Go Big When You Go Home
A year after moving, Virginia feels like home, even as I continue to experience accent-based misunderstandings and yearn for different apples. But if home is wh...
Tag: New England
Smock it to Me
Edited to correct numerous typos and to add a bad sketch of the OSV apron. Don’t try to do research while conducting a small but energetic boy through a m...
Checked Linen Aprons post-1800
Not that this is an exhaustive or final chronicle, but Jackie asked about the apron. I first encountered this form of apron at Old Sturbridge Village, on displa...
Winter Amusement
I count myself among the people sick of winter in New England, but the piles of snow and wretched driving have prompted some comments from the Young Mr, includi...
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