Family Interests

Caring for our cats
Travel
Antique shops
Book stores 
Collecting

Book Collecting Interests

Illinois state documents and Illinois history for the 1818-1840 period 
19th century science and exploration
Darwin books published by John Murray, and books by Darwin's contemporaries
American colonial history, especially King Philip's War. 
 
Some books that have been especially influential for me over the years. 
 
The Bible (the expected example, but true) 
William Hordern, Layman’s Guide to Protestant Theology
Merrill C. Tenney, gen. ed., The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, twelfth printing 1971 (a gift from my grandma Crawford) 
Huston Smith, The World’s Religions 
Mary Burtschi, Vandalia: Wilderness Capital of Lincoln's Land
Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
Barry Block (ed.), The Social Justice Torah Commentary  
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family History
Dan Guillory, Living with Lincoln
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Alfred Kazin, A Walker in the City
Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 
Keith Robertson, Henry Reed, Inc. (childhood favorite) 
Ian Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues.  
T. S. Eliot, The Collected Poems of T. S. Eliot, 1909-1962
Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Jackson
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 
​A Shorter Christian Prayer: The Four-Week Psalter of the Liturgy of the Hours
W. Mauleverer, Twelve Great Sayings of the Mystics  
Curtis Hidden Page (ed.), The Chief American Poets (1905)
R. Carlyle Buley, The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period
Louis Berkhof, A Summary of Christian Doctrine

Some favorite classical music 
 
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony, London Symphony, Symphony #5, Serenade in A Minor: Romance, A Lark Ascending, Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus, Fantasia on Greensleeves, Concerto Grosso, Oboe Concerto, The First Nowell,  Sir John in Love, Pilgrim’s Progress, Hodie, In the Fen Country, In Windsor Forest, Norfolk Rhapsody #1, Sancta Civitas, Dona Nobis Pacem, A Song of Thanksgiving, Three Choral Hymns, Magnificat, The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains, The Hundredth Psalm, etc. etc. 
Faure: Requiem
Durufle: Quatres Motets, Requiem 
Bernstein: Mass
Ginastera: Piano Concerto #1 
Moeran: Lonely Waters 
George Winston: Autumn
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, Psalm and Fugue for String Orchestra, Magnificat
Arnold Rosner: Responses, Hosanna, and Fugue
Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 
Schumann: Symphonies 1-4
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Brandenburg Concertos
D’Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Diptyque méditerranéen
Copland: Rodeo, Appalachian Spring
Beethoven: Symphony #9, Diabelli Variations
Edwards: Maninyas, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Joseph Haydn: Many of his 107 symphonies, e.g. 6, 7, 8, 22, 44, others. 
​Michael Haydn: Many of his 41 symphonies 
Elgar: Serenade for Strings 
Smetana: Vltava  
Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement
Respighi: Trittico botticelliano 
Niels Gade: several of his 8 symphonies. 
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, O Magnum Mysterium, Les Chansons des Roses
Moncayo: Huapango  
Mason Bates: Desert Transport
Ned Rorem: Seven Motets for the Church Year, and others. 
Handel: Water Music, Royal Fireworks, 
“Organ Concertos of the Classical Era"
"Brass 3 Centuries of Golden Sounds" 
Part: Te Deum, Berliner Messe
Monteverdi: Laudate pueri I à 5 
Schubert: Symphony #5
Trumpet concertos of J. Haydn, M. Haydn, Hummel, L. Mozart
Mozart: Too many to list, but especially the wind, horn, and piano concertos, and Marriage of Figaro.  
Howard Blake: Violin Concerto “The Leeds” 
Barbara Harbach: Several of her orchestral and chamber works
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Finzi: Requiem Da Camera
Holst: 2 Psalms, 86 and 148, St. Paul’s Suite
Wagner: his operas and “music dramas” 
 
               and others! 
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Also: classic jazz, 80s new wave, hymns, 70s prog