Title: Huskings, quiltings, and barn raisings
Subtitle: work-play parties in early America
Description: Surveys the history of husking bees, barn raisings, soap boilings, and other American work-play parties, in which people in colonial and pioneer days came together to help one another while having fun.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Juvenile literature, Handicraft, History
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1865, To 1775