homesteads & market fairsOne of my favorite places to visit is The Claude Moore Colonial Farm, nestled across the Potomac River from Washington,… |
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choresOn the farm, we are in the midst of seasonal chores—weeding the garden; freezing herbs for winter; making and freezing… |
jill & janeWe can look forward to learning a great deal more about Jane Franklin (1712-1794) when Jill Lepore’s book The Book… |
time travelingTime travel back to 1770 and Mary Ambler rightly sums up today, “A Rainy Day (very dull) if it were not… |
‘by a Lady’Perhaps a copy of Flora’s Dictionary would have been found on Emily Dickinson’s bookshelf, posits the scholar Judith Farr. Dickinson’s… |
weeds, seeds & volunteersLast week our gardens were deluged with yet more rain, so this morning I turned my attention to the bounty… |
sourcesOne of my favorite sources for all things colonial is the online journal, Common-Place, sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society…. |
primerOn May 16, 1804, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was born in Billerica, MA. She was the daughter of Eliza & Nathaniel… |
et uxYesterday, I ventured to the registry of deeds to trace back, with a very knowledgeable and friendly records examiner, the… |
kitchen gardenIn last’s week mail, our order of potatoes and leeks arrived from Fedco Seeds, as well as onions from Dixondale… |