Drove is a very old word.  Some form of the word was probably in use in England by no later than the 7th century (although there are few written sources to support this).  Drove as a noun meaning herd or flock can be found in the written record from at least the early 12th century, when English was barely recognizable as the language we use today.  In droves turns out to be a fairly old construction.  It wasn’t always applied to a literal flock or herd, even early on.  By the late 16th century the figurative sense was in use, but not necessarily common: a 1596 citation mentions creatures returning to their country in droves (the author was writing about salmon in Scottish rivers).  He tags the description with “as it war” (“as it were”) because he’s using it in a figurative sense:  he doesn’t seem entirely comfortable using droves (“draues“) to describe fish, or in using “their awne cuntrey” (“their own country”) to describe their native river.  (This history courtesy of the OED; the closer reading of “The historie of Scotland” courtesy of The Internet Archive.)  How common has this phrase, in droves, been? Surprisingly, it seems to have become popular only in recent history.  According to our good friend Google Ngrams, the phrase is nearly unheard of in the written record until near the end of the 17th century.  Early references (before about 1750) lean toward actual flocks or herds (of animals) but include people.  Christopher Daly  Read more at https://thebettereditor.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/coming-going-and-out-in-droves/

Boston Cream Pie is a cake, not a pie.  Find recipe for this sponge cake with cream filling and chocolate topping at https://www.chef-in-training.com/2016/05/boston-cream-pie-cake-roll/

Cate Tiernan (born 1961) is the pen name of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American author.  Writing as Cate Tiernan, she is best known for her Sweep series, which follows the Wiccan adventures of a cast of high school students.  The stories are sold as the Wicca series in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Australia, and as White Magic (Magie Blanche) in Italy and France.  Under her own name, she is chiefly known for children's books in the Princess, American Gold Gymnasts, and Disney Girls series.  In 2008 and 2009, Charbonnet collaborated with author James Patterson on two "young adult" novels, Sundays at Tiffany's and Witch & Wizard.  Charbonnet began her college education at New York University studying writing and Russian language and literature, then transferred to Loyola University in New Orleans, where she graduated with a degree in Russian.  She began her career as an assistant to the head of the Juvenile Audio and Video department at Random House in New York City, where she wrote her first children's books.  She also participated in the editing of The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith during this period.  Charbonnet has written about 75 books under her own name, her pseudonym Cate Tiernan, and miscellaneous other pen names as a ghost writer.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate_Tiernan

In linguistics, back-formation is the process of forming a new word (a neologism) by removing actual or supposed affixes from another word.  Put simply, a back-formation is a shortened word (such as edit) created from a longer word (editor).  Verb:  back-form (which is itself a back-formation).  Also called back-derivation.  The term back-formation was coined by Scottish lexicographer James Murray, the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until 1915.  Read about suffix snipping, and find a list of "objectionable” verbs that are variations of already existing verbs (including cohabitate and orientate) according to Garner's Modern American Usage, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2009.  Richard Nordquist  https://www.thoughtco.com/back-formation-words-1689154

NAME CHANGES  Bandleader, bass guitarist, singer and songwriter Nick St. Nicholas (born Klaus Karl Kassbaum 1943)   Actor, author, director and narrator Peter Coyote  (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon 1941)  Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi  (born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó 1882, died 1956)

A Webby Award is an award for excellence on the Internet presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over one thousand industry experts and technology innovators.  Categories include websites; advertising and media; online film and video; mobile sites and apps; and social.  Two winners are selected in each category, one by members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and one by the public who cast their votes during Webby People’s Voice voting.  Each winner presents a five-word acceptance speech, a trademark of the annual awards show.  In 2013, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), Steve Wilhite, accepted his Webby and delivered his now famous five-word speech, "It’s pronounced 'Jif' not 'Gif'." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webby_Award   List of Webby Award winners:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Webby_Award_winners

Collaboration uses col (with) and laborare (to labor together) to mean working with someone to produce or create something.  "A successful collaboration calls for an association of two or more people or entities.  There must be a combination of thoughts, ideas, assignments and activities.  Those involved have  to work in concert with one another, making sure everyone is on the same page."  There is an agreeable partnership, and teamwork includes dividing the tasks and utilizing each person's gift to the fullest.  Advice:  When you go out in the world . . . hold hands and stick together.   All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum  Source:  Michael Bedford in The American Organist magazine  October 2017.

