The high-bush blueberry, along with its cousin, the low-bush wild blueberry native to Maine, is an honest American fruit, a true “local food” that was growing in North America, along...

In his 1915 poem ‚ "Blueberries," Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Frost makes the ordinary experience of picking wild blueberries into an extraordinary endeavor, where you can smell the morning damp and...

Edgecomb Potters celebrates our country's national parks with this inspiring collection of quotations about "America's best idea," presented in a handsome hardcover keepsake edition. Included are quotes from some of the...

In November 1870, Picturesque America was launched by American publisher Appleton & Co. as a "series of papers... consisting of splendidly-executed views of the most unfamiliar and novel features of...

In this piece from 1920‚ originally published as a newspaper article in the Toronto Daily Star‚ young Ernest Hemingway provides solid advice to the novice camper. In his typically succinct...