Joan Donaldson: 3 books

Do photographs of old wood cook stoves make you wonder what it would be like to taste biscuits baked in a cast iron oven? To rest your cold feet on the oven door and drink tea? In this short book, Donaldson guides the novice from choosing a wood cook stove, to how to build a fire, how to use the draft...

This short biography shows how "the perfect shapes in nature" inspired young Spencer to create Spencerian Script. Spencer is considered the Father of American Penmanship partly because he was the first person to publish a series of copybooks that teachers used in their classrooms. Anyone...

Have you dreamed of tapping your maple trees, collecting sap and boiling it into maple syrup? But you're not sure if those trees in the backyard are maples? What kind of weather is necessary for the sap to run? And what would kind of tube brings the sap from the tree so it falls into a bucket? Should...