Reading, History and Other Lessons

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City Living Brings Life Back to a Three Block Radius - Once upon a time in America, everything you needed was just down the road and within walking distance.

Country Kitchen: Foods Inspired by Quiltmaking - By Mary Emma Allen As I work on my quilt book, The Magic of Patchwork, for its updated printing, I'm reminded of the foods the quilters prepared in days ago. This was especially true as I read the section about quilting bees: "One of the enjoyable aspects of quiltmaking in days ago was the ...

Country Kitchen: Organizing Recipes into a Collection - Instead of recipes tossed into a cardboard box as my mother did, even though it brought back many memories when I found the container years later, there are other more efficient ways to organize yours. One method involves cataloging your recipes along with the family memories associated with them. Get ...

Travel in the 1920's - By Inez Haythorn Have you ever heard of a Velie? How about a Maxwell? Those were two of my grandfather's first cars. Travel was much different in the 1920's. Vehicles and road conditions made transportation difficult and time-consuming.

Autumn Leaves - By C.J. Clark Peering out the back door through the wooded forest orange flames break through the charcoal night, the silence broken by the raking of leaves. Firefly sparks dance through the air. Heavy gray smudges of smoke billow skyward. And the aroma of oak leaves filters through the air. ...