A donkey engine was an integrated machine consisting of a powerplant and gearing that turned one or more drums or winches containing wire rope.  Designed to lift, drag, and move logs from the stump to an accumulation point, donkey engines were also used to load logs on cars that transported logs to distant mill sites.  Though invented in California, the donkey engine helped accelerate timber harvesting throughout the Pacific Northwest.  It was used extensively in Oregon and contributed significantly to the state's economy and culture from the late nineteenth well into the twentieth century.  After the railroad, the donkey engine was the next major application of industrial revolution technology to the movement of logs.  Prior to the invention of the donkey engine, logs had to be moved by gravity or brute force, usually in the form of hand labor or by using teams of oxen or horses.  The advent of the steam-powered donkey engine made high-volume, mechanized logging possible, thus ushering in the era of large-scale logging and lumbering during the early years of the twentieth century.  John Dolbeer of the Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company of Eureka, California, is generally credited as the inventor of the donkey engine.  He first tried out his invention in 1881, and the device was patented in 1882.  Many innovations followed, including the use of wire rope, the addition of more cylinders, and multiple drums.  Edward Kamholz  https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/donkey_engine/#.W7jugHtKiUk

Donkey Riding  Children's Song from Canada 

1.  Were you ever in Quebec  Stowing timber on the deck?  Where there's a king with a golden crown  Riding on a donkey. 
Chorus:  Hey, ho! Away we go!  Donkey riding, donkey riding.  Hey, ho! Away we go!  Riding on a donkey.
2.  Were you ever off the Horn  Where it's always fine and warm?  Seeing the lion and unicorn  Riding on a donkey.  (Chorus)
3.  Were you ever in Cardiff Bay?  Where the folks all shout, "Hurray!"  Here comes John with three years' pay  Riding on a donkey.  (Chorus)

See the musical score and link to two music videos at https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=4894

The early Massachusetts Puritans fined anyone who celebrated Christmas.  Connecticut even banned mincemeat pies.  But then along came Charles Dickens, who characterized that puritanical view as -- well, Scroogelike.  Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in England on Dec. 19, 1847, and it sold out by Christmas Eve.  England's Victorian readers loved the story of the old miser transformed into a kinder man after three ghostly Christmas visits.  When Dickens arrived in Boston n 1867, children still had to attend school on Christmas Day.  Neither New Hampshire nor Massachusetts law recognized December 25 as a holiday.  But Christmas customs were spreading in New England.  A wave of Irish-Catholic immigrants put holly on their doorways, candles in the window and a family feast on the table at Christmas.  College professors returned from their studies in Gemany with stories of gift giving and Christmas trees.  In 1832, a German Harvard professor named Charles Follen brought a Christmas tree to a party in Cambridge, Mass.  Before the Civil War, Salem minister William Bentley recorded in his diary the growing holiday practice of decorating with evergreens.  By 1856, New Hampshire's Franklin Pierce put up the first Christmas tree in the White House.  And in 1860, Sarah Josepha Hale published a picture of a Christmas tree in her popular ladies magazine.  The tree came to symbolize home as the Civil War separated families.  Union soldiers decorated Christmas trees with salt pork and hard tack.  Soldiers on both sides began to link the day with homecoming.  Dickens gave a special reading of A Christmas Carol at the Parker House to the Saturday Club, which included his American friends:  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  Then he gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol on Dec. 3, 1867 at the Tremont Temple in Boston.  On Christmas Eve in Boston, a businessman named Fairbanks watched Charles Dickens read A Christmas Carol.  The reading moved him so much he closed his factory on Christmas Day and sent every worker a turkey thereafter.  Scholars credit Charles Dickens with influencing Christmas traditions in New England with A Christmas Carol and other Christmas tales.  He helped create the enduring imagery of  roaring fires, jovial squires, the Christmas turkey and caroling children.  He even coined the phrase 'Merry Christmas.'   Most important, he helped transform Christmas from a day of drunkenness into a day of charity.  According to Charles Dickens, Christmas allowed people, like Scrooge, to change into kinder, more generous selves.  Finally, Christmas became a day to bury the hatchet, as Scrooge made up with Bob Cratchit.  In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant tried to reconcile the torn nation by declaring Christmas a national holiday.  http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/charles-dickens-brings-christmas-carol-boston-2/

