The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn

Author: Matthew Bannister

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2023-04-06

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1501390104

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The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and film. Their debut album Songs from The Front Lawn (1989) distilled McGlashan and Sinclair's theatrical stage show and their groundbreaking short films, Walkshort and The Lounge Bar, while also thrusting the band into the burgeoning New Zealand indie scene. The album is a snapshot of '80s New Zealand, a turbulent, creative period for indie music, indie film and musical theatre, celebrating local identity in new ways. Starting with a social and cultural background of New Zealand in the late 1970s, the book covers McGlashan and Sinclair's upbringing on Auckland's North Shore, early artistic influences and overseas experiences leading to the formation of the group. Much attention is paid to the duo's philosophy, early performances, the process of recording the album – including The Front Lawn's collaboration with Wellington avant-garde/cabaret group Six Volts and the addition of Jennifer Ward-Lealand as the group's third member – and analysis of each of the album's 10 songs. In parting, Matthew Bannister discusses the group's second and final album, More Songs from The Front Lawn, as well as the individual members' subsequent artistic careers

Front Yard Gardens
Front Yard Gardens

Author: Liz Primeau

Publisher: Firefly Books Limited

Published: 2010-03-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781554075980

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In Front Yard Gardens, Primeau explains how an environmentally friendly and well-planned front yard garden is a small step toward healing the damage done by pesticides and other lawn-care products. This book covers planning and designing, and outlines the steps involved in removing grass, enriching the soil and planting. Primeau discusses the key elements of various front yard garden styles, gives tips on how to create and maintain the garden, and provides lists of complementary plants.--COVER.

New Front Yard Idea Book
New Front Yard Idea Book

Author: Sandra S. Soria

Publisher: Taunton Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1600853714

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Curbside appeal goes a long way, and not just when homeowners are selling a house. Everyone wants to create a "wow" inspiring first impression and today's savvy homeowners are looking for expert advice and ideas that goes beyond the traditional lawn and foundation plantings.New Front Yard Idea Bookoffers the best design information from experts to inspire homeowners everywhere. Lushly illustrated with 325 4-color photographs, no other book focuses on this essential public area. The book is simply overflowing with inspiration for all the front-yard spaces, including the entrance, porches and porticos, gardens and arbors, paths and driveways, fences and gates, and landscaping and lighting. As readers set out to refresh and enhance their front yards, the first step is sit down with this invaluable reference.

The Lawn
The Lawn

Author: Virginia Jenkins

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1588345165

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Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.

The Front Yard
The Front Yard

Author: Constance Fenimore Woolson

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1775560945

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Constance Fenimore Woolson's fiction is heavily concerned with the notion of place and the ways in which the culture, traditions, and customs of a particular locale can influence the attitudes and relationships of the people who live there. This theme is front and center in many of the stories collected in The Front Yard, which draw heavily on Woolson's own experiences in Europe.

The Last Yard Sale
The Last Yard Sale

Author: Marie LeClaire

Publisher: Marie LeClaire

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1946338249

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When Marybeth stumbles upon an extraordinary yard sale, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. Psychic visions explode in her mind as she touches each of four items for sale. Reluctantly, she takes them home. One by one, the objects and the visions reveal family secrets that force her to re-examine who she is. With a little heart and some dry humor, she forges ahead. Meanwhile Josh Anderson, a lonely writer, breaks free from his self-imposed isolation to undertake a heartbreaking task of his own - emptying the home of his recently deceased mother. When their business relationship turns romantic, old fears take over. Will she be able to let go of the past and open herself up to love again? Will he?

These Trees Tell a Story
These Trees Tell a Story

Author: Noah Charney

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2023-05-16

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0300271298

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A deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history Structured as a series of interactive field walks through ten New England ecosystems, this book challenges readers to see the world through the eyes of a trained naturalist. With guided questions, immersive photography, and a narrative approach, each chapter adds layers of complexity to a single scene, revealing the millions of years of forces at play. Tying together geology, forest ecology, wildlife biology, soil processes, evolution, conservation, and more, Noah Charney shows how and why landscapes appear in their current forms. Charney’s stories and lessons will provide anyone with the necessary investigative skills to look at a landscape, interpret it, and tell its story—from its start as rock or soil to the plants and animals that live on it. Ultimately, Charney argues, by critically engaging with the landscape we will become better at connecting with nature and ourselves.

Creating Reading Rainbow
Creating Reading Rainbow

Author: Barbara Irwin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-06-18

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1493077333

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Reading Rainbow is one of the most successful PBS children’s series in television history, earning numerous national and international awards including 26 Emmys and a Peabody Award. But perhaps more important than anything else, Reading Rainbow helped generations of children cultivate a love for books. Reading Rainbow is very much a story of humble beginnings and enormous perseverance. Over five summers, Tony Buttino Sr. and his colleagues at WNED-TV, the public television station in Buffalo, New York, worked in collaboration with educators and librarians to experiment with summer reading programs. But after trialing these programs, the WNED team realized there was a big need for a new children's literacy series and believed they could create a new show with local and national collaborators and friends. After fits and starts, and enough twists and turns to fill a children’s book, Reading Rainbow premiered in the summer of 1983 and captured the attention of 6.5 million young viewers. Creating Reading Rainbow explores the many intriguing and homespun stories that, when woven together, reveal how this groundbreaking and iconic television series came to be. What led to the series being called “Reading Rainbow”? How did the road to Reading Rainbow wind its way through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood? How did a public television station in Buffalo spearhead a movement in education and spark the passion for reading in millions of children? And, what does lasagna have to do with it?