Title: Home life in colonial days /
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company ; Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,
Year: 1899
Subjects: United States Social life and customs
Abstract: The author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life.
Contents: Homes of the Colonists -- The Light of Other Days -- The Kitchen Fireside -- The Serving of Meals -- Food from Forest and Sea -- Indian Corn -- Meat and Drink -- Flax Culture and Spinning -- Wool Culture and Spinning, with a Postscript on Cotton -- Hand-Weaving -- Girls' Occupations -- Dress of the Colonists -- Jack-knife Industries -- Travel, Transportation, and Taverns -- Sunday in the Colonies -- Colonial Neighborliness -- Old-time Flower Gardens.