Show your true colors – is a term from nautical history. Pirate ships would approach their intended victim showing a false flag to lure them into a false sense of security. When it was too late for the victim to escape they would show their true colours-the jolly roger Amazon.com – Read eBooks using the […]
HOW TO CAN PEACHES (Transcribed from the Evergreen Star, Evergreen, Alabama, September 18, 1879) Choose the cling-stones. Pare, halt, and stone them. Boil the stones or pits until all the flavor is extracted; then having everything in readiness (the cans, with their covers and the wax to seal them), pour off the water from the […]
Toe the line means to was to position one’s toes next to a marked line in order to be ready to start a race, or some other undertaking. In the early days of the British Parliament, members wore swords in the House of Commons. To keep the members from fighting during heated debates, the Speaker […]
In the Great Depression, many Circleville, Ohio farms were foreclosed on and the farmers families were forced to move to town. The small town did their best to handle the large influx of people. Street Scenes Here are some street scenes from 1938 taken by Artist and photographer, Ben Shahn of people living there. The […]
Taste from the past Pancake recipe from 1879 newspaper Take three eggs and stir them into a pint of milk; add a good pinch of salt and enough prepared flour to make it into a thick, smooth batter. Fry in boiling fat till nearly done; roll over on the other side; drain, and serve very […]
Put up your Dukes – means to put up your fists and prepare to fight. There are various thoughts as to how ‘dukes’ came to mean ‘fists’. The most commonly repeated suggestion is that it derives from the Cockney rhyming slang – Duke of Yorks = forks = fingers/hands. Another suggestion is that on the early […]
Long in the Tooth – means old, especially of horses – Horses’s teeth, unlike humans’, continue to grow with age. They also wear down with use, but the changes in the characteristics of the teeth over time make it possible to make a rough estimate of a horse’s age by examining them.The term was later coined […]
LIKE GRANDMA USE TO MAKE Old Homemade Recipes CUSTARD PIE (1890s) Heat together until very light the yolks of four eggs and four tablespoonfuls of sugar, flavor with nutmeg or vanilla; then add the four beaten whites, a pinch of salt and, lastly, a quart of sweet milk; mix well and pour into tins lined […]
Photographs bring back memories These photographs will bring back memories of the smell of fresh washed clothes hung out to dry on the line, the milkman delivering milk to your house, and pushing babies in strollers down the sidewalk on a beautiful fall day. Ah….the good old days! Greenhills is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United […]
After a grueling day picking cotton, at the New Deal, Lake Dick Project in Arkansas, day laborers were rewarded with their pay each evening for their work. The counting and recording took time so the laborers had to wait time to receive payment. Many rested, while others stood and watched the monetary transactions as these photographs taken by Russell […]
