Over the Back Fence….

After my request for snail mail re our book club, our daughter, Michelle Culmore, castigated me, telling me in no uncertain words that Book Club members also needed an electronic forum so that they could talk to each other about our books and book-related thoughts and questions.  So I bow to superior wisdom.  We hereby start now.  Each week we'll throw out discussion igniters, and you can take it from there.  Besides these, feel free to throw out your own.  Sometimes I think the Book Club is running away with my blogs.

WALDEN DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Week 2 (Feb. 8) – 
Question #1:  Today, in schools and colleges, neither industrial arts nor home economics is taught any more.  Nor do we generally learn such things at home.  So what percentage of us are capable of constructing a cabin such as Thoreau's?  Is that a good thing or a bad thing?  Why?

Question #2:  Thoreau grew his own food, prepared and ate it; ought we to do the same?  How much of our epidemic of obesity and diabetes results from our inability to cook and prepare food at home?  What ought we to do about it?