was used in New England as a cure for coughs, the leaves boiled down in water. Asthmatics, Sanders tells us, used to smoke it for relief. For many years, apothecaries in France used Coltsfoot as its symbol, a surprising pedigree for a neglected "weed." More a companion than a field guide, THE SECRETS OF WILDFLOWERS is a must-have for anyone who enjoys a walk in a meadow or a gaze outside.

The Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History

Lyons Pr

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