Mr. Beecher’s weekly newspaper “syndicate” letter was not only successful in itself, it made liberal money for the writer and for its two young publishers, but it served to introduce Edward Bok’s proposed agency to … Read More
Keeping Up with Conservation: Restoring habitat with Duke Energy
Throughout 2022 and with support from a grant from Duke Energy and supplemental funding from the Florida Forest Service, the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP) has worked to restore sandhill habitat adjacent to Bok Tower … Read More
Starting a Newspaper Syndicate: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 8
Edward felt that his daytime hours, spent in a publishing atmosphere as stenographer with Henry Holt and Company, were more in line with his editorial duties during the evenings. The Brooklyn Magazine was now earning … Read More
Phillips Brooks’ Books and Emerson’s Mental Mist: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 6
Read Chapter 5 No one who called at Phillips Brooks’ house was ever told that the master of the house was out when he was in. That was a rule laid down by Doctor Brooks: … Read More
A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 4
Edward Bok had not been office boy long before he realized that if he learned shorthand he would stand a better chance for advancement. So he joined the Young Men’s Christian Association in Brooklyn, and … Read More
Keeping Up with Conversation: Protecting Florida Goldenaster
(This photo shows a newly transplanted seedling at the end of an irrigation injector line and a blue tag with its number designation.) Through funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Rare Plant … Read More
The Hunger for Self-Education: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 3
With school-days ended, the question of self-education became an absorbing thought with Edward Bok. He had mastered a schoolboy’s English, but seven years of public-school education was hardly a basis on which to build the … Read More
The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 2
The Elder Bok did not find his “lines cast in pleasant places” in the United States. He found himself, professionally, unable to adjust the methods of his own land and of a lifetime to those … Read More
The First Days in America: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 1
The Leviathan of the Atlantic Ocean, in 1870, was The Queen, and when she was warped into her dock on September 20 of that year, she discharged, among her passengers, a family of four from … Read More
The Continuation of Edward Bok’s Work After His Death
Created by The American Foundation, this epilogue can be found in the 1973 edition of The Americanization of Edward Bok and reviews the efforts and accomplishments achieved by the group after Edward Bok’s death in … Read More
