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Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle · narrated by LibriVox volunteers
13h 3m$1.99
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Step into the kitchen of early America. Alice Morse Earle's beloved history recreates colonial life in loving detail: the hearths and candle-making, spinning wheels and schoolhouses, meals, manners, courtships, and hardships. You will discover the texture of ordinary days three centuries gone, gathered from diaries, letters, and surviving things. Thirteen hours of pure time travel for lovers of home and history. Press play and cross the threshold.
Inside this audiobook
18 chapters
- 1Dedication and Forword5m
- 2Homes of the Colonists47m
- 3The Light of Other Days29m
- 4The Kitchen Fireside37m
- 5The Serving of Meals48m
- 6Food from Forest and Sea39m
- 7Indian Corn33m
- 8Meat and Drink41m
- 9Flax Culture and Spinning40m
- 10Wool Culture and Spinning45m
- 11Hand-Weaving1h 5m
- 12Girls' Occupations51m
- 13Dress of the Colonists36m
- 14Jack-knife Industries46m
- 15Travel, Transportation, a1h 5m
- 16Sunday in the Colonies38m
- 17Colonial Neighborliness1h 3m
- 18Old-time Flower Gardens53m
