Pocahontas County Fare

Another holiday postcard from my grandmother's album--an Easter bell with alder catkins and lilies-of-the-valley, postmarked "Presc...

"To Greet You On St. Patrick's Day." There's no message or signature on the flip side, just the address: "Miss Flor...

A year ago, I unboxed my grandmother's doll, cleaned her up, and determined to make a period dress for her. She's still sitting on...

Art of the Rural has a complete and interesting recap of the Stephen Bloom kerfuffle in "The Atlantic." I wasn't really curi...

A mouse built a summer nest in my box of Christmas ornaments and stuffed the stable full of chew-able ornament pieces. Once I picked the bit...

Another holiday postcard from Grandma's album--this one was never addressed or mailed. It says "Erin Go Bragh--Upper Lake Kilarne...

I confess I never quite outgrew my girlish fascination with doll clothes, doll houses, and miniatures. I quit making doll clothes because ...

For now, Grandma's dolly is going to sit around in her underwear. Once that would have been indecent, but nowadays, it just means she ...

Recently I pulled my grandmother's china doll out of the box I've kept it in since clearing out my mother's house in 1996. Mom...

Other than these skeins of Rambouillet yarn, I have little to show for the past few days. I thought I might get through a winter without a...

A heart made of roses and an arrow made of something I don't recognize--the only floral message I understand here is "To my valen...

Last week Sherry's latest batch of cool "Stuff#21" sent me on a chain of hypertext links that led me back home again, literal...

Here are more surprises from my mom's box of Kodachrome slides. 1954 is a guess--my parents lived in this house from about 1952 to 195...

I vividly remember what the Cromwell Band uniform smelled like, although I cannot describe it now any more than I could then. The cat does ...

Here's a picture of my grandmother, Florence Williamson Hunt, the postcard collector in my family. The postcard album I've been us...

Kodachrome slide from 1951 or 1952. My Aunt Verla, Uncle Bill, and cousins Cathy, Bobby, and Denny. Aren't they cute? The last few day...

This pincushion has been on my to-repair list for years. In fact, I believe it was on my mother's to-repair list throughout my childhoo...

"With Best New Year's Wishes--1911." The sentiment hasn't changed much in 100 years, with a four-leafed clover for luck. ...

"A New Year Thought and Wish" features a garland surrounding a verse: "To greet you now, kind words I send, and wish 'A ...

"Merry Thoughts--New Year's Greeting." It's another floral holiday card, this time with a golden good luck wishbone. The ...