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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau
Stories
First published in The Children’s Book of Thanksgiving Stories in 1915, this French fairy tale by P. J. Stahl tells of a kingdom so obsessed with sweets that their king orders a colossal tart to satisfy them, only for indulgence to bring ruin. A gently comic lesson in moderation and gratitude.
In Fannie Wilder Brown’s The Thanksgiving Goose, a boy’s complaints about his Thanksgiving dinner lead him to a neighbor’s bustling kitchen, where a family with little to spare is joyfully making mince pies. Their simple gratitude teaches him a quiet lesson in thankfulness, just in time for the holiday.
A sweeping look at Demeter’s evolution from earth-mother to goddess of agriculture, this excerpt traces her central role in Greek myth, from the abduction of Persephone to the origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries, revealing how ancient storytellers used her tale to explain the seasons, civilization, and the promise of rebirth.
In Perrault’s Donkey-Skin, the grotesque and the marvelous collide: a princess, pursued by her father’s delusion, cloaks herself in a beast’s hide and vanishes into obscurity. She keeps her splendor hidden until a ring, slipped unnoticed into a cake, reveals her secret and restores her to love, dignity, and a rightful place in the world.
The opening part of Geronimo’s Story of His Life moves from an Apache creation story to memories of homeland, tribal divisions, games, medicine, and family, Geronimo’s own account of who his people were before war and conquest. Told late in life from Fort Sill, these chapters sit at the crossroads of myth, cultural history, and memoir.
Modern Ghosts explores how specters have adapted to the styles and anxieties of modern fiction, shifting from the sprawling Gothic novel to the sharper, more psychological short story, and expanding their powers from pallid wraiths to vivid, corporeal, and even humorous presences. No longer bound to castles or midnight hours, these ghosts haunt trains, bedrooms, and everyday lives, reminding us that while mortals fade, the ghost never goes out of fashion.
Parties
Friendsgiving
Where Thanksgiving insists upon ritual, Friendsgiving thrives on invention. Its visual language is culled from the eccentric margins of history: an etched turkey with exaggerated plumage, children dwarfed by improbable gourds, abstracted florals painted in jewel tones. These fragments, reshaped into placemats, puzzles, invitations, and table dressings, turn the table into a stage for chosen family.
Crafts
Halloween Shop
Christmas Shop
