Under the Gables

  Caldwell Church Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn, N.Y., manned by church volunteers.   I have always believed in the now-old-fashioned imp...

 

In Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood , author Steven Mintz reports that the kinds of blended families we see today were comm...

  Before I read The Able McLaughlins , I never knew the tremendous efforts of women who pioneered the west to bring with them precious ...

  The Iowa prairie as it might have looked when the Able McLaughlins farmed it in the mid-19th century. Margaret Wilson won the 1924 ...

I bought this book for its cover: Christmas Stories , Everyman's Library.  Happy though that it begins  with Charles Dickens.

A little friend who loves to do the dishes. She and my daughter (r) had just made a cake.     More from Living with Children by Mrs....