by Kate Dolan | Oct 14, 2025 | 19th Century America, Colonial America, Latest Posts, Living History, Travel
I love tourist traps—as long as they’re historic. I think it’s fun to imagine all the travelers who visted before me: parents in awe, children annoyed and underwhelmed and wondering when it’s time to eat. So, for years, every time we passed the billboards on I-81 in...
by Kate Dolan | Mar 1, 2015 | Articles, Colonial America, Food, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History
Today we usually think of apple cider as a wholesome children’s drink, but for most of the past thousand years, cider often contained as much alcohol as beer. Thanks to wild yeast present in the air, the natural sugar in apple juice begins to ferment (turn to...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 24, 2015 | Articles, Colonial America, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History
Actually, the title of this article is misleading because the article explains how the Founding Fathers couldn’t possibly get drunk on the beer they brewed. Most of them, anyway. That’s because most of them brewed “small beer.” Small beer...
