What is it about nooks and crannies that appeals particularly to the writer? The phrase conjures up corners and cracks Swiss-cheesed with mystery. These are the dark places from which most of us like to write.
While a google search for “nooks and crannies” yields the name of an organizing LLC, a florist, a yarn and fiber shop, and the definition “a remote place to be explored,” no Wikipedia entry exists, surprisingly, for the phrase itself. You can, however, find references to the n’s & c’s in such wiki’s as “Thomas’” the famed English muffin master; in “Black Banana” a nightclub in Philadelphia; in “El Tiradito” a crumbling shrine in Tuscon; and in the “Wooton desk,” a late 19th century drawer-besot bureau.
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If I could, I would like to add the Ferril House to the Wiki directory of nooked and crannied niches, and I believe one of our wonderful young writers, Maddie Solomon (a 5th grader at Lowry Elementary), would too. She who wrote an amazing article for The Denver Post about the Ferril House’s cubbyholes and their contents. You can read it right here.
