"The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." --New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press). "Genuinely a classic..." --Lo

For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Henry Mitchell's Washington Post "Earthman" columns is "equal part

A collection of the author's columns, originally written for the Washington Post, appearing on Fridays under the title "Any Day."

Henry Mitchell's writing "combined the cadences of the Book of Common Prayer with the timing of Jack Benny. He was humble, cantankerous, ironic, and forbearing.

This book provides a detailed discussion of all of the processes involved in planning a school building. From a discussion on how to organize the local staff to