Colonial America: the simple life

The following section has some additional information about early American fireplaces, cooking and baking. Some of it repeats what was state...

To simplify matters, I like to think of there being two kinds of Colonial era American furniture. The pieces made by very skilled craftsmen,...

These first three articles were based on notes I had rewritten in a more or less orderly fashion a couple of years ago. From here on article...

Once the sun set it was a dark and shadowy world in colonial America. In most smaller homes, people saw only by the light of the fire on the...

The heart of the earliest homes was always the hearth, so let’s start there. The earliest fireplaces were simply places where you set the ...