Drinking In Catherine Drinker Bowen

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 This pristine Saturday morning, before breakfast or devotions, I pick out my father's 1950 volume of John Adams by Catherine Drinker Bowen form my "antique books" bookcase.

Seated at the dining room table by the window with a dry 70 degree Florida breeze flowing by, I read her first chapter.

It just may be that David McCullough doesn't own the corner on historical biography.

Bowen made reading century old history as enjoyable as indulging in a plate of chocolate croissants.

I wonder if she's done Alexander Hamilton...

Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973) Photo credit unknown.