The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of famil…

- Alice Morse Earle

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

- Alice Morse Earle

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Fl…

- Alice Morse Earle

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

- Alice Morse Earle

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearab…

- Alice Morse Earle

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

- Alice Morse Earle

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the m…

- Alice Morse Earle

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

- Alice Morse Earle

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that p…

- Alice Morse Earle