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Describes how four staples--candles, soap, brooms, and cider--were made in colonial times.

Describes the life of early settlers, including the construction of a home, the clearing of land, folk medicine, candle making, quilting bees, weaving, and wedding parties.

This book describes the homes, customs, and habits of seventeenth and eighteenth century North American settlers.

Shortly after her mother leaves on a trip, a package that contains family heirlooms arrives, and when strange things start to happen around the house, Felicity is convinced that the heirlooms are haunted.

Describes what the American home was like in the 1800s, discussing how developments in taste, fashion, technology, and social change influenced home and family life and exploring the leisure activities, values, consumer goods, traditions, and events that defined nineteenth-century Americans.