Birds of the Neighborhood

Not much is known about Moore, whose weekly contributions to a Philadelphia broadsheet were collected in 1933 by essayist Susan Eagleton-Smith. According to Eagleton-Smith, Moore lived in the Holmesburg area of Philadelphia, just off of Pennypack Creek, where he tended a large garden that was home to the birds that he observed. Each week of his life, since at least the spring of 1908, Moore wrote a small, lyrical passage about "the birds of the neighborhood." These essays were rarely very informative in terms of natural history, and they sometimes strayed far from common local-interest journalism.



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