🏡THIS LITTLE HOUSE SHALL NEVER BE SOLD for gold or silver—and she will live to see our great-great-grandchildren’s great-great-grandchildren living in her!”🏡

~The Little House 1942

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Photo of an abandoned construction site downtown.

Do you remember your first read? Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel is one of the few I remember from early childhood. It's about a steam machine that lost out to diesel and found a new life as a boiler. This abandoned construction site reminds me of that book.

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❤️"All the other steam shovels were being sold for junk, but Mike loved Mary Anne. He couldn’t do that to her.”❤️

~Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel, 1939

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🏡“When the Little House saw the green grass and the birds singing, she didn’t feel sad anymore.”🏡

~The Little House 1942

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My favorite 1930s children's book.

I've merged "Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel" with something from many of my nightmares, V'Ger

In the TMP screenplay, the Enterprise is a character

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

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