11th June, 2020 – Mowing
Episode description
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Robert Frost, Mowing.
"There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground..."
From the show:
On this day: 11th June, celebrating Barnabas the apostle
On this day: 11th June 1578, Sir Humphrey Gilbert receives letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I, giving him authority to colonise north America and begin the British empire
The Love that Lays the Swale in Rows – an essay on technology based on Frost's poem Mowing
Music to wake you up – Kokomo by The Beach Boys
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