It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

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• Alice Morse Earle:

  In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and n

• Alice Morse Earle:

  The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing

• Alice Morse Earle:

  When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter mu

• Alice Morse Earle:

  By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by

• Alice Morse Earle:

  Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without o

• Alice Morse Earle:

  The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North

• Alice Morse Earle:

  The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a che

• Alice Morse Earle:

  The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the

• Alice Morse Earle:

  Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return v

• Alice Morse Earle:

  The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-hou