“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
–Edgar Watson Howe
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2013
I started this one while in Kansas City and I finished it this morning. It was fun.
Boy, the sign shop sure is busy! I don’t know whether to flip, flop or fly! I’m going to stay offline for the most part, and try to get a handle on it. Yesterday was spent entirely on getting new orders into the computer and getting some designs completed. Whew! It’s crazy!
Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937), American author and editor, wrote realistic regional and romantic novels and coined widely circulated aphorisms.
Edgar Howe was born on May 3, 1853, in Wabash County, Ind. He acquired much of his education while learning and practicing the printer’s trade, and he eventually became a journalist.
Howe was editor and proprietor of the Atchison (Kans.) Daily Globe (1877-1911) when he wrote his first and most famous novel, The Story of a Country Town (1883). Harshly realistic, it portrayed, in a rather colorless but easygoing style, the hopeless lives of men and women in two midwestern prairie towns. Unable to place his novel with any publishing house, Howe ran it off in his own printshop. It was a great success. It was praised by such prominent contemporary writers as William Dean Howells and Mark Twain, and years later it was rediscovered and hailed as a classic. Later Howe turned from realism to romance in The Mystery of the Locks (1885) and The Moonlight Boy (1886), which were less successful. More…
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