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The New Traveller's Almanac

Those familiar with "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" will recall that Sherlock Holmes retires to Fulworth to keep bees.


Distichs of Cato

He cites Cato in Poor Richard's Almanac and believed in the moral advice with such fervor he was troubled to print James Logan's translation called Cato's Moral Distichs Englished in Couplets in 1735, the first in the Colonies.

Lauri Wylie

His major success, "Dinner for One", possibly written as early as the 1920s, premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1948, and was later presented on Broadway in 1953 in the revue Almanac by John Murray Anderson.

The Pharmer's Almanac

Despite rumors of a coming seventh volume, the publishers retired the series after a second print run in 2002, and have no plans to renew it.

Kevin Cassels (drummer of rock band Mother Vinegar) and Richard Northrop released the largest (and final) volume in 2000, shortly before the band's hiatus.

In 2001 and 2002, standalone appendices to the Almanac for the two years of hiatus were published.

The Writer's Almanac

In 2005 the program was briefly cancelled by Kentucky public radio station WUKY due to concerns about purportedly indecent content in some of the poems read on the program.

West Boylston, Massachusetts

West Boylston's most famous historical resident is Robert Bailey Thomas, the founder of the Old Farmer's Almanac.

West Virginia Route 2

The poem was featured on the October 26, 2006 edition of The Writer's Almanac radio program.


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