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Saturday, December 6, 2014

1880 - Grandmother's Baked Beans on Ponketasset Hill, Concord, Massachusetts

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Baked Beans George Houghton B AKED beans! The very name is dear to New Englanders! Baked beans! Those two words of five  letters each...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Civil War Song in Praise of the Bean (video)

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It is one thing to like a dish, but totally another to write a song in its praise!!!  This is a great Civil War period song performed by t...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

1937 Maryland Beans, Sun Bonnets

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It is report card time with the school full of families, and school is ramping up into the pre-holiday tizzy that propels us through the n...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Dorothea Lange and Beans

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In May 1937, Dorothea Lange photographed cultivating beans  with  a four-row cultivator near Santa Ana, California.  Look down ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

(1810+) Early Seed Catalog Bean Offerings

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N ames of bean varieties sold in seedsman's catalogs in early years in the United States were very changeable, and it is hard to know i...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Beans and Valetudinarian Stomachs

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I   had no idea the dried beans were not considered proper people food in the 18th and early 19th century England by the economically comf...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

1890 - A Short Tale, plus the Possum Nose Pumpkin

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Maule's catalogs have style...  and it is distinctive to Maule!  They got more boring in the 1900s. The la...