Close to the Water
 When Mackie and Fred Dutton gave up cruising in their sailing ketch Firefly, they opted to restore a historic 18th Century house in Chestertown, Maryland—but Mackie didn't have to give up her view of the Chester River. You can see how (and take a look around inside Mackey's house) in our April 2010 issue.
See issue contents. Nancy Hurst Selected Among Top Artisans Each year Early American Life invites the best artisans in America to be judged by leading museum curators and other experts to find the best craftwork made in traditional styles, materials, and methods for the Directory of Traditional American Crafts. We are delighted that our jurors selected Nancy Hurst as crafting some of America's best handwork in the category "Painted Or Framed Art" for our 2009 Directory Nancy Hurst is a North Carolina born artist who lives today in Kernersville, NC, with her husband and three inscutable cats. A self-taught artist, Nancy began her study of fraktur at Old Salem, the living history museum in Winston-Salem, NC. Read more about Hurst. Find out about the Directory. Can a Condo Be Early American?
 Some early copies of the February 2010 issue of Early American Life did not include the story about the Webb Condominium ("Can a Condo Be Early American?") due to production problems. You can download a copy of the complete story by clicking here. Warning: the file is 700 kilobytes and takes a while to download. Your system will appear unresponsive until it finishes. Early American Life Selected as Best
 The Ohio Society of Professional Journalists selected Early American Life as the Best Trade Publication in Ohio in its 2009 SPJ Awards. We are proud to have been chosen by our peers for the quality of our overall magazine. In addition, our story “Deconstructing Montpelier” by Winfield Ross was chosen as the Best General Story in the 2009 awards. Click here to read more. Website Updates
 We've been trying to make our website more usable, useful, and informative, so we've added several refinements over the last few weeks. Two that we'd like to bring to your attention are a more interactive Table of Contents and an improved Readers' Exchange. Our Table of Contents for the current issue (click "Contents" on the menu bar at left) was originally designed to tell you a bit about the stories in our current issue—we hoped it would make you run out and buy an issue. We have now provided a direct link to our Sources page for each story (if one is available) so you can more easily navigate the website. Click here to read more. New Old Construction in Williamsburg
 Reconstruction of Richard Charlton’s 18th century Coffeehouse is underway in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area. The Foundation’s Architectural Historians designed the building to appear as close to the original as evidence permits, and the plan incorporates the remaining portions of the Coffeehouse’s original foundations. The building’s site, the location of the Cary Peyton Armistead House until 1995, has been the subject of extensive archaeological research in consultation with the Armistead family. Click here to read more. 1800The Landing - Three Rivers Park District sent this note to our Readers' Exchange:
We are looking for an article from a 1980's Early American Life. There was a centerfold article about a Dutch ship. The centerfold was a cutaway picture for the ship showing steerage. We used this picture with some of our school programs, unfortuantly it was lost in a fire. I don't need the magazine, just a photo copy of the cutaway ship. [Read more.] Visit the Readers’ Exchange. News Archive: Rare 1830 Wall Mural Discovered Freezing Foods in the South Award Winning Photography | 
