Very much a window looking out onto the world before us as kids "back in the day." Travel to the Moon, turbine cars, a loved and loving family focused on raising the next set of kids ... we were expected to dream big.
Had I the patience (I don't), I'd probably be adding Braley to my long, long list of public domain things to bring back into print. But formatting poetry in ePub is a horror show (for me at least), even though I know that I'd do the source text files in ASCIIDoc, which is more amenable to formatting poetry than my usual Markdown/Commonmark.
Internet Archive have on line readable and/or downloadable copies of many of his books such as this; https://archive.org/details/cu31924022280485/page/n3/mode/2up
and this; https://archive.org/details/oracleonsmokebei00bral/page/n1/mode/2up
Very much a window looking out onto the world before us as kids "back in the day." Travel to the Moon, turbine cars, a loved and loving family focused on raising the next set of kids ... we were expected to dream big.
His style is so familiar - I think at least one of his poems must have been in the big book of poems that I had from when I was six years old.
Had I the patience (I don't), I'd probably be adding Braley to my long, long list of public domain things to bring back into print. But formatting poetry in ePub is a horror show (for me at least), even though I know that I'd do the source text files in ASCIIDoc, which is more amenable to formatting poetry than my usual Markdown/Commonmark.