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mmadigan - That is the book. Thank you so much for the link to that article. Very interesting all around - how few copies sold when first published, the families feelings about it as well as the update of the families now.
I know that authors don't receive many free copies of their books from publishers but not to have sent a copy to each family after living with them and eating their food...really what would it have cost them to send a copy to each of the 3 families as well as a small check for room and board. I can only shake my head that they sat at those kitchen tables and ate their food but it didn't cross their minds that they should have contributed food or money at the time or later.
The title of the book is from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach (44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us". The Wisdom of Sirach is also known as the Book of Ecclesiasticus. It is not to be confused with Ecclesiastes.
"Sirach is accepted as part of the Christian biblical canons by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most of Oriental Orthodox. The Anglican Church does not accept Sirach as protocanonical, and say it should be read only "for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth not apply them to establish any doctrine."[5] Similarly, the Lutheran Churches include it in their lectionaries, and as a book proper for reading, devotion, and prayer. . .The Roman Catholic Church declared it to be canonical in 1546 during the fourth session of the Council of Trent.[6]"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirach
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