Lies last longer than the truth, as fruit is better preserved in wine than water.  (paraphrase)  My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life . . . (preface)  The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, stories by Emma Donoghue

Pollination is the act of transferring pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma for reproductive purposes.  According to curator of education Mitch Magdich, bees pollinate citrus and apple trees; blueberry, pumpkin and watermelon patches and squash blossoms.  Bumble bees are particularly important for tomato crops and honey bees for almond crops.  Research has shown that one in three bites of food humans take depends on pollinators.  Butterflies are perhaps the most loved and appreciated group of insects and pollinators.  A garden with milkweed and sunflowers will encourage monarch butterfly visitation and breeding.  Urban prairies create habitat and food for pollinators.  They look weedy to the untrained eye for the first year.  After a couple of years, native plants choke out the weeds and future maintenance costs are virtually eliminated.  No mowing required.  Safari, the official magazine of the Toledo Zoo, Fall 2016

Beatrix Potter is making a posthumous comeback with the publication of an unseen story featuring an older Peter Rabbit.  The much-loved children’s author died in 1943, leaving The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots unfinished.  It was lost for over a century but has since been unearthed and Roald Dahl illustrator Quentin Blake is working on drawings to bring it to life.  Publisher Jo Hanks rediscovered the manuscript two years ago and chose Blake to illustrate it because he “understands the rebelliousness of animal characters and doesn’t patronise children, which was one of Potter’s bugbears”.  Blake was excited to accept the job after taking an instant liking to the story.  “It seemed almost incredible when, early in 2015, I was sent the manuscript of a story by Beatrix Potter, one which had lain unpublished for a hundred years and which, with the exception of a single drawing, she had never illustrated,” he said.  In 2015, I was sent the manuscript of a story by Beatrix Potter, one which had lain unpublished for a hundred years and which, with the exception of a single drawing, she had never illustrated,” he said.  “I liked the story immediately, it’s full of incident and mischief and character, and I was fascinated to think that I was being asked to draw pictures for it.  I have a strange feeling that it might have been waiting for me.”  Potter described The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots in a 1914 letter to her publisher as being about “a well-behaved prime black Kitty cat who leads rather a double life”.  Hanks found the reference in an out-of-print literary history about the author.  Jess Denham  http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/beatrix-potter-unseen-story-the-tale-of-kitty-in-boots-to-be-published-with-illustrations-by-quentin-a6834181.html

Charlotte Brontë:  An Independent Will  Morgan Library & Museum  September 9, 2016, through January 2, 2017  225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street  New York City  212/685-0008   From the time Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre was first published in 1847, readers have been drawn to the orphan protagonist who declared herself “a free human being with an independent will.”  Like her most famous fictional creation, Brontë herself took bold steps throughout her life in pursuit of personal and professional fulfillment.  This exhibition, presented on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of Brontë’s birth, traces her creative path from reluctant governess to published poet to commanding novelist.  From her earliest literary works—written with a quill pen in a minuscule hand designed to mimic the printed page—to the manuscript of her explosive novel Jane Eyre, the exhibition presents an intimate portrait of one of England’s most compelling authors.  The exhibition is a historic collaboration between two of the world’s finest repositories of Brontëana.  It brings together literary manuscripts, intimate letters, and rare printed books from the Morgan’s rich collection with personal artifacts, drawings, and photographs from the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England.  Highlights include Brontë’s earliest surviving miniature manuscript, her portable writing desk and paint box, one of her own dresses, and a pair of her ankle boots.  Also on view—for the first time in North America—will be a portion of the manuscript of Jane Eyre, from the collection of the British Library, open to the unforgettable scene in which Jane tells Rochester, “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me:  I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”  http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/charlotte-bronte

Bad or Badly?  When you want to describe how you feel, you should use an adjective.  So you'd say, "I feel bad."  Saying "I feel badly" would be like saying you play football badly.  "I feel badly" would mean that you are unable to feel, as though your hands were numb.

Good or Well?  Good is an adjective, so you do not do good or live good, but you do well and live well.  Remember, though, that an adjective follows sense-verbs and be-verbs, so you also feel good, look good, smell good, are good, have been good.  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/536/02/

When William Shakespeare died in 1616, only about half of his plays had ever been printed, in small one-play editions called quartos.  A quarto is a book in which each printed sheet is folded twice—in half, and then in half again—to produce four double-sided leaves, or eight pages.  Another 18 plays are known today only because they are included in the 1623 First Folio, the first collected edition of the plays.  A folio is a large book in which printed sheets are folded in half only once, creating two double-sided leaves, or four pages.  Seven years after Shakespeare's death, John Heminge and Henry Condell, his friends and colleagues in the King's Men, collected almost all of his plays in a folio edition.  The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare is the earliest folio consisting only of an author's plays.  The First Folio sold well enough that it was followed nine years later by the 1632 Second Folio, full of small corrections, then by the 1663 Third Folio and the 1685 Fourth Folio.  The latter two added many new plays, most of which are not today considered to be by Shakespeare.  http://www.folger.edu/publishing-shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.  William Shakespeare  Where words fail, music speaks.  Hans Christian Andersen  Read many more quotes about music at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_music.html

coin of the realm  (1) the legal money of a country  (2)  something valued or used as if it were money in a particular sphere  first known use:  1816

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coin%20of%20the%20realm  The words music, data, information, and survival have all been used as "coin of the realm."

List of poetry awards which have entries on Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poetry_awards

Organizers of the Toledo Jeep Fest are expecting visitors and attendees from across the country on August 13, 2016, as thousands descend on the home of Jeep to honor the brand’s 75th anniversary and celebrate its contributions to the city.  The event figures to be Toledo’s biggest single-day festival in years.  In addition to indoor and outdoor Jeep shows, a parade, multiple Jeep vendors, and 20 or so food trucks, there are children’s events, live music, and two beer gardens.  See The Blade's 75 years of Jeep tab at http://www.toledoblade.com/75-years-of-Jeep  Organizers haven’t wagered a guess to how many people are likely to attend, but more than 800 vehicles were registered.  Jeep got its start in Toledo in 1941 when Willys-Overland won the government contract to build the four-wheel-drive scout cars for the military.  Willys would eventually trademark the Jeep name and go on to build millions of Jeeps in Toledo.  The plant currently has about 5,100 full-time employees.  Tyrel Linkhorn   http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2016/08/12/Toledo-Jeep-Fest-75th-anniversary-party-ready-to-roll.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1512  August 12, 2016  On this date in 1915,  "Of Human Bondage" by William Somerset Maugham was published.  http://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1915/august/12  On this date in 1939, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland and featuring words and music by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Harold Arlen, received its world premiere in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-wizard-of-oz-movie-musical-premieres-in-oconomowoc-wisconsin