Before the Vinyl Cafe radio show (and maybe during) Stuart McLean was on a show called Morningside and this book The Morningside World of Stuart McLean is a collection of the essays he wrote for that. Here are stories about the pencil, the game Monopoly, the popsicle, the Jersey Cow, shoveling snow and more. One, about a groundskeeper for an old, grass baseball field (where you mowed, not vacuumed) was so interesting it sent me looking for a book on that very subject! This is a sweet, charming, nostalgic book and I opted to read just one essay every morning to make it last.

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