PAST MASTERS Members' Publications and Presentations

-- Clarissa F. Dillon, Ph.D. -- 768 Buck Lane Haverford, PA 19041
Medicine	"To strengthen, to comfort, and to heal: Receipt Book for John H. Mundall," edited by Clarissa F. Dillon This collection of medicinal receipts provides an overview of medical theories and practices in the Philadelphia area at the end of the 18th century. There is an interesting spectrum of material—from the simplest of domestic remedies to a physician’s prescription in Latin. Many sources have been identified; they include individuals, household books, apothecaries’ manuals, medical self-help volumes, almanacs, newspapers—an amazing range of materials. $20.00 USD + $3.00 USD shipping/handling. Wholesale price available.
Gardens	"A large, an useful, and a grateful Field - Eighteenth-Century English Kitchen Gardens in Eastern Pennsylvania, the Uses of the Plants, and Their Place in Women's Work, Newly Revised" The rewrite of her 1986 dissertation. Dedicated to historic gardeners who value "dirt 'n turnips," this thick book is in a three-ring binder format to allow the addition of other pages if you wish. Clarissa uses only information for which she has at least two primary sources, and loves to shoot down myths about quaint gardening. $45.00 USD. Shipping costs to be determined. "Ordering a Kitchen Garden, Part I" Paper presented at the 1990 ALHFAM Annual Conference at Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts "Ordering a Kitchen Garden, Part II" Paper presented at the 2000 ALHFAM Annual Conference at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut "This Truck Doesn't Use Diesel" (Truck gardens) Paper presented at the 2001 ALHFAM Annual Conference at Williamsburg, Virginia "18th Century English Kitchen Gardens, Parts I, II and III -- or, 'Dirt & Turnips'" Published in Historical Gardener, 1992 "Weeds or Wildings?" Published in Historical Gardener, 1993
Cooking and Food	"Preserving Fruits and Vegetables" Presented in Fairfax, Virginia "You May Preserve Them Good" Presented at Fraunces Tavern, New York City, New York, 1996 "Holidays and Their Foods" Presented to the Delaware County Historical Society, Broomall, Pennsylvania "Life and Death of John Barleycorn" Paper presented at the 1993 ALHFAM Annual Conference at Minneapolis, Minnesota "They Did Too Eat Tomatoes!" Published in Food History News
Women	"Eighteenth Century Women" Paper presented at Tidy's Symposium, 1995 "Lewd, Enormous and Disorderly Practices" (Prostitution) Paper presented at the 1996 ALHFAM Annual Conference at Houston, Texas "Fire! Fire! False Alarm?" Paper presented at the 1998 ALHFAM Southeastern Regional Conference at Huntsville, Alabama "With Respect to Women" Presented in Somerville, New Jersey, 2000 "Motherhood and More" Presented at Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children	"Childhood in Colonial Days? Let's Get Rid of Alice Morse Earle!" Presented at the ALHFAM Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Landis Valley, Lancaster, Pennsylvania "Eighteenth Century Childhood" Presented to the Radnor Historical Society in Wayne, Pennsylvania
Other	"Is There A Doctor In The House? No." Presented at the 1986 ALHFAM Annual Conference at Guelph, Ontario, Canada "To Make the Face Fair and Smooth" Presented at the 1995 ALHFAM Annual Conference in Hiram, Ohio "Under the Shadow of My Wing: 'Did William Drinker Have TB?'" Presented at the 1997 ALHFAM Annual Conference in Staunton, Virginia "That Art Might Help" Presented to the Costume Society of America in 1999 at Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia "We've Come A Long Way, Baby: How Research and Interpretation of Colonial Life Have Changed Since The Bicentennial" Presented to the Chadds Ford Historical Society in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Books	Order the first three books together and pay $45 with no shipping charges. "A Most Comfortable Dinner" 18th century receipts "to Subsist a Great Number of Persons at a Small Expense." $12 plus $2 shipping. "Margaret Morris, Burlington, NJ -- 1804 Gardening Memorandum" Edited with Nancy V. Webster. $18 plus $2 shipping. "SO SERVE IT UP: Eighteenth Century English Foodways in Eastern Pennsylvania" $18 plus $2 shipping. A Large, an Useful, and a grateful Field: 18th Century Kitchen Gardens in Southeastern Pennsylvania, the Uses of the Plants, and Their Place in Women's Work" UMI, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in press

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-- Deborah Peterson -- 327 Sumneytown Pike Harleysville, PA 19438
Presentations	"The Common Pin" Presented at the 2001 ALHFAM Annual Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia "Stays, the All-Embracing Garment: English Influenced Stays in the Third Quarter of the Eighteenth Century" Presented at the 2000 ALHFAM Annual Conference, Mystic, Connecticut
Papers	"Pound Cake: Two Ways?" Published in the Spring 2002 ALHFAM Bulletin, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, pp. 11-12.