Under the Gables

Learning to Set the Table in Home Economics, February 16,1957 Jenny Wren called my attention to this fun blog, 50s Times . It is a fascinat...

Painter Andrew Wyeth died January 16 in his sleep in his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, at the age of 91. I remember in the early 1960s...

I think of Nicola Beauman, the founder and owner of Persephone Books , as a treasure seeker who has struck it rich. Her own appraisal of wom...

I recommend Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary 1913-1917 by Vera Brittain to all, especially to young women. Brittain wrote a novel based on...

Fastidiousness can be hard on children... This is the question that sadly came to my mind, when I read The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield. F...

May the New Year bring us peace. Magpie, by Claude Monet, 1868-69.

Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men. God bless you everyone.