Remembering the Family Encyclopedia
A nostalgic look at a defunct part of American cultural life.
7 min readMar 15, 2020
I was recently cleaning out my Grandma’s house, and I came upon a very old and somewhat battered set of World Book encyclopedias. I’d known they were there — they were a staple of my Grandma’s house for as long as I could remember — but seeing them somehow brought back all of the many times that I’d…