Description
Contents: Calendar – First Blush of Spring (Join in as America celebrates with a bevy of bloomin’ festivals.), Crafts – Update on the Old Overshot (A former designer brings fresh colors and patterns to an old weaving form: the Colonial converlet.), Restoration – At Old Hickory’s House (In a restoration that extends right down to the floor cloths, the Ladies of the Hermitage have brought Andrew Jackson’s house back to the decade before he died.), Food – Dry and Extra Dry (In Sonoma, California, Ignazio Vella continues to produce Dry Monterey Jack, carrying on a cheese-making tradition that dates back to World War I.), Architecture – Not Really Greek (A historian’s new book questions some time honored views of a favorite architectural style.), Collecting – Before There Was Plastic… (A handful of dedicated collectors are preserving the crockery and cutlery from the days when a railroad journey was its own reward.), Mardi Gras – Hail! Hail! King of Cake (In New Orleans, a sweet, spicy cake and cries of “I’ve got the baby” ring in the Mardi Gras season.)
Issue: February 1990
Condition: Very Good