Alice Morse Earle
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Could you identify a sausage gun if you had to? How about a plate warmer or a well-sweep? Any idea how the term log-rolling really originated? Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911), a prolific popular historian and the first American to chronicle everyday life and customs of the colonial era, describes what these and many other obscure utensils were and how they were used. She also conveys a vivid picture of home production of textiles, colonial dress, transportation,...
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Excerpt: "In reverent and affectionate retrospective view of the influences and conditions which had power and made mark upon the settlement of New England, we are apt to affirm with earnest sentiment that religion was the one force, the one aim, the one thought, of the lives of our forbears. It was indeed an ever present thought and influence in their lives; but they possessed another trait which is as evident in their records as their piety, and...
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A Dusty Tomes Audio Book in Cooperation with Spoken Realms
A Major US Historian Series The Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1891.
Note-This book is "read as written". It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain.
I. The New England Meetinghouse
II. The Church Militant
III. By Drum and Horn and Shell
IV. The Old-fashioned Pews
V. Seating the Meeting
VI. The Tithingman and the Sleepers
VII....
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In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting house, but often before any house of God was built, the devil got his restraining engine. And who were the heinous criminals that the righteous put in the stocks? The punishment...
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Colonial American justice was harsh with transgressors: liars were bound to the whipping-post and scolding women sentenced to the ducking stool. Derived from court records, newspapers, diaries, and letters, this illustrated volume offers authentic views of many traditional forms of chastisement. These punitive measures were taken against petty thieves, unruly servants, Sabbath-breakers, revilers, gamblers, drunkards, ballad-singers, fortune-tellers,...
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What did the little ones do back in the days when "children should be seen and not heard"? How were they schooled, what did they wear, and which games did they play? This eye-opening survey revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for an illustrated look at the lives of Colonial America's youngest citizens The first American historian to chronicle everyday life of the colonial era, Alice Morse Earle conducted years of research, based on letters,...
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Contents
I. "Child Life"
II. "Courtship and Marriage Customs"
III. "Domestic Service"
IV. "Home Interiors"
V. "Table Plenishings"
VI. "Supplies of the Larder"
VII. "Old Colonial Drinks and Drinkers"
VIII. "Travel, Tavern, and Turnpike"
IX. "Holidays and Festivals"
X. "Sports and Diversions"
XI. "Books and Book-Makers"
XII. "Artifices of Handsomeness"
XIII. "Raiment and Vesture"
XIV. "Doctors and Patients"
XV. "Funeral and Burial Customs"
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