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Jowett Cars Ltd. (1920)

Jowett Cars Ltd. (1920)

Exuberantly ushering in the 1920s, Jowett Motor Cars, then a popular English firm, suggested that motoring provided the means to escape from work and the city: “Have you glimpsed a bit of heaven whilst “picnicing” [sic] by the scented pinewood?” Their ad shows a...

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PICNICWIT.com is a comprehensive history of picnics from earliest times to today. It is chiefly an anthology of picnics in the arts, literature, music, and film. It is an enlarged version of the book, The Picnic: A History, by Walter Levy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

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Walter Levy writes about picnics and food from a New York town with one traffic light. He is professor emeritus in English at Pace University, New York.

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The Picnic: A History, by Walter Levy
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