Though today Sylvester Graham’s name is most often associated with the sweet, crunchy graham cracker, the man behind it was anything but sugary.
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 A box of National Biscuit Company food crackers, circa 1915, which was priced at ten cents. Internet Archive. (No restrictions) | | The Man Behind Graham Cracker | | By Brian D'Ambrosio | | Though today Sylvester Graham’s name is most often associated with the sweet, crunchy graham cracker, the man behind it was anything but sugary. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 📚 Book Review: “Happy Semiquincentennial America!”—the countdown begins: Author Jay Payleitner highlights what Americans have to celebrate on its 250th birthday. 🎶 Music: A terrible voyage led to an inspiring composition: Felix Mendelssohn disagreeable trip to London eventually took him to Scotland’s Hebrides and the awe-inducing Fingal’s Cave. 🍿 Film & TV: “Went the Day Well?”—tea, biscuits, and betrayal: The story takes place in the quiet fictional village of Bramley End, where a group of British soldiers arrives one weekend and is greeted with open arms. The locals offer them tea, conversation, and the kind of country hospitality that could make anyone drop their guard, including invaders. Everything seems normal until small details begin to look wrong. | | | |   | | ‘The Yosemite’: A Love Letter to Nature: In the same vein as 18th-century horticulturist and explorer William Bartram’s “Travels,” portraying meanderings through the American Southeast, John Muir’s “The Yosemite” enables readers to experience through sensory imagery every jot and tittle of his wanderings in California’s Yosemite Valley. Read more → | | | | |
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