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To: Constant Reader who wrote (270)	10/20/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 410

Thanks for reminding me, I want to read that book. It's about Loudoun county, which is contiguous to Fairfax, but west, and more rural. It looked very good. One thing which ought to interest Rambi, and Gauguin, although he doesn't post on this thread, is that it's made up of columns she wrote for a local paper, at least that's what I read in the Washington Post book review. In case you don't know it, Rambi writes occasional columns for her local paper, and although Gauguin doesn't, he should, IMO. I need to go to the library, anyway. Nicholas, my younger, has to make a 3-D representation of a cell, it's one of those sixth-grade rites of passage, and for reasons known only to himself, told the teacher he wanted to do one in needlepoint, and not to worry, his mother would show him how. Oh, the fearless trust of the young. And she approved. And I don't really know how to needlepoint. I got a wild hair and wanted to needlepoint a few years ago, and bought some books, and even a kit. If you knew me at all, you wouldn't be surprised to read that the first kit I bought was for a unicorn tapestry, 20"x20", nor would you be surprised to read that I only finished one corner. My excuse was that I needed bifocals (I just turned 47), but now I have them, and have no other excuse except that I've discovered SI, and also discovered that one can buy reproduction tapestry wall hangings from places like Design Toscano (so far, a reproduction of William Morris' Woodpecker, and a reproduction of the Navigo panel from the Bayeax tapestry. When I go to New York this autumn, I want to go to the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and see if they have other William Morris reproductions, I really love him.) (Yikes, it's autumn already!) But how to explain all that to an eleven year old? So I must go to the library and get a beginner's introduction to needlepoint, and we will learn together. I suspect that's what he had in mind, anyway. One of the few men I understand.