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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
The Bee’s Knee’s

Carol found this little gem in the stacks today:

     


My Backyard History Book, by David Weitzman. It’s a little paperback book from 1975 filled with information and activities to get know your family and your hometown’s history.

 

The book begins like this, “This book is about you, and your grandfather, and his grandmother, and the songs they used to sing, and picnics, and the wagon they used to drive, and the house where your mother was born, and the uncle on your mother’s side that everyone used to whisper about. This book is about attics, and your father’s grandfather’s famous horse.”

        

Originally, Carol showed it to me because it was in our adult section, and it really seems to be geared for children. She asked me if I wanted to move it into our junior non-fiction section.  The truth is neither of us seemed sure of what to do with it, or if we should even keep it in the collection at all!

 

On the one hand, it’s kind of a unique, quirky little book. I flipped through it and found lots of interesting ideas on how to get to know your family and hometown history. The book has directions on how to make a family tree, a time capsule, and how do make rubbings of buildings and engravings and more. Here is a page on slang that your parents or grandparents might have used: 

 

  

 

This section is on machines that your grandparents may have used: 

 

    

 

On the other hand, it is outdated and doesn’t have a lot of cover appeal. Would someone, child or adult, be likely to notice it and check it out? The last check out stamp in the book is from 1993, but when I looked up the in computer it said we didn’t even add it to our collection until 1997! Very mysterious.

 

What do you think? If we keep it, would YOU check it out?

Add a comment  (0 comments) posted by Megan Q.

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