twined

Their fates have been twined from the start, and this past weekend they threw a joint 10th-ish anniversary celebration at the bookstore that lasted three days and felt more house party than book party.

The strands started separately, and wove together, but as they spent time twined together, the dough merged.

What lingers, at a moment of active conflict in Eastern Europe, are the terrible specifics of war and poverty the author records along the way: hungry children eating plaster off walls; a pilot pulled from the Rhine with “eels twined through his corpse”; the ground shaking from phosphorus bombs.

Ms. Rheinstein was her own best advertisement, a gracious entertainer who hosted charitable functions for decades at her red brick Georgian house, twined with Lady Banks climbing roses and opening onto inviting garden “rooms.”

Western red cedar, traditionally known as the Tree of Life, was used from birth to death: shredded bark for baby diapers, twined bark for fishing nets, woven bark for clothing and baskets, carved and split wood for tools, house planks, dishes and boxes, and trees felled for canoes — some used for burials, hoisted in trees.