Question: Could you please tell us something about the oak chair seen in this photo? It was in my husband's family for years and passed from his sister to us. When she had the chair, she kept a pillow ...

FOCUS ON HISTORY – An Irish immigrant woman who lived and worked in Amsterdam became a national union leader in the 19th century. Leonora Kearney Barry wrote. “Day after day, I sat sewing men’s ...

Folk art is art from everyday life that was made for entertainment or display, often by amateur artists. Collectors have focused on game boards, carousel figures, cigar-store Indians, tramp art and ...

Many figural tobacco jars were made in the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with just the letters “JM” or the letters and the printed word “Bohemia” or “Czechoslovakia.” The jars held loose pipe ...

Broward Black history series to teach about Black educators in the South ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Each summer visitors are transported back in time to the late 1800s and early 1900s when immigrants first settled along the shores of Lake Michigan. The farmlands that are now ...

To build it up or tear it down? That’s the question that my husband, Brian, and I frequently have asked ourselves during the past 28 years that we have lived on our farmstead. Like many farms of the ...

SHEBOYGAN – Back in the late 1800s to early 1900s, it was a common sight to see a horse-drawn wagon loaded with containers of milk to be distributed to customers in the city. Customers could hear the ...

**Origins (late 1700s–early 1800s)** Ramsfort House was established as a large Anglo-Irish country estate representative of the Protestant Ascendancy period, acting as the administrative center for ...