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True Story of Winnie the Pooh | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

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True Story of Winnie the Pooh | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

In the main branch of the New York Public Library, there lives a group of wild animals that call the children’s section home. Together, in one cage, are a young pig, a donkey, a tiger, a kangaroo, and a bear known the world over as Winnie-the-Pooh. The bear is not the red-shirted “tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluffȁ found in cribs around the world, more a regular ole’ fuzzy variety, a simple knock-around bear. But he’s still Pooh, a bit matted down, a bit overly loved, but in great shape considering he’ll soon be 100 years old. The original Pooh is amazingly still alive, well into the 21st-century, in both literary and animated forms.

20th century

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The Twentieth Century is here, bellowing like a bull; but in quieter coves, families still make do with what they haveβ€”or do without. It’s a big country, ours is. – Foxfire Book, Volume 1 Pg 134

The Foxfire Series Of Survival Books – NAGUAL

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The Foxfire Series Of Survival Books – NAGUAL

Back in the 70's, when I was in High School and read my first Castaneda book, I was also reading the "Foxfire" books on survival, as it was the hip thing to do if you were an aspiring teenage backpacker in the mid 70s. There is something in those books in the way of attitude, which I would identify as the "warrior's way." It seemed to mesh very well with understanding Don Juan. I think the coincidence of reading these books at the same time as Castaneda's, made me approach it in a more sober fashion somehow, it was definitely a bit of luck, so that is why I'm including a link to them here. (The Foxfire books don't have anything to do with this militia site the PDF's are on, and I'm not sure if it is legit for them to be putting them online, so I would just download them all while you still can.)

NPR

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Researchers To Recreate Historic European Scents In $3.3M Study : NPR

The team will then work with chemists and perfumers to recreate around 120 scents — with the plan to help museums integrate them into exhibits to create an immersive step into history.

"If there's one thing that I hope will come out of this project, it's that the people that we interact with will go away thinking, what are the smells around me every day?" Tullet said. "How can I train my nose a bit better and engage with the smells around me?"

During the Bubonic plague, you might have smelled burning tar or rosemary, which was believed to ward off the disease. As the world faces another global pandemic, our smell-scapes are being changed again, he said.

Scent is precious, and that's even more apparent during the pandemic, he said. One of the symptoms of the coronavirus can be a loss of smell. Once it's gone, many people realize how important it is, he said.

Rural Resettlement Administration

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I’ve been trying to learn more about the Rural Resettlement Administration. 🚜

Did families benefit from their government resettlement or did they end up suffering over the long term? A lot has been written about the Japanese resettlement in the World War and the Indian Resettlement program to encourage natives to move off reservations in the 1950s but not about the earlier program. That’s why I shared that article earlier about Rexford Tugwell. Didn’t answer my question but still interesting.