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	Eye on Antiques: Milliner's Models or Varnished Heads "Milliner’s models" is a misnomer—dolls with papier-mâché faces and fancy clothing never served for fashion display, only toys for children.
	Finding What's American about Salt-Glazed Stoneware A new book from Colonial Williamsburg traces the colonists’ fondness for German and English stoneware and their earliest attempts to produce it here.
	The Highest Bid Pauline Streett bought a bat-infested stone house half-built into a Pennsylvania hillside and transformed it into a country retreat.
	Close to the Water Fred and Mackey Dutton gave up a family home to restore a mid-1700s landmark on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
	Visiting Chestertown This once-busy Maryland seaport boasts one of the highest concentrations of pre-Revolutionary structures in the country.
	Wildflower Afterglow When the colonists emerged from winter hibernation, they saw some of the same flowers that you can still see growing in the vastly changed countryside.
	Life in Early America: Spring Cleaning After spending the long winter in cramped, soot-fi lled homes, colonial housewives welcomed spring as a chance to scrub things clean.
	Time Travelers: Camp Life at Fort Ticonderoga Fighting battles all over again, re-enactors learned real-life lessons like going barefoot helps preserve expensive leather shoes on rainy, muddy days.
	Side by Side: Windsor Settees Building on the strength and simplicity of the Windsor chair, furniture makers created seating for couples —and more. Today’s makers offer similar styles.
	Fireworks in Gold and Silk Plimoth Plantation’s efforts to reproduce a 17th-Century embroidered woman’s waistcoat drew worldwide interest, helping to revive the craft and its materials and techniques.
	Early American Lore: The Chopping Bee American pioneers applied their ingenuity to clearing forests and planting gardens.