Kern Pioneer Village opened the newly restored boyhood home of country music legend Merle Haggard on April 9, 2017.  The first Haggard Boxcar Festival included live music by Ben & Noel Haggard, Merle Haggard's sons.  Kern Pioneer Village location:  Bakersfield, California  3801 Chester Ave 93301  https://us.eventbu.com/bakersfield/haggard-boxcar-festival/2217648  See also Historic Places Tied to Music Strike a High Note by Katherine Flynn at https://savingplaces.org/stories/historic-places-tied-to-music-strike-a-high-note#.WdOVsVtSyUk  See pictures and read about "Hag's boxcar", Nashville's Music Row, and Atlanta's Tabernacle Music.  

Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012)  The granddaughter of former slaves, Catlett was raised in Washington, D.C.  Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children.  Refused admission to Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race, Catlett enrolled at Howard University, where her teachers included artist Loïs Mailou Jones and philospher Alain Locke.  he graduated with honors in 1935 and went on to earn the first the first M.F.A. in sculpture at the University of Iowa five years later.  Grant Wood, her painting teacher at Iowa, encouraged students to make art about what they knew best and to experiment with different mediums, inspiring Catlett to create lithographs, linoleum cuts, and sculpture in wood, stone, clay, and bronze.  She drew subjects from African American and later Mexican life.  In 1946, a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation enabled Catlett to move to Mexico City with her husband, printmaker Charles White.  There she joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular, an influential and political group of printmakers.  At the Taller, Catlett met the Mexican artist Francisco Mora, whom she married after divorcing White and with whom she had three sons.  Catlett taught at the National School of Fine Arts in Mexico City from 1958 until her retirement in 1976, producing realistic and highly stylized two- and three-dimensional figures.  https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/elizabeth-catlett

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, translator, and lyricist Richard Wilbur died on October 15, 2017 at age 96.  Mr. Wilbur, who worked in the theatre mainly as a translator, was also a Tony nominee for his work as a lyricist on the 1956 Leonard Bernstein musical Candide.  Mr. Wilbur co-wrote the lyrics for Candide with Dorothy Parker and John Latouche.  The show, a musical adaptation of Voltaire's satirical novel of the same name, featured music by Bernstein and a book by Lillian Hellman.  Later productions would include additional lyrics from Stephen Sondheim.  Candide was last revived on Broadway in 1997, where it was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Revival.  In the literary world, Mr. Wilbur was best known as a poet, for which he received numerous honors including a National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes.  His Broadway credits as a translator include a number of French classics by Molière:  Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives, The School for Husbands, and The Imaginary Cuckold.

http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-nominated-lyricist-and-translator-richard-wilbur-dies-at-96  In 1987 Wilbur was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.     When only 8 years old, Wilbur published his first poem in John Martin's Magazine.  His first book, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, appeared in 1947.   In addition to publishing poetry and translations, he also published several children's books including Opposites, More Opposites, and The Disappearing Alphabet.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilbur

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1785  October 17, 2017  On today's date in 1941, the Boston Symphony gave the first performance of a new symphony by a 31-year old American composer named William Schuman.  Schuman had written two earlier symphonies, but these were composed very much under the influence of his teacher, the American composer Roy Harris.  It was hearing one of the Harris symphonies played by the New York Philharmonic that gave Schuman the idea of writing symphonies of his own.  Schuman wrote his first symphony in 1935 and a second in 1937.  The Second was very well received, and had even been played by the Boston Symphony under Serge Koussevitzky.  It was Koussevitzky who commissioned Schuman to write a Third Symphony, and conducted its premiere on October 17, 1941.  It was with this work that Schuman felt he really found his own distinct voice as a composer.  He withdrew his two earlier symphonies, and they were never published.  Composers Datebook