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Drive the older farm country of the Midwest and you keep passing them without knowing it: a row of scruffy, thorny, badly shaped trees running dead straight along…
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A lot of American houses built between roughly 1900 and the 1930s have a room that makes no sense to a modern buyer. Upstairs, off a bedroom, there…
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There is one in a box in a lot of American attics: a wooden handle, a hood with two lenses in it, a sliding wire rack out front,…
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They come out of attics in paper envelopes with a drawing on the front, and inside is a folded mass of crackling tissue covered in printed lines, holes,…
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It is the cast iron thing with the crank and the clamp screw, in the back of a kitchen cupboard or on a shelf in a barn, usually…
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They sell for serious money now. A nineteenth-century American weather vane in copper - a horse, a cow, a rooster, an Indian, a locomotive, an arrow - is…