In honor of National Book Lovers Day August 9, we put away our smartphones, pull out a good book and simply read. (Audiobooks are okay too.)
Here’s Hattingdon to get us in the mood.
Dewey Hattingdon.
Books are the purest form of escapism. They can take you to any time, any place, or any culture.
From clay tablets to today’s eBooks, literature has played a crucial role in preserving cultures, educating the masses, and storytelling.
Thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th-century printing press, anyone, not just royalty, monks or landed gentry, could read and own books. But, alas, there was no overnight shipping.
Today, join a book club or re-read a favorite novel because National Book Lovers Day rocks! More »
Dewey
The Dewey Decimal Classification, colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. It was first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
“Dewey” Hattingdon (seen above) is named in honor of the Dewey Decimal System.
Wow. It is National Blogger Day, but what to blog about? How about Hattingdon’s beginning, how she got started, and the first two Hattingdon cartoon horses Vivian created? Let’s go!
It was a dark and stormy night . . . . ha, ha, ha. Just kidding. Wink.
IT was late December, and Vivian was still in Washington DC lobbying on horse protection bills, waiting for Congress to adjourn for the Christmas holidays so she could go home. Everybody else in her organization had already gone, so she was on her own.
To pass the time, she got on her computer, opened up Photoshop and started layering shapes, until she had what you see below — her very first ever cartoon horse. She named him Curtis.
Curtis Hattingdon.
She put Curtis on t-shirts to sell, and away we went. He was a wonderful success, helping to raise money to defray lobbying expenses, and rescue, rehabilitate and find homes for horses with what was left over.
The following Spring, Vivian made another hat wearing cartoon horse — this time a lady. The hat she created was inspired by the fashions seen on the Paris runway. Vivian named the new addition Harper.
Harper Hattingdon.
Vivian wondered, what if her creations got popular and became a series — what in the world was she going to call them? The only thing she knew for sure is that she wanted the word “hat” somewhere in the it. Nothing came to mind.
Then one day, lo and behold, when she was not even thinking about it, the name Hattingdon popped into her head. And that is how it came about.
Not long after that, Vivian created Hattingdon’s first blog. And that, as they say, is history!
“Blogger Day is celebrated on August 5 every year. This day celebrates one of the most popular platforms in the world, Blogger. Anyone who has ever created a blog before has most likely used Blogger. This platform allows people to express themselves for either personal or commercial reasons.
“Some bloggers use blogs to disseminate information and it has been a very good way to consume news ranging from politics to sports, technology, lifestyle, and a host of other topics.
“This day should be well celebrated, especially by the blogging community as it celebrates one of the platforms that contribute to our freedom of speech.”
Thank you for spending time with us. Love, Hattingdon & Co.
There’s nothing like beating the heat with one of summertime’s most refreshing fruit — watermelon. On August 3, Americans celebrate this ancient berry in a feast of juicy deliciousness, called National Watermelon Day.
Hattingdon has the perfect hat . . . . naturally. Here it is. She looks ever so cute.
Melonie.
People have been digging into the tasty, juicy fruit of watermelon for millennia. It all started in Ancient Egypt. It is said that the cultivation of watermelon began in the Nile Valley as early as the second millennium B.C. Watermelon seeds were found in King Tut’s tomb.
According to “The Dictionary of American Food and Drink”, by John Mariani, the word ‘watermelon’ first appeared in the English dictionary in 1615.
WWW (World Wide Web) Day is celebrated on the 1st of August every year. It is a global celebration dedicated to internet web browsing, the online activities that bring the world to our fingertips and a wealth of information at our feet.
Hattingdon just had to have something special to wear. After all, where would she be without the world wide web? So Vivian designed a Skylar scarf for the occasion.
SkylarWWW Day scarf.
Do you know how we got here on the world wide web? Who the father of it all is? Here is a bit of what we found.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA DFBCS.Creator of the world wide web or WWW.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA DFBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He co-founded (with his then wife-to-be Rosemary Leith) the World Wide Web Foundation.
He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server, and helped foster the Web’s subsequent explosive development.
In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. He was named in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention.
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