I haven’t shared any chicken news with any of you lately. If you recall, back in January I ordered a dozen fertile French Copper Maran eggs....

First, let’s start the day with this lively little ad. I like the checklist, very specific to these darling cabinets. I can say NONE of the...

The corner shelf. That quintessential vintage kitchen accessory. This image here, is of my own corner shelf. My house, which is very old, ha...

Vice president Richard Nixon speaking at a dedication of the Dalles dam. In 1952 the Army Corp of Engineers began the construction of a co...

I have often felt myself the little reporter. My findings of all things 1950’s since the inception of my project has given me a very invest...

I love this song, which was featured this year on the Nat King Cole show. The Mills brothers were at one time the “Four Kings of Harmony” a...

Of course, in 1957 Easter Sunday was on the 21st. I think I have mentioned the Easter Seal before, but here is a quick bit of it’s histor...

Though my title today reeks of silent film villainy, it is actually just a way for me to share these fun drapery solutions with you. Thes...

On the 12th of this month, 1957, Allan Ginsberg’s poem HOWL (which had been written in 1955 but published in England) was seized by customs...

At the turn of the last century (1900) a homemaker could not really call herself middle class if she did not have at least one domestic ser...