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Woodcraft, a story for youngsters, including those now aging, D. Raymond-Wryhte

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Woodcraft

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D. Raymond-Wryhte

a story for youngsters, including those now aging

"Woodcraft shares reminiscences of childhood experience, dating back to the late 1950's and early 1960's, as if told by a grandfather to his grandchildren during meals, just before bedtime, and while walking in the woods. From time to time those of every generation ask themselves, "Which of the aspects of our past ought to be relegated to the rubbish heap of history, and which are valuable heirlooms that ought to be passed forward into the future?" Jesus said, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household who brings out of his treasure things new and old" (Matthew 13:52). Not everything old-fashioned is old. Not everything old is old-fashioned, which is to say that not everything old is obsolete and out-of-date. Indeed, some things old are better than the same things new. Woodcraft does more than ring chords of nostalgia. It looks back not just to induce good feelings of old vibrations, but to remind that some things old ought to remain because they are vibrant and vivacious and vital, because they remain new. Woodcraft may itself be a new kind of writing in its blend of literary fiction and creative non-fiction. It deals with facts of faith, with theology and philosophy and ethics. It also touches upon a number of other subjects: German-American history, mathematics, music, carpentry, woodworking, forest ecology, plant physiology, silviculture, and popular culture now half a century old. The entire story celebrates education in matters both natural and supernatural, temporal and eternal, physical and spiritual."--Page 4 of cover