The Picnic Basket

From Picnics for One, to Occasion Picnics this book leads the reader through a description of Picnics of Love, Spectator Picnics, Backpack Picnics and Theme Picnics, offering suggestions for How to Choose your Guests, Getting Ready, Settings, Equipment, Wines and other Beverages, and wonderful recipes for each type of picnic. is a well written guide to any kind of picnic and the pages are full of unusual suggestions of entertaining, picnic style.

Dolly: Her Story

Dolly’s life spanned the history of the 20th century, from farm life to the walk on the moon. The second child in a family of ten children, the death of her mother and father launched her from a tiny farming village in northern New Brunswick, Canada, to the streets of Boston. She trained to be a nurse, was involved in World War l, the Spanish Flu Epidemic, the financial Crash of 1929, the changing world of women, and World War ll, all while trying to honor her commitment to her dying mother to “please keep my children together.”