Come indoors, pull up a fireside rocker, and discover how the everyday rituals of a bustling nineteenth-century home can bring history to life more vividly than ever. It's also the book she would have grabbed off the shelf the first few times she needed to butcher and prepare a hog, make cologne, clean her finest church silk, or make a syrup to treat her ba
- Title : Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Colorado: A Practical Primer for Daily Living
- Author : Carol Padgett
- Rating : 4.67 (174 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-4-11
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 224 Pages
- Asin : 0897325249
- Language : English
Come indoors, pull up a fireside rocker, and discover how the everyday rituals of a bustling nineteenth-century home can bring history to life more vividly than ever. It's also the book she would have grabbed off the shelf the first few times she needed to butcher and prepare a hog, make cologne, clean her finest church silk, or make a syrup to treat her baby's nagging cough.So welcome to the family household in old Colorado. Later, she might have read the same book through all over again, for ideas about how to arrange the parlor and how to direct her children's playtime. From the Back CoverKeeping Hearth & Home in Old Colorado is a "how-to" book, but not for you. (5 1/4 x 7 1/4, 240 pages, illustrations). Drawn from a wealth of authentic Victorian-era books and magazines, it is like theAlot of good pictures, alot of issues too. If this were a movie, I would accuse the characters of over-acting. Pen and ink drawings of ancient ruins instead with some limited photos of some interesting installations, but hardly worth the price.. I don't know James Gill professionally or personally, but we do frequent the same indie writers' haunts on the web and I've posed some techie questions on his blog. The book is so painfully basic that it consists of simplistic chapters that tell you some platitudinal obvious things such as the fact that you have to figure out a vision if you are starting a business. But, what bothered me most about him was the way he spoke to the heroine. But it doesn't suffer from the excesses of this style either, which can sound like getting a lecture from a hipster. The tragedies that affected families for generations. This is a great book!!! Laurie Ulrich really knows about retouching and restoring photos and you can tell she really cares about her readers and has a feel for the kind of stuff people want to do with their family photos, old pictures, and so on. They were captivated by the lively illustrations and quite entertained by the clever humor. My son is 3 and loves trains in general and Thomas and friends in particular. Holding my head in shame for taking so long to read this juicy, juicy book. Some of the notations seem a little ridiculous at first, but after you familiarize yourself it's allIt's also the book she would have grabbed off the shelf the first few times she needed to butcher and prepare a hog, make cologne, clean her finest church silk, or make a syrup to treat her baby's nagging cough. Later, she might have read the same book through all over again, for ideas about how to arrange the parlor and how to direct her children's playtime. It's also the book she would have grabbed off the shelf the first few times she needed to butcher and prepare a hog, make cologne, clean her finest church silk, or make a syrup to treat her baby's nagging cough.So welcome to the family household in old Colorado. Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Colorado is a "how-to" book, but not for you. Drawn from a wealth of authentic Victorian-era books and magazines, it is like the book your great- or great-great grandmother might have read to prepare herself for the etiquette
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