A copse (or coppice)—a grouping of trees and shrubs—was akin to a clump or thicket in the choice and the arrangement of vegetation.  A copse, however, was sometimes distinguished from these other features by virtue of its association with husbandry.  Copses were thinned regularly by removing branches and limbs, which were then used for purposes other than ornamentation by the landowner.  According to Walter Nicol (1812), this practice of trimming trees and shrubs also distinguished a copse from a wood, since the former included trees and shrubs that were never permitted to grow to “any considerable size.”  

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1847, excerpt from “Walden”:  

“There [in my garden] broad-armed oaks, the copses’ maze,

The cold sea-wind detain;

Here sultry Summer over-stays

When Autumn chills the plain.”  https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Copse 

Thomas Rhodes Rockwell (1933–September 27, 2024) was an American author of children's books.  Rockwell was the son of the American artist Norman Rockwell and his second wife Mary Rockwell, a school teacher and unpublished author.  He grew up in Arlington, Vermont, a very rural small town.  He attended a one-room schoolhouse; there were 23 students in his high school graduating class.  His early mentors were Jim and Clara Edgerton, local farmers.  He attended Bard College.  Rockwell said that he always wanted to write.  He was co-writer of his father's 1960 autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator.  He got the idea of writing children's books when he started reading to his own son, Barnaby.  His wife Gail illustrated several of his books.  His best-known book is How to Eat Fried Worms (1973), about a boy who accepts a US$50 (equivalent to $340 in 2023) bet to eat one worm per day for 15 days.  Although it was rejected by 23 publishers before finally coming out in print, the book sold 3 million copies and received the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Book Award.  It was made into an animated TV episode of CBS Storybreak in 1985 and a 2006 film.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rockwell    

The Persimmon Festival celebrated its first year in 1947 when longtime Mitchell, Indiana educator and native, George Bishop, came up with the plan to start a three-day festival in late October as a homecoming for those who called Mitchell their home.  From there, the festival grew into a week-long celebration that encompasses Spring Mill State Park as well as downtown Mitchell as an all-volunteer staff of community members plan nightly musical entertainment, craft shows, fantastic food offerings, a carnival, a historical re-creation, car shows, queen contests, and fun for people of all ages.  http://persimmonfestival.org/?page_id=2   

The persimmon (/pərˈsɪmən/) is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros.  The most widely cultivated of these is the kaki persimmon, Diospyros kaki–Diospyros is in the family Ebenaceae, and a number of non-persimmon species of the genus are grown for ebony timber.   In 2019, China produced 75% of the world total of persimmons.  Like the tomato, persimmons are not berries in the general culinary sense, but its morphology as a single fruit derived from the ovary of a single flower means it is a berry in the botanical sense.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon 

Art Deco proper noun

A style of decorative art (often used in household objects) and architecture originating in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by bold geometric forms, strong contrasting colours, and simple composition.  It is also marked as World Architecture Day by the International Union of Architects.  It is marked as World Architecture Day by the first Monday of October in 2024, is designated by the United Nations as World Habitat Day.  Wikipedia   

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