Lunar Collections – The Committed Collector

If you enjoy marking the seasons as much as I do, you’ll know we’ve reached the time of the Harvest Moon, which happened to be last night’s full moon—or was it this morning’s?
Summer was supposed to go out with the embers of Labor Day cookouts. The nights have finally gotten cooler, and the farmers’ markets are bursting with both apples and pumpkins. Halloween can’t be far behind.

Soon, we’ll be transfixed by enchantresses or terrified by werewolves. Before then, though, we might consider the beauty and mystery of the moon, especially when it’s full and glowing.

Presumably since the beginning of time, people have been mesmerized by the moon, imbued it with mystical powers, and found it symbolic of many things.

Collectors, too, have been fascinated by the moon and its many guises. Just think of all the moon-related things we could collect!

Wordsmiths can have fun with all the terms that contain “moon” and compile quite a list:

moonbeam and moonlight
honeymoon and honeymooners
moonshine, bathtub gin, bootleggers
the moonwalk, moon rocks, lunar samples
moonshots, moonscapes
moon-roofs
being moon-eyed or mooning over someone
not to be confused with mooning someone

Avid readers, bibliophiles, and other book lovers might have libraries filled with these titles:

Carolina Moon, Moon Shadows, or Tears of the Moon by Nora Roberts
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Full Moon by P.G. Wodehouse
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
The Moon Lady by Amy Tan
The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Moon over Water by Debbie Macomber
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Music lovers of all ages can find moon-songs for their collections that might include:

Rodgers and Hart’s “Blue Moon”
Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon”
“Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”
Duran Duran’s “New Moon on Monday”

Movies buffs can have any or all of the following films in their collections, depending on their tastes:

Moon over Miami with Betty Grable
Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Franco Zeffirelli
Paper Moon with father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O’Neal
Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker
Moonstruck with Cher and Nickolas Cage
The Twilight Saga: New Moon with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Of course, if I collected moon-related items, my DVD library would definitely include both the Roy Rogers’ film from 1938 as well as the 1944 version with Ann Sheridan. After all, I’d want it to Shine on Harvest Moon.

Patti
The Committed Collectors

How about you? Do you know anything about the comics or video games that feature the moon? Those fields are outside of my areas of interest, so I’d love to hear what you suggest–please leave a comment.