Under the Gables

See the entire set at Retronaut compliments of Lisby . I feel inspired to write a story for each couple, don't you?

Grace McCance Snyder's autobiography, No Time on My Hands , written with her daughter, Nellie Snyder Yost, is the account of her pioneer...

In the Old House by Childe Hassam, 1914 Jessamyn West, the 20th-century author of The Friendly Persuasion and many other novels, snap...

Caroline Cowles Richards in 1860 Village Life in America is a name given to a diary written by one Caroline Cowles Richards, later Mrs. Edm...

Family Life on the Frontier by Caleb Bingham, c. 1845 Hymns by Firelight Now the sweet cloudy voices rise and fall, Blurring the soft damp a...

Janet Lewis Janet Lewis wrote Against a Darkening Sky in the early 1940s (published 1945) about the life of women with families in Encino,...

A Clambake. (As always, click on the painting to see it in a larger size.) The spirit of summer--fun!--led to me thinking about Winslow Home...