A Stove Less Ordinary

This is one of the most influential, or at least frequently cited and republished, anti-stove diatribes in ante-bellum America, from the ce...

Sylvester Judd (1813-1853) was a very minor literary figure, but not without interest -- Wikipedia supplies the basic facts and even a pictu...

I found this an interesting article -- written by the 'progressive' editors of a farmers' magazine in Western New York State (a....

And this is what it takes to make me get off my butt again  -- I just thought when I read it "this is really interesting, because it ta...

http://books.google.com/books? id=su0RAAAAYAAJ   From  The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine  2 (April 1826): 386-8, and see  http:/...

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...