https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/ Personal effects of "a mad genius" by Craig Conley. en-us Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT webmaster@oneletterwords.com (Craig Conley) webmaster@oneletterwords.com (Craig Conley) Copyright 2026 Craig Conley. All rights reserved. https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=112543 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td> <table align="right" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td><img width=20 height=1 src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/images/space.gif"></td> <td align="center"> </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan=2><img width=1 height=10 src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/images/space.gif"></td></tr> </table> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe style="text-align: center;" title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/08vGDTlQdFE" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <div></div><br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=112543 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=103003 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>Holly.  From <em>Outdoor Visits</em> by Patch &amp; Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="681" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1727149768.2751.7779.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=103003 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=88221 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Home%20Words%20for%20Heart%20%26amp%3B%20Hearth&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em>Home Words for Heart &amp; Hearth</em> by Charles Bullock, 1899.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="703" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1676772567.2582.5358.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=88221 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=62545 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"Pumpkin seeds changed into pumpkins."  From <em>Elementary Science by Grades Book Three</em> by Ellis Persing and Elizabeth Peeples, 1928.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="787" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1614481183.7344.8733.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=62545 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=87748 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"Following the links until you forget where you began is a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon."  From <em>Internet Magazine</em>, 1995.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1430" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1676154507.7514.9067.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=87748 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=77714 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <em>Chatterbox</em>, 1911.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="649" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1656263538.5496.7272.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=77714 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=61989 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"A face looked back at me" -- a haunted painting from <em>Harper's</em>, 1894.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1258" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1612048655.9364.9448.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=61989 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=67950 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>An illustration by Mary Mapes Dodge for <em>St. Nicholas</em> magazine, 1907.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1465" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1625100553.8517.8090.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=67950 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=86648 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"This'll make you whistle."  From the <em>Bombay Sunday Chronicle</em>, 1937.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="266" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1674420354.6486.8498.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=86648 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=77110 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Aesop%20Five%20Centuries%20of%20Illustrated%20Fables&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Aesop%20Five%20Centuries%20of%20Illustrated%20Fables&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables</a></em>, selected by John J. McKendry.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1003" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1654540485.2539.6674.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=77110 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=83020 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From Hardin-Simmons University's 1977 yearbook.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="735" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1665353416.9828.2216.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=83020 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=67850 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=The%20Mary%20Frances%20Knitting%20and%20Crocheting%20Book%20eayre&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=The%20Mary%20Frances%20Knitting%20and%20Crocheting%20Book%20eayre&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People</a></em> by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="728" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1625075724.8332.1614.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=67850 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=86594 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="524" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1674345378.5372.2437.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=86594 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=86434 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"Buried face down.  When exhumed the body was face upward."  From the <em>Duluth Evening Herald</em>, 1901.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="269" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1673984125.2683.8728.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=86434 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=87391 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"Hurray!  We made it!"  From North Bay Teachers' College's 1968 yearbook.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1121" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1675476186.8814.8102.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=87391