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Index of Subjects Thanks so much, Patricia. I have not yet read these, but I shall. Cheers, Joan. P.L. Chalmers wrote: > Hi there, > > I think the first is the book which Joan had in mind, but > here are two books critiquing this idea of lawns: > > Title: The lawn : a history of an American obsession / > Virginia Scott Jenkins. > Author: Jenkins, Virginia Scott. > Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, > c1994. > > > Title: American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect > lawn / Ted Steinberg. > Author: Steinberg, Theodore,1961- > Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, c2006. > > Cheers, > > Patricia L. Chalmers > Halifax > > > > At 08:06 PM 17/06/2007, you wrote: >> I've been trying to locate a book published about five years ago >> about the >> lawns in our lives. It's a British book and I remember the review I >> read, I >> think was in the Times and covered the sociological and historical >> look at >> lawns. It's a sore point with me. I am the president of a Halifax >> condo and >> the owners think the grass should look like a golf green( the chemical >> kind). I keep meaning to ask Terry Paquettes brother who is librarian >> at the >> ag college, whether he has heard of it. >> Its awful that we human beings are held to ransom by grass >> Joan Waldron >> >> - > >
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