I love the Vermont Country Store catalog. It's like a time machine on paper.. Part of the fun for me is flipping through the pages and thinking, "I remember that… and that… and that…" There's the toys, of course - the Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots, monkeys in a barrel, Raggedy Ann doll (I didn't have Mrs. Beasley, and envied my friend down the street who ( Read more... )

In America, children used to go around begging in disguise at Thanksgiving time ( Read more... )