William Dean Howells’ April Hopes (1887)

William Dean Howells’ April Hopes (1887)

“People do all sorts of things at picnics” is Howells’s paradoxical foreshadowing of a love match that begins on a picnic on the rocky shore of the Bay of Fundy and then goes wrong. Though the picnickers are convivial, they mask their feelings, at...
Emily Post’s Etiquette>/em> (1922) mm

Emily Post’s Etiquette>/em> (1922) mm

“Regard for Others” is Post’s picnic advice heading. It’s not what you might expect because it’s about trash! “People who picnic along the highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name,” Post sputters, “but it is not a pretty object! for...