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EYE ON ANTIQUES: SLEEPING WITH STENCILS Young girls schooled in fancy decorative techniques took paintbrush in hand to stencil these rare bedcovers. Jeanmarie Andrews |
THE OTHER CAPE MAY Long before the southern Jersey coast became a Victorian mecca, New Englanders built sturdy colonial homes with local materials. Joan Berkey |
A MOVING EXPERIENCE Lew and Jean Albrecht relocated the 1695 Reeves house, one of the earliest and most important in Cape May County, then spent years restoring it properly. Winfield Ross |
JUST A SIMPLE FARMHOUSE Joe and Nancy Geisert found their retirement getaway in a circa 1761 house on Cape May, which they now share with donkeys and goats. |
UNDOING VICTORIA’S INFLUENCE Recognizing its early bones beneath the Victorian excess, Joe and Emily McLaughlin brought a 1700 Cape May farmhouse back to its roots. |
ALL IN THE FAMILY The Greens worked from the ground up, teaching themselves every aspect of restoration on their 1842 farmhouse in northeastern Pennsylvania. Linda Harbrecht |
COLONIAL TIME CAPSULE Well-preserved early homes, open farmland, and a wealth of material culture imbue Deerfield, Massachusetts, with a sense of New England as it was meant to be. Jeanmarie Andrews |
DIRECTORY OF TRADITIONAL AMERICAN CRAFTS Replicas of fi ne American decorative arts hold their own among the rich furnishings in the restored homes of Historic Deerfield. |
EARLY AMERICAN LORE: FIREWORKS AND THE FOURTH Celebratory pyrotechnics pre-date American independence, but they became an early and integral part of marking the country’s birthday. |
