A Stove Less Ordinary

This is what it takes to get me off my butt and do another bit for this poor old blog after eight silent months: The Big Stove in its or...

The previous posting was all a bit grim.  Here, as yet another example of the way in which stoves entered into American culture by mid-centu...

[ This is a bit of a mess at the moment -- made up from a fairly random collection of stories about stoves and gory endings, some criminal, ...

Golly gosh, how  quickly time passes when you're enjoying yourself (in my case, just getting sucked into the rhythm of the teaching term...

"New-Jersey," New York Times , 20 Nov. 1880, p. 8. "Mrs Saltig, a German woman, residing in ... Hoboken, put $50 in greenba...

This is rather heavy-handed "humor," but it makes an interesting point about one of the drawbacks of the old iron cook-stove: it w...

Frances Dana Gage, like William Ray, is also a lesser-known C19th American whose acquaintance it's worth making.  She was a great reform...