Thomas Hough, immigrant and entrepreneur

by | Jul 21, 2015 | heirlooms

Thomas Hough, an enterprising young man, was born in 1844 into a lower-class family in Yorkshire, England, and didn’t like his prospects. His education stopped at the sixth grade, and his dad was a wagon driver. He got a job at the local  cotton mill as a lift...
The tale of Granny’s punch bowl: where next?

The tale of Granny’s punch bowl: where next?

by | May 25, 2015 | heirlooms

When I was a kid, Granny had a punch bowl in the middle of her dining room table. She was an old lady, with feet in the Victorian era. So the punch bowl is flowery and Victorian. It probably had belonged to her  mother, a high-society lady for the small town of...