A Great Christmas Gift Idea!
As someone who has received this gift from time to time, I can guarantee you that the recipient will treasure …
Author Archives: mary knapp
A Thanksgiving Prayer
This is the prayer I post every Thanksgiving. I wrote it when grandson #3 was a little boy. We still …
My Aunt Florence—A Young Woman in Wartime
Earlier this week I posted a tribute to our veterans and told the story of our family’s soldier, Daniel Leffel, …
In Honor of Daniel R Leffel and All Who Have Served
Some of you may have read this before. I have posted it several times in honor of my family’s soldier …
Loveliest of Trees
In the springtime, Housman thought it was the cherry. In the fall, I think it is the ginkgo. That time …
One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of Children and My Eight Minutes of Fame
Forty-two years ago this month, our first book: One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American Children was published by …
The Good Guys Won This One!
The Merchant’s House Museum, showing the original Duncan Phyfe chairs. The carpet and window treatment are exact reproductions of what …
How a Hundred-eighty-six-year-old House Survived the Odds and Why It Should Be Cherished
August, 1933—The country was in the depths of the Great Depression. Gertrude Tredwell had just died at the age of …
Helen Hayes Nailed It!
We never know who is going to walk through the door of the Merchant’s House. One day in August of …
102 Words That Say It All
Ada Louise Huxtable was the first architecture critc for a major U.S. newspaper and will long be remembered for the …
