EYE ON ANTIQUES: SPINNING WHEELS

Common in most colonial households for spinning wool, cotton, and flax, wheels of many types are both collectible furniture and useful tools for modern spinners.

Florence Feldman-Wood

RECLAIMING A CHARLESTON LANDMARK

Reconstructing the rubble left behind by a college and hurricane, then restoring its classical ornamentation, Gene and Betsy Johnson revived an 1806 Federal estate.

Jeanmarie Andrews

CONNECTICUT BECKONS

While a child in her native Brazil, Liliana Damasceno dreamed of owning a New England saltbox. She found her dream in the 1751 Amos Richardson house.

Holly V. Izard

RECLAIMING THE LAND OF LINCOLN

An accident stranded a young Abraham Lincoln in New Salem, Illinois, but six years in the town turned him from shopkeeper to lawyer and eventually our 16th president.

David Tomkins

OLD ROSES

Colonial gardeners loved roses, but not today’s tiny bushes with tightly spiraled fl owers. They enjoyed the sprawling, fragrant old roses of Europe—and you can, too.

Rebecca Rupp

LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA: THE FIRST LINERS

Packet ships were the first to establish scheduled sailing dates, an innovation that helped make America’s merchant marine the world’s leader and New York the greatest port.

Winfield Ross

A COLONIAL GARDEN IN A DAY

Even colonial city-dwellers kept gardens. We show you how to build a raised-bed garden perfect for gathering fresh vegetables and herbs at your kitchen doorstep.

John Forti

SIDE BY SIDE: FACES IN BLACK AND WHITE

A monochromatic profile captures personalities surprisingly well, so silhouettes became popular as cheap portraits in the late 1700s and 1800s. Traditional artisans have revived the art.

Gregory LeFever