I’ve included other books on barns in this blog, but this one was near and dear to my heart: Old Barns of Whatcom County, with photos and poems by Jeff Barclay. I have seen many of these on my travels throughout the county and was pleased to see them so beautifully presented … the photographs are wonderful!

We all know from our history classes that the Blitz went on for weeks, but what was it like that very first day? Peter Stansky writes about that in The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940. He draws on diaries, personal interviews, newspaper accounts, and so on to recreate what started as a beautiful autumn day … it was tea time, too, and the alarms had sounded before for little or no actual reason so many Brits stayed where they were. Well done, well written, compelling.

Reading Hermit With Dog