Our linoleum woodcut emblem
Once upon a time,
we published a little magazine, Vulcan Weathervanes,
dedicated to our newfound interest in simple living,
and it was in concert with our weathervane-making shop
in the garage behind the yardlight sign above.
The production of the magazine was done on a manual typewriter
and run off on a mimeo machine. Very limited
and exclusive circulation, i.e., it went to anyone would take
a copy. Died a natural death within a year
but we delivered the promised goods. (12 issues)
We had a Centerfold in the middle of the little magazine that featured
some simpler machine, such as push lawn movers, one speed bikes,
an old Maytag wringer washer,
a basement shower stall, and the one we enclose today
was writer Mary Hontros's tribute to her treadle sewing machine.
She wrote it as though the sewing machine was speaking.
We know something of that, machines speaking.
The Singer we use as our desk in the Raccoon News
is also a treasured treadle machine with a message,
cased in beautiful wood.
Reference:
shoestring medium; no computers then
Orduration by moonlight
DD 1976
This issue, VW No. 7, has become something of a collectors item.
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There is a man in this world
who is never turned down
wherever he chances to stray.
He gets the glad hand
in the populous town,
or out where the farmers make hay.
He is greeted with pleasure
on deserts of sand,
or deep in the aisles of the woods.
Wherever he goes there’s a welcoming hand –
he’s the man who delivers the goods!
