“Coming Out of the Mud”

If you could spend a day in the early 1900s, you might have a little trouble understanding what people were saying! Some words had radically different meanings. For instance, there’s the word “slacker.”  A slacker was any able-bodied young man who...

Healthy Bungalows

Dr. Joseph Lister – a 19th Century British physician – is largely responsible for the bungalow craze, but that’s one tidbit that I’ve never seen in my books on architectural history. The fact is, Joseph Lister and his germ theory dramatically...