The musings of a disappointed idealist
The following posts contain a variety of books and inscriptions, and we’ll keep updating as the quest continues. Please have a look through them. I encourage you to share your own thoughts about them. And if you have found some inscriptions of your own, by all means, click here and share them! I’d love to be able to include them!
Thanks!
- Donna Q
This book apparently was purchased on a visit to Kit Carson’s home. The owner carefully cataloged related stops along the way. It’s easy to imagine this person enjoying purchasing and reading the book while on the visit.
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I hope the Arnolds enjoyed the cookbook. Candidly, I’m just relieved that there were no intentional (or unintentional), unfortunate alliterative misspellings of the “Kountry Kooking'” variety.
After more than three hours of inscription hunting, we were just about to throw in the towel and call it a day, and we discovered this amazing inscription from 1894! It gave us chills and David almost cried, what a big old sentimental marshmallow. 🙂
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This amazingly large and heavy tome is also really lovely to look at… and chilling to think about. Translated from the German, it’s titled The Protestantism of the Present, and, from the information we can find online, was published in 1929. Just imagine. Germany. 1929. Before the horrific, awful years to come. We really wish this book could talk and tell us more about its travels, about those who held in their hands through the years.
We included a couple of extra photos so you can see not only how beautiful it is but also how big.
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