Date: 3/14/26 9:08 am From: Lynn Risser <lynnkrisser...> Subject: Re: Crip's relative is back (Fayetteville)
You can easily get *Crip, Come Home *with Abe's Books or Thriftbooks. As
one commentor said, it is an "endearing " read. It is not sentimental, but
it is, I agree, lovely. It should be reprinted.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 10:52 AM Joseph Neal <
<0000078cbd583d7c-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> A Brown Thrasher is singing out in my yard this morning in Fayetteville.
> And right on time. They nest in my yard and often show up in second week of
> March.
> This annual event reminds me very much of Arkansas’s most famous Brown
> Thrasher – Crip, the thrasher that nested for many years at Morrilton in
> Ruth Thomas’s yard. She wrote a lovely book about Crip and the ecology of
> what she named Crip’s Hill.
> “Crip, Come Home” was published in 1950. Sections of this book first
> appeared in her columns in the old Arkansas Gazette. Her writings played an
> important role in founding of Arkansas Audubon Society.
> The book is out of print. But thrashers still return to our yards, as did
> Crip. The book is still a great read.
>
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