"Ittoen (Kosenrin, Yamashina, Kyoto). Collecting bamboo shoots -- in spring the diet was takenoko and mgimeshi for days at a time"--Notes from D. Plath.
Includes ledger kept by Emanuel Mericle from 1863 to 1865 and five letters written by Martin Mericle to his brothers while he served with the 114th Ohio Infantry Regiment in the Civil War.
Alicia Brown recently returned to an interest in art that she had as a young girl. Her early studies in art began at the Des Moines Art Center and later she pursued sculpture in the Netherlands. After a career as a professional dancer, she taught at…