Description
Contents: Travel – Bed and Breakfast (A network of rooms for rent in private homes and small inns provides pleasant accommodations and a feeling of the past), On Exhibit – “New England Begins” (An important new exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts takes a fresh look at the seventeenth century and concludes that our forefathers lived more opulently than we have been led to believe), Collecting – Roll-o-Relics (In the field of roller skating, Chester Fried is unofficial historian, collector extraordinaire, and an amateur skater of some renown), Americana Homes – Conch Houses of Key West (Conch houses are eclectic in style, well suited to the tropics and now the height of fashion), Crafts – Basket Masterpieces (Laura Somersol is one of a few remaining makers of Pomo Indian baskets, considered by some to be among the world’s most beautiful), Cooking – Chocolate Chip Cookies (In 1930, Ruth Wakefield conceived the Toll House cookie more or less by accident. Now it is a national obsession. Recipes include the traditional favorite and some interesting variations), Americana Report – On the Trail of Lewis and Clark (Every summer some Lewis and Clark devotees set out to see the West just as the explorers saw it and in the process have some adventures of their own), Art – Eye on the Old West (Charles Coshrand blends colors on a wet canvas to capture the West at its romantic best)
Issue: May – June 1982
Condition: Very Good