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Not Just Any Covered Wagon

Before engineers developed our country’s canals and railroads, enterprising Pennsylvania farmers crafted heavy-duty wagons to move farm produce over rough roads, a special kind of covered wagon named for where they were developed—Conestoga. Pulled by teams of horses, the Conestoga was the inland freighter of its day. Jeanmarie Andrews tells the whole story in our June 2019 issue.

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Leather Care

In our February 2019 issue, we told you how to care for your leather antiques and noted that you can make your own leather dressings from formulae developed by major institutions—the British Museum and the Central Research Laboratory for Art and Scieince—to help you maintain and preserve your leather goods. You can download these formulae by clicking here.

Christmas Is Here!

We publish our special Christmas issue in September so that you can make holiday plans and have time to order custom-made products that will be ready as gifts on the big day. Copies are already on their way to subscribers (and most should have them by now) and it should be on the newsstand through the holiday—although that's often up to the whims of the newsstand manager—ask for a copy if you don’t see it. What's inside? Read further to find out. [MORE]

A Brownsburg Cabin Christmas

Now available, our new holiday book A Brownsburg Cabin Christmas: Traditions and Friendship in a Small Virginia Town with text and photographs by Early American Life contributing editor Winfield Ross.

In the small village of Brownsburg, Virginia, five families celebrate the season by gathering with neighbors to strengthen friendships and traditions and by decorating their historic cabins. Some of these sturdy structures have passed from generation to generation. [MORE]

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Honor the Flag: Flag Day reminds us how often we forget to honor our flag—last Memorial

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Not Just Any Covered Wagon

Leather Care

Christmas Is Here!

A Brownsburg Cabin Christmas

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