Stillmeadow Books
Provides a month-by-month account of rural life in a seventeenth-century Connecticut farmhouse restored by the author.
The author shares a year of discovery and adventure spent in her 1690 Connecticut farmhouse
From the author of the much-loved Stillmeadow books, this is Gladys Taber's very personal account of how she dealt with the deep grief she experienced following the sudden illness and death of her lifetime friend and housemate "Jill" (aka: Eleanor). Although written 50 years ago in the early 1960s, her experience has a timelessness that will speak to anyone coping with such loss. Lovers of the Stillmeadow books will enjoy this one, too, as Stillmeadow figures prominently throughout the book.
A lovely journal of the seasons from the author's comfortable old Connecticut farmhouse.
Of all Gladys Taber's books, Stillmeadow Album is the one that ma be most cherished. This is an irresistible big book with 60 pages of Stillmeadow photographs and facing pages of description and reminiscence that will be read and reread with intimate pleasure.
Gladys Taber was an American author, educated at Wellesley and Lawrence College. Well known for her magazine column “Butternut Wisdom”, she offered common sense advice and simple wisdom. The importance of her writing may be that she celebrated the simple things and advised others to do the same. ‘I suppose children grow more in spite of their parents than because of them. The one vital factor is love, and neither children nor adults flourish without love. Love is to human beings as the sun is to plants.'
An affectionate portrait of the author's Abyssinian cat interspersed with practical advice about the care of cats
Anthologizes seven Stillmeadow books spanning three decades that provide a seasonally oriented overview of country life and old-fashioned charm