You can see our home on the cover and in the article on pages 20-29 in the latest issue of Early American Life magazine.
The magazine is currently in the mail to subscribers and will be for sale on newsstands on Tuesday 10/22/13.
If you are still curious about our house after reading the great article written by Jeanmarie Andrews and seeing the wonderful photographs taken by Winfield Ross in the current issue of Early American Life, you may want to come back here to read upcoming posts-
Behind the Scenes – What You Didn’t See in the Magazine
A Search Through Time, The History of Our House
Looking Back at Our 2013 Vegetable Gardens
In the meantime I invite you to enjoy browsing through past posts and receipts (recipes).
Paula
Paula Walton's 18th Century Home Journal 
Paula,
My bookstore doesn’t carry EAL any more, so I had to order a copy to get to see your home. I.m so glad I did! It was fun to get a little peek at your home life. Looks like your family timeline with three sons’ ages is just a few years before mine. My boys are 28, 25, and 21 this month. I got an eight year stint in Japan and Guam instead of an 18th century house. Too bad I couldn’t have both! My little apartment is overflowing with my collections. AND, I’m relieved to know that Depression glass is not too new for an 18th century house. It is also one of my passions.
Truly, Jennie
Jennie,
I so glad you liked it, especially since you had to go to so much trouble to get a copy. I was talking to Tess Rosch, EALs publisher, yesterday afternoon and she told me that she had been at the Simple Goods show over the weekend and that “people are talking about your house”. I’m hoping that they are talking about it in a good way!
We think the article turned out really well and Tess, her husband Winfield Ross, the photographer, and EAL editor Jeanmarie Andrews, who wrote the article, did a fantastic job.
Our house is full of things that are much more recent than the 18th century 🙂 I think of it more as a family home that has retained possessions from all of it’s occupants down through it’s lifetime. Although in truth, old New England homes that pass down through families often have fewer antiques in daily use than we have, as their owners have gotten tired of “all that old junk”. LOL I could never give up my Depression glass! I’ve been collecting it for most of my life!!! My sister and I are very fond of dishes, which is a trait that we inherited from our mother. Consequently we both have some of Mom’s dishes as well as many, many more of our own. We both collect multiple patterns, plus any odd dish here or there that catches our fancy.
Paula