Historical Tidbits

George Washington, Commander-in-Chief, by Shari Fuller, Thimbles and Acorns — George Washington attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The purpose of this first congress was to determine how the colonies should respond to the British parliament’s harsh reaction to Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The Coercive Acts, or The Intolerable […]

George Washington, Commander-in-Chief

May 22, 2018 in 1700s American Colonial / Historical Tidbits / Posts by Shari

George Washington attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The purpose of this first congress was to determine how the colonies should respond to the British parliament’s harsh reaction to Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The Coercive Acts, or The Intolerable Acts […]

George Washington, Commander in Chief

December 8, 2017 in 1700s American Colonial / December 2017 / Newsletter / Posts by Shari

It’s Been Far Too Long, My Friends! I can’t believe it has been six months since I published my last newsletter – WOW! For those of you that don’t know, life has taken a bit of a U-turn for us. In June, we were asked to be the foster family […]

The Latest News… December 2017

December 8, 2017 in 1700s American Colonial / 1870s / December 2017 / Newsletter / Posts by Shari

Scraps are an inevitable byproduct of any sewing project and many sewists have a tendency to save even the smallest pieces of fabric because they are simply too nice to throw away. Who knows, they could be find a place in a quilt, as a doll dress, or in any […]

… of Cabbages and Kings

October 31, 2016 in Historical Tidbits / Newsletter / October 2016 / Posts by Shari

My mom had one, my grandma had one, and even my great grandma had one. A pincushion in the shape of a tomato seemed only natural to me, so I wasn’t at all surprised to find one in the little sewing box my mother gave me when I was a […]

You Say Tomato…

September 19, 2016 in Historical Tidbits / Newsletter / Posts / September 2016 by Shari

In a speech she had made at a Detroit book fair in 1937, Laura Ingalls Wilder commented: “I realized that I had seen and lived it all – all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman then the pioneer, then the farmers and the towns.” Shortly before […]

Prairie Community

July 31, 2016 in 1870s / Historical Tidbits / Newsletter / Posts / Summer 2016 by Shari

There are very few people in the United States who didn’t grow up reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb or celebrating Thanksgiving, but did you know that we can thank a feisty little woman named Sarah Josepha Hale for them? Impossible circumstances are the forge in which remarkable people are […]

Sarah Josepha Hale

January 19, 2016 in 1800s Regency and Victorian / Historical Tidbits / January 2016 / Newsletter by Shari