Tag Archive: London

Collecting the Treasures of the World

Posted on August 12, 2020 12:56 pm Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Elsa Hart

In 1714, the gardener and caretaker Edmund Howard supervised his employer’s move to a new home. It was an exhausting endeavor, and anyone who has stared into an overfull cardboard box at four in the morning on … Read the article

Log Cabin History: The Secrets of Making a Home

Posted on September 9, 2015 9:13 pm Published by hradmin 1 Comment

by Judith Flanders

Log Cabin History

In 1857, the 250th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, were announced to have been held exactly on the spot where ‘the first log-cabin … Read the article