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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Witch Hazel

"There ain’t hardly no hurt the woods don’t have medicine for.” p.78

Witch Hazel in flower

Si Griffiths, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Witch hazel blossom in winter

DoristheExplorist, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wild Blackberries

Caballero1967, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Hollyhocks

Image courtesy of Eden Brothers

Iris

Image courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica

Hickory Nuts

PookieFugglestein, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Black Locust trees

Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Wren

CheepShot, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Keywords

Assuage: to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses).  (MW)

Beholden: being under obligation for a favor or gift. (MW)

Celluloid: a tough flammable thermoplastic composed essentially of cellulose nitrate and camphor. (MW)

Corona: something suggesting a crown. (MW)

Distillery: where distilling (as of alcoholic liquors) is done. (MW)

Hedgerow: a row of shrubs or trees enclosing or separating fields. (MW)

Oilcloth: cloth treated with oil or paint and used for table and shelf coverings. (MW)

Profusion: great quantity : lavish display or supply. (MW)

Sideboard: a piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for holding articles of table service. (MW)

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