The oldest printed Parker House Rolls recipe on file is from an April 1874 issue of the New Hampshire Sentinel, and they have been a favorite in homes and restaurants ever since.  Aimee Tucker Link to recipe at https://newengland.com/today/food/breads/biscuits-rolls/parker-house-rolls-recipe-history/  Find recipe for fellow Parker House creation Boston Cream Pie at https://newengland.com/today/food/boston-cream-pie-6/

It’s been 100 years since the Allied nations and Germany signed the armistice that ended World War I, the call for a ceasefire coming at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, which is being commemorated in an historical exhibition at the Carlson Library at the University of Toledo.  Remembering World War I is on view through Dec. 14, 2018 at the library, which is located in the center of the university campus, 2801 W. Bancroft St., between the Student Union and the Ottawa River.  It will include historical war artifacts and photographs from collections of Richard Oliver and the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections.  The university is also hosting a symposium, Memories of World War I, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. November 9, 2018 in Carlson Library, Room 1005.  The free event put on by various university and other scholars will offer local, national, and international information and also look at art, music, theater, and other culture.  For more information about the show or symposium, go to  libguides.utoledo.edu/CLWWI, or call 419-530-2323.  At the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., a public art installation, Reflections of Hope: Armistice 1918, by artist Ada Koch, features 117 metal poppy sculptures in the memorial Reflection Pool.  Each poppy in the installation represents 1,000 American soldiers killed during the war.  The exhibit will stay up through Armistice Day.  Roberta Gedert  See picture of Reflection of Hope at https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/peach-weekender/2018/11/08/ut-library-exhibit-shines-light-on-world-war-i/stories/20181102145

Robert Indiana’s estate is selling two works from the late artist’s collection to fund its ongoing litigation.  The works, by Ed Ruscha and Ellsworth Kelly, could fetch a combined sum of more than $4 million when they hit the auction block at Christie’s post-war and contemporary day sale on November 16, 2018.  The executor of Indiana’s estate, James W. Brannan, a lawyer in Maine, said the estate urgently needs money to cover mounting legal fees so it can continue to defend itself against a lawsuit filed in a Manhattan court.  The Ruscha work, Ruby, is estimated at $2 million-3 million, while Kelly’s Orange Blue is expected to fetch $900,000-1.2 million. In the federal suit, filed shortly before Indiana’s death in May 2018, the artist’s business manager accused Indiana’s caretaker and publisher of deliberately isolating the elderly artist.  He also accused him of manufacturing and selling fake works attributed to Indiana, including a sculpture commissioned by a sausage manufacturer that said “BRAT” (for bratwurst), which was stylized in the same formation as the artist’s iconic “LOVE” series.  The estate also needs money to repair Indiana’s crumbling former home on the island of Vinalhaven, which is listed as a landmark.  The artist’s will dictates that the house be turned into a museum dedicated to his life and work that will be run by an independent foundation.  Henri Neuendorf  See picture of Robert Indiana's The Great American Love (Love Wall) at

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robert-indiana-estate-sells-art-for-legal-fees-1389931

A self proclaimed “American painter of signs,” Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana on September 13, 1928.  Adopted as an infant, he spent his childhood moving frequently throughout his namesake state.  His artistic talent was evident at an early age, and its recognition by a first grade teacher encouraged his decision to become an artist.  In 1942 Indiana moved to Indianapolis in order to attend Arsenal Technical High School, known for its strong arts curriculum.  After graduating he spent three years in the U.S. Air Force and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in Maine, and the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.  http://robertindiana.com/biography/

“Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again” is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from November 12, 2018  through March 31, 2019.  Read extensive article by Hilarie Sheets and see many pictures at https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/curator-whitneys-warhol-show-mission-show-artist-youve-never-seen-1386064   Whitney Museum:  99 Gansevoort St in Manhattan  (212) 570-3600

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com   November 9, 2018  Issue 1984  313th day of the year  Word of the Day  arrowroot  noun  From Arawak aru-aru (literally “meal of meals”), influenced by arrow +‎ root because the plant’s “roots” (more accurately rhizomes) are used on wounds from poison darts to absorb the poison.  large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long with white stripes. [from late 17th c.] quotations ▼ Usually preceded by an attributive word:  some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot quotations ▼  A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener.  Read more and see pictures at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arrowroot#English