While he was an AmeriCorps volunteer at Pearl S. Buck Birthplace,
Michael Toler, now of Boston, Massachusetts, kept a blog about the
Birthplace and a collection of photos on Instagram.
Toler never thought to combine the words and images in a book until
his friend, graphic designer Martin Magee, made the suggestion...
The blog referred to in the quotation is, of course, the one you are reading now. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book benefit the Birthplace, so get your copy now.
Check out some of the new items in the Birthplace Gift Shop. In addition to note cards and other items featuring images of the Birthplace, we've now carry Good Earth Organic Tea, and it has already proven to sell well. Most varieties of tea originated in China, India or elsewhere in Asia thousands of years ago, so it was astute for this company to take their name from Pearl Buck's best selling novel. It's delicious tea, too!
We recently placed an order for some of Pearl S. Buck's novels in paperback to offer for sale in the gift shop, and they've already arrived. They will certainly make and attractive display, with their bright covers, but I was disappointed to find that you can no longer order new copies of The Exile or The Fighting Angel, the two books that most directly talk her parents' lives in West Virginia and the time she herself spent at the Birthplace.
It seems the books are no longer in print. That is unfortunate. I am reading the The Exile now and finding it very interesting. So much so that as soon as I've finished this biography of her mother, I will proceed to that of her father, The Fighting Angel. Of course from our perspective, these are also the books it makes the most sense for us to stock. Many of the stories we tell on our tour come directly from them.
The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace has partnered with Amazon.comso that a portion of the proceeds from your purchases at the world's most successful e-commerce site can benefit the birthplace, provided you begin your shopping from any of the links embedded on the sites of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation. We have also begun listing items available for sale in our Gift Shop on Amazon at www.amazon.com/shops/PearlSBuckBirthplace
People all over the world can already purchase from our Gift Shop via our web site, and the inventory will generally be much more complete. The advantage offered by Amazon is that it lists our products alongside all other results whenever anyone searches on relevant terms. So someone who is a fan of Pearl Buck and is searching for her her works would see the limited edition, new signed copies that you currently have to go to our website to see in their search results.
On Tuesday, June 26, 6:00 p.m. Jim Minick will be at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace for a dual purpose event, sharing tips on raising wild blueberries and reading from his award-winning, 2010 book, just released on paperback, The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. A variety of delicious, homemade blueberry treats will also be available!
The Blueberry Years captures the story of Minick’s experience creating and operating one of the mid-Atlantic’s first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms. For a decade, the author and his wife planted, pruned, and picked while also opening the field to hundreds of people who came to harvest berries. These pickers shared blueberry-flavored moonshine and sober religion, warm hugs and cool hats, and always bushels of stories.
The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace has joined the Amazon Associates Program. Click on any of the links in this post to purchase the book through Amazon, and a portion of the sales will benefit the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace through this program. Whenever you begin your Amazon shopping from a link on a site of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace a percentage of the proceeds of anything you purchase will benefit our work. You can begin your search in the box below.
We recently placed an order for some of Pearl S. Buck's novels in paperback to offer for sale in the gift shop, and they've already arrived. They will certainly make and attractive display, with their 
, but I was disappointed to find that you can no longer order new copies of 
so that a portion of the proceeds from your purchases at the world's most successful e-commerce site can benefit the birthplace, provided you begin your shopping from any of the links embedded on the sites of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation. We have also begun listing items available for sale in our Gift Shop on Amazon at 
. A variety of delicious, homemade blueberry treats will also be available!