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1859 Something about Cooks
Excerpt from TRIALS AND CONFESSIONS OF A HOUSEKEEPER (fiction) by T. S. Arthur; PHILADELPHIA: 1859. WAS there ever a good cook who hadn’t some prominent fault that completely overshadowed her...
View ArticleEliza Leslie lived for a while @ West Point
A certain yellow [they seem to have known no other colors in those days] circa 1750s frame house at West Point Military Academy was the second oldest house on the grounds. “In 1823 or ’24, Major...
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