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September 2025 Late Summer Style BY Gail Reeder Tirzah Waite Pocket A reader brings our attention to a pre-1815 pocket in the collection of Old Sturbridge Village. OSV has now offered a kit that you can reproduce this piece of history for your own home. An 1850s Schoolhouse on the Illinois Prairie BY Patricia Reaves Dedicated volunteers save a schoolhouse/farmhouse from destruction by moving it to the edge of the prairie and giving it new life. The Dr. Elijah Bowen Jr. House BY Dawn Adiletta A New Jersey couple moves to a country farmhouse with historic provenance and

June 2025 Antiques in Search of a Home Mike and Ginger Leupold rescued an 1820 home in Mill Hall, PA to hold their lovingly collected antiques. What Ails You? BY DAWN ADILETTA Deaths from this cruel disease, caused by lack of vitamin C, were debilitating to the course of nations. Yes, Washington Really Did Sleep Here: The Peter Wentz Farmstead and the 1777 Philadelphia Campaign. BY SCOTT HOUTING The house once known only for its polka-dot walls tells the story of its time as George Washingtonís headquarters. American Stoneware 101 BY DUANE F. WATSON A primer for

April 2025 A Place in Time BY DAWN ADILETTA Pennsylvania German Easter Eggs BY LISA MINARDI An Amazing Bowl BY PETER SEIBERT Reproducing an 18th Century Pennsylvania Tavern Pipe Rack BY ARTHUR WM. RITTER Benjamin F. Meek: A Kentucky Craftsman, 1816-1901 BY BETTY BARR What to Name the Baby BY DIANA ROSS MCCAIN Concealment Shoes Mimi Handler Natural Dyes in the Harmonist period, 1814 to 1824, New Harmony, Indiana By Peggy Taylor Sewing a Fine Seam By Susan W. Greene The Breeches Bible/The Geneva Bible BY Wesley C. Williams