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Curio

Interesting Mustard

The rise of the restaurant.

Soldiers in the Garden

An "unwilling participant" in the American Revolution writes from her fortified Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.

She's Crafty

Domesticity on the rise in Oregon.

Of Stillness and Light

With Henry David Thoreau, winter walks can quickly turn into "frolic gambols."

Impertinent Questions

Newspaper Contest in 1908 asked "When Is It Time to Go Home?"