Description
Contents: Travel – Three Centuries of Taos Treasure (Travelers in search of the real Old West can do no better than to drop by the historic homes and quirky museums in this tiny New Mexico town), Crafts – Do Tread On Me (The palettes and patterns of past centuries emerge in the sturdy floorchoths that Nancy Cayford creates for historic homes), Living History – A Bounteous Crop of Brooms (With kicker and pounder, press and twine, a former stockbroker transforms fields of broomcorn into robust brooms), Preservation – New Life from a Victorian Past (As they save its spendid architectural heritage, an energetic hometown duo is revitalizing the old industrial city of Wheeling as well), Collecting – Linked by Love of Cows (Since buying part of Florence Lux’s cos-postcard collection, the author has tried to learn more about her fellow bovinac), Restoration – Riding High in St. Paul (A downtown shopping center is the new home of the 1914 Minnesota State Fair carousel, rescued literally on the auction block), Food – Out of the Melting Pot (A fascinating new cookbook celebrates twenty-five years of fabulous multi-ethnic eating at the Smithsonian’s Festival of American Folklife)
Issue: October 1991
Condition: Very Good