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A favorite book about Roycroft Campus

One of my personal favorite books about the Roycroft Campus is simply called "The Roycroft Campus". The reason it is my favorite is that it contains over 200 photographs of the Campus. The authors are Robert Rust and Kitty Turgeon.

It is fun to see that much of the campus really remains the same. Some of the images are from original postcards available during the heyday of the Roycroft. The captions are full  of trivia and interesting tidbits of history. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn more about the Roycroft Campus and East Aurora, NY.

You can purchase this book at the Roycroft Copper Shop or online at Roycroft Campus Corporation website.$

Happy reading,

Julie

Trees for Christmas

      As a Forest Ranger’s daughter, I am rather partial to trees. We have a woods on our farm and maple sugaring was a family affair. Gotta love those sugar maples. In New York City a favorite place of mine for tree viewing was the block around the American Museum of Natural History on the upper west side where the whole block is doubly encircled with towering Sycamores - one row on the inside of the wide sidewalk and another row along the street edge of the sidewalk. There were also several huge beech trees I loved in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park whose trunks resembled wet elephant hide after a good soaking rain.

      As a confirmed tree hugger, I have two tree books to recommend at the Copper Shop for the tree lovers on your holiday gift list: a holiday one for the younger set and another for the hiker-naturalist. The Tale of the Not-So-Perfect Christmas Tree by Fran Cruikshank is a joy to read. The illustrations hit the right note of quirky yet homey and the lesson of being fine if not perfect is so, well, perfect for the season that no child should be without this book. The book is told from the perspective of a not-so-perfect Douglas Fir tree hoping to be selected as a Christmas tree. My favorite lines: “And, really, I’m not ashamed of my bad side. It just happened.” For the hiker-naturalist on your gift list is a photo book of Letchworth Park, also known as "The Grand Canyon of The East". Four Seasons of Letchworth by David Lawrence Reade is the first photo book ever published about the park with beautiful images shot through the changing seasons. Share this natural wonder with friends and family across the country.

        These authors were autographing their books at a Copper Shop book signing event after Thanksgiving. Don’t put your visit off any longer. Come in (31 South Grove Street, East Aurora), pick up these books and more special gifts from the large selection in the shop.

-Sue

Visitor to Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Copper Shop Seeks Information

         A few days ago a visitor arrived at the Roycroft Copper Shop seeking information about a book he had purchased at a sale.  The book, roughly 10"x 12", was written by a James F. Jenkins, published by World Letters, Inc. in 1936.  It was described as a beautiful book and the thing that aroused his curiosity  was the many references the author made to "the distance traveled from East Aurora" in one instance he had traveled 3720 miles.  The author also noted the time it was when he was in Morocco and what time it would have been back in East Aurora.

          If anyone has a clue as to who this James F. Jenkins was, and why he was so obsessed with East Aurora it would be nice for the folks at Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Copper Shop to know.  So many visitors from far and wide have been visiting we'd like to know the answer to that question should it come up again.

          The Roycroft Copper Shop on the Roycroft Campus in East Aurora is open 10am to 5pm every day of the week.

Forbes Book Club Features Roycroft Dictionary by Elbert Hubbard

          We have a visitor that came to our blog from the Forbes Book Club site. Elbert Hubbard was a very successful business man. He would be so happy to know that his Roycroft Dictionary would be featured on the Forbes Book Club site.