Did Almanac. We hope that you find lots to help you enjoy everyday. How effective are the weather forecast for the farmers, due to climate change?? Some of the content would certainly be relevant and enjoyed by others, but we only publish the printed book in North America.
We do sell an online digital version in www. Can you please tell me who is the author of the Farmer's Calendar essays in the issue of The Old Farmer's Almanac? Klopfenstein, Many thanks for this tribute. We shared your kind words with the entire staff. To answer your question, the writer was Benjamin aka Ben Rice. Ben wrote the Farmer's Calendar essays from through before he passed away.
He lived in Peterborough, NH. You may also find it interesting we published a book c. It is no longer in print, but you can find used copies. As of today, we saw a copy on Amazon. I'll be challenged here I suppose. We inherited our father's collection of almanacs. Many thousands from many regions, states, and publisher's themes back to the late 's.
He bragged about having the largest private collection in existence. Now I need to decide whether to keep these packed away in banker-boxes forever or find a proper home for them. Dad deeply believed in the preservation of history via literature. This is only one of his accumulations of old literature and relevant "items", but is the topic at hand on this site. I would appreciate wiser opinions than my "guesses" at how to handle these. Out of the dozen's, if not hundred of titles one special title, according to Dad, is the Ayer's American Almanac, Lowell, Mass circa , was his special complete set for reasons I don't recall while many others were of varying degrees of "completeness".
Again, any wise guidance is appreciated. Hi, Mike, Your dad must have been quite a guy. We can give you some ideas; but in case one that you had is to offer this collection or part of it to us, we must say, "No, thank you. What to do? It is difficult to impossible to know if anyone or organization will want any issues. And, honestly, it might take some time to figure out who, if, where, etc. You could pursue any in your area or in the nearest major city you did not give your location or even on the internet.
For them, condition is paramount, and rarity and demand quickly follow. A library or other related org historical society, for example there may have an interest. Consider this re any pieces of the collection that refer to specific cites or regions.
They may be best able to provide some guidance or help you to establish the collection's value or lack of , individually or as a whole. The company has scanned millions of books billions of pages?!
But it might be worth a try. Kudoes to you for trying! It's a great tribute. Good luck—. Mike, I would be interested in purchasing some of your father's collection. I have a fireproof safe, as well as safety deposit boxes.
I could guarantee his preservation would not be in vain. Please contact me via email justin. Thank you. Plese write to the University of Lowell. They have a huge archive collection if you might be willing to donate. I'm in Ontario, Canada.
If so is there one for Canada? Here in Berwick, an old industrial town, Franklin printed thousands of copies of his calendar from to Franklin wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Saunders.
Richard Saunders was an English physician and astrologist who wrote under the pen name of Cardanus Rider which in rearranged letters is Richard Saunders. The name Poor Richard was adapted from another British almanac, Poor Robin which was first published in The almanac was a best seller in the American colonies printing up to 10, copies a year.
Its success brought wealth to Benjamin Franklin. Household tips ranged from advice on music in the household it should comfort each member to destroying red ants. The secret: Dip a sponge in hot lard and place it on the shelf where they appear. Lincoln read from the almanac that the moon was in the first quarter and about to set on the horizon when the murder took place. The first almanac in America was printed in in Cambridge, Mass.
He was born April 24, in Grafton, Mass. Robert helped out with farm chores and attended the district school. He then bought textbooks in sheets and bound them and sold them to nearby storekeepers and schoolmasters. Publishers in Philadelphia later produced almanacs that were read all over the colonies.
Over its year run, from to , Poor Richard was a sensation, reinventing the almanac for American sensibilities. The familiar Franklin persona — the pithy sayings, the thrift and enterprise, the boundless curiosity — has its origins in Poor Richard. Its cultural impact was massive. Collections of witticisms drawn from its pages became bestsellers in their own right, and many of its proverbs are still familiar to every American: Fish and visitors stink in three days.
Make haste slowly. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Many meteorologists are skeptical of these forecasts. Further, their reliance on precedent — using weather patterns from past years to extrapolate the future — requires no real scientific skill. Though both publications make extravagant claims for their correctness — each declaring that its forecasts have, by its own metrics, an average accuracy of eighty percent or more year-over-year — objective examination casts doubt upon their assertions.
Along with accepted meteorological tools like computer-aided climate models, almanac prognosticators claim to factor in phenomena such as sunspots, which are not proven to affect terrestrial weather.
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