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
Association With Henry Ward Beecher: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 9
As a letter-writer, Henry Ward Beecher was a constant wonder. He never wrote a commonplace letter. There was always himself in it — in whatever mood it found him. It was not customary for him … 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
A Plunge Into Wall Street: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 7
Read Chapter 6 The father of Edward Bok passed away when Edward was eighteen years of age, and it was found that the amount of the small insurance left behind would barely cover the funeral … 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
Going to the Theatre with Longfellow: The Americanization of Edward Bok Chapter 5
When Edward Bok stood before the home of Longfellow, he realized that he was to see the man around whose head the boy’s youthful reading had cast a sort of halo. And when he saw … 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