Project Gutenberg 2004-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 77 Grayson, David 1870 1946 Adventures in Friendship Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sjaani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Adventures in Friendship" by David Grayson is a collection of reflective essays written during the early 20th century. The work explores themes of camaraderie, human connection, and the simplicity of rural life through a series of anecdotes that highlight the warmth found in everyday interactions. The narrative voice is introspective, often weaving together personal experiences and philosophical musings about friendship and community. At the start of the book, the narrator recounts an amusing encounter with a man who embodies various fraternal organizations—Masons, Oddfellows, and Elks. This meeting leads the narrator to ponder the nature of true friendship, feeling a sense of disconnection despite the man's friendliness. As he drives home, he reflects on the joys of the natural world around him, realizing that he belongs to a broader fraternity: the Universal Brotherhood of Men. This epiphany brightens his mood, leading him to extend friendliness to strangers, even humorously addressing a passerby as “Brother.” This opening sets the tone for a journey through friendship, where moments of joy and connection emerge from everyday life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography Farm life -- Massachusetts -- Amherst Region Amherst Region (Mass.) -- Social life and customs Grayson, David, 1870-1946 PS Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature 227879 226457 2024-10-05T05:28:17.519421 2023-10-05T06:09:21.929311 text/html text/html 230317 2020-12-20T01:25:31 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1910612 2020-12-20T01:25:31 text/html application/zip 1825915 2024-10-05T05:28:24.870900 application/epub+zip 1824396 2024-10-05T05:28:20.906429 application/epub+zip 142769 2024-10-05T05:28:19.605382 application/epub+zip 1981813 2024-10-05T05:28:27.758902 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1966190 2024-10-05T05:28:24.056891 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 262681 2022-09-05T08:38:06.061101 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 211893 211819 2024-10-05T05:28:16.747432 2023-10-05T06:09:21.435316 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 213207 2020-12-20T01:25:31 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 83255 2020-12-20T01:25:31 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 213198 2020-12-20T01:25:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 83230 2020-12-20T01:25:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22407 2024-10-05T05:28:27.890843 application/rdf+xml 15109 2024-10-05T05:28:20.161384 image/jpeg 4014 2024-10-05T05:28:19.880422 image/jpeg 2312433 2024-10-05T05:28:17.646462 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under Baker, Ray Stannard