The Resource My own four walls : a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars, Don Rose ; edited [and preface] by Neil Genzlinger ; illustrated by Leon Rose
My own four walls : a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars, Don Rose ; edited [and preface] by Neil Genzlinger ; illustrated by Leon Rose
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- Summary
- English immigrant Don Rose came through Ellis Island in 1908 at the age of 18. Initially a small-town schoolteacher, he eventually became a popular newspaper columnist for Philadelphia newspapers; his daily column "Stuff and nonsense" took a lighthearted look at an eclectic range of topics. In 1941 he published this memoir of his and his family's life in a ramshackle farmhouse in Bryn Athyn, PA. His grandson Neil Genzlinger, also a journalist, edited this re-issue
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 175 pages
- Note
-
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941
- Illustrator credit from page 7
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Of the landed gentry
- Where's the fire?
- O rare Ben Yerkes!
- In the Pennypack Valley
- On Armistice Day, 1918
- Be the same more or less
- Stretching a shoestring
- My house is haunted
- Hands are for handicrafts
- Curing the smoking habit
- Cobwebs on the classics
- What am I bid?
- Why wives leave home
- Handy man around the house
- Bricks are so plentiful
- Are you a mason?
- Laid on with a trowel
- A garden of good intentions
- The care and feeding of carrots
- The gentleman farmer
- Confessions of a fundamentalist
- I shall miss my debts
- Est mihi rus minimum
- Isbn
- 9781476675930
- Label
- My own four walls : a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars
- Title
- My own four walls
- Title remainder
- a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars
- Statement of responsibility
- Don Rose ; edited [and preface] by Neil Genzlinger ; illustrated by Leon Rose
- Title variation
-
- Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars
- My own 4 walls
- Title variation remainder
- a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- English immigrant Don Rose came through Ellis Island in 1908 at the age of 18. Initially a small-town schoolteacher, he eventually became a popular newspaper columnist for Philadelphia newspapers; his daily column "Stuff and nonsense" took a lighthearted look at an eclectic range of topics. In 1941 he published this memoir of his and his family's life in a ramshackle farmhouse in Bryn Athyn, PA. His grandson Neil Genzlinger, also a journalist, edited this re-issue
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1890-1964
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rose, Donald Frank
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3535.O644
- LC item number
- Z5 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Rose, Leon
- Genzlinger, Neil
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Rose, Donald Frank
- Rose, Donald Frank
- Journalists
- Farmhouses
- Bryn Athyn (Pa.)
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- My own four walls : a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars, Don Rose ; edited [and preface] by Neil Genzlinger ; illustrated by Leon Rose
- Note
-
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941
- Illustrator credit from page 7
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Of the landed gentry -- Where's the fire? -- O rare Ben Yerkes! -- In the Pennypack Valley -- On Armistice Day, 1918 -- Be the same more or less -- Stretching a shoestring -- My house is haunted -- Hands are for handicrafts -- Curing the smoking habit -- Cobwebs on the classics -- What am I bid? -- Why wives leave home -- Handy man around the house -- Bricks are so plentiful -- Are you a mason? -- Laid on with a trowel -- A garden of good intentions -- The care and feeding of carrots -- The gentleman farmer -- Confessions of a fundamentalist -- I shall miss my debts -- Est mihi rus minimum
- Control code
- on1039615621
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- viii, 175 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476675930
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1039615621
- Label
- My own four walls : a Philadelphia newspaper columnist as homesteader between the wars, Don Rose ; edited [and preface] by Neil Genzlinger ; illustrated by Leon Rose
- Note
-
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941
- Illustrator credit from page 7
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Of the landed gentry -- Where's the fire? -- O rare Ben Yerkes! -- In the Pennypack Valley -- On Armistice Day, 1918 -- Be the same more or less -- Stretching a shoestring -- My house is haunted -- Hands are for handicrafts -- Curing the smoking habit -- Cobwebs on the classics -- What am I bid? -- Why wives leave home -- Handy man around the house -- Bricks are so plentiful -- Are you a mason? -- Laid on with a trowel -- A garden of good intentions -- The care and feeding of carrots -- The gentleman farmer -- Confessions of a fundamentalist -- I shall miss my debts -- Est mihi rus minimum
- Control code
- on1039615621
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- viii, 175 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476675930
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1039615621
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