I would like to attend a literary festival where the audience contains a row of attentive owls. [The following is from a guide book to St Mary's, Westham]

Local artist (she mainly creates welded metalwork) Marie Ahearn inspired by Melville:

May you enjoy your weekend as much as this family of piping plovers (from the Saco River Wildlife Center) is enjoying theirs:

Ok, not my pet, but this is Raffi, who lives in Baltimore:

I remember this story from when I was a child. Your only hope of escape is if a rich lady loses her diamond bracelet in the salad.

That's beautiful! Add Oasis Falafel, some places to get pie, and you're all set.

🦉 Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), ‘Mimizuku on a maple branch’. Colour woodblock print, Japan, 1830–1840s. [from the British Museum]

But they look so lonely outside of the quotations. Look at the poor little full stop, perched at the end of a sentence all by itself without a word to comfort it!

A lot of books would be improved with some 17th-century styling. Forget glossaries! Try this [from Gervase Markham's A Way to Get Wealth, 1631]

Ok, so this is the first time I've ever seen a theater advertise a poetry recital: man performs T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Am I just a yokel who's never seen this before? Any other examples out there?