Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 doll house balustrades Its prior owner seems to

Its prior owner seems to have added an extra underline under BIG and a couple of extra exclamation points at the end--and also to have banged it around some and sliced it a few times with a blade

it occurs to me how deeply embedded is our tendency toward linear organization

constructed around what looks to me like a pail

or could be hung by the hole in his back

threadbare between the flags at top and just below "Powow River" on the front side

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 doll house balustrades Its prior owner seems toI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had