Author's note : Forword : Making hex designs : The well hook of yesterday : The full measure : Whellbarrow : The American necktie : Small-size Americana : Candy Hammer and scissors : A good time for travel : slow but sure : Time is long and art is fleeting : You can spot the old ones a mile away : Art is how you look at it : Plan for ye olde barn : The blue streak and the red flash : Man and wife : Oops! : First prize : Solution at end : the gentle art of sliding : the king's mark and the white pine : the old Almanacs : Bells are for ringing : The trials of art : Capitalism : Witchcraft : Billions : When the sands of time ran three times faster : The dear old past : the great bathtub hoax : Skeins and gaggles : A gazebo and a penthouse : American good luck : Hear Ye : Mr. Terwilliger : Signs of the times : Dutch ovens and Franklin stoves : It seems like only yesterday : E. Sloane signs : The painter's delight : The American premium : The Germans liked any color as long as it was red : the nutmeg flag : The column that put me in the dog house : Sign of the handyman : The target : The first paper bag : John Fuzz was : When a church looked like a church : The heritage of age : A box full of memories : A Franklin stone : Simple Tools : Apple Butter : The good old days.

Based on authors newspaper articales of American life in the past.

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