Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?
The National Button Society, founded in 1938, established Button Day as a celebration of collecting and crafting buttons. While I don't intentionally collect, I do have a bag full of randoms.
It is believed that the first button can be credited to the Indus Valley Civilisation, of the Bronze Age in South Asia. It was made from a curved shell and was used as ornamental embellishments.
For practical purposes and design, buttons have been with us for a while.
One of the reasons I went with this today is the new book I started.
I'm not very far into it, but Gwendy has just received the button box. As I read the description, I was picturing these kinds of buttons, not just any button - but then I realized I don't even know what a button box is!
A musical instrument?
I don't know, so far Gwendy's dispenses an impossible kind of chocolate, and the mysteries are left to her to figure out. There's a button each for the 6 populated continents, and an everything button.
Also in reading, I did finish The Vampyre by Polidori. You can see how it set the tone for future tales.
And before I went to the library I read The Dunwich Horror by Lovecraft. Nice surprise at the end.
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