Where can you get the 2013 ladies birthday calendar almanac?

Unfortunately, the makers of both the Ladies' Birthday Almanac and the famous Cardui Calendar, which graced the walls of farmhouses and country shops nationwide, announced last year that the 2012 edition of the Ladies' Birthday Almanac was their last.

You have a couple of options for country almanacs: the Bristol Almanac is one of the country's oldest and is still made by the purveyors of Florida Water, Lanman and Kemp. They mainly publish in Spanish, but they occasionally have English copies if you can check with a really local pharmacist (chances are you won't find it in stores). The "Big Four" are still around: Old Farmers', Farmers, Harris' Almanac, and Blum's, which is your best bet for traditional knowledge if you happen to be into gardening, husbandry or household hints and tips.

The Ladies' Birthday Almanac had an amazing 122 year run. It was a tradition in the South, next to RC Cola and Moonpies. It was one of the few almanacs to still use "weather flags" and to use Bible verses for each day, which is what gave the almanac its name. Almanacs are dying art in the US, with increasing reliance on the internet and instant information easily available. Almanacs were, at one time, storehouses of popular knowledge, the only reading material next to The Bible available for families in frontier locations. Their impressive impact on US history and popular culture is without question one of the greatest cultural contributions to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.