Wind Vane
The wind vane, or weather vane, is the simplest and oldest of weather instruments. As far back as 100 b.c., the Greeks mounted wind vanes atop statues of their gods. These functioned as orna...
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Basic ConceptAnyone who's seen old chocolate box tins will know what a cottage garden looks like: an array of flowers and shrubs, arranged in no particular order with a path running through it. The...
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Early LifeBorn in 1938,
Fred
was fascinated by steeplejacks – ‘the little black men’ – since childhood. Of particular appeal was their laid back attitude to life and the V...
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Hill and Bill cry and pry their way into a squeaker victory in New Hampshire. (Who cares if the blogosphere is crackling with questions about those curious voting machine vs. paper ballot discrepan...
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Colonial Williamsburg is more than costumed interpreters in tricorn hats making speeches about revolution or craftsmen demonstrating silversmithing and other trades.The restored 18th-century capita...
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Michael Brooks is exactly the kind of voter the Republican Party can ill afford to lose. But in a foreboding omen for 2008, it may have already done just that.The auto parts store worker from St. C...
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Wind Vane
How to Create a Cottage Garden
