Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Items from the Gibson House Collection: The Coffee Grinder


The 1800s and 1900s were marked by vast technological innovations, including those that transformed food processing. Such advancements made it affordable for families to own devices that made cooking easier.

The Gibson House kitchen displays a wide assortment of antique appliances that illustrate the way food was processed a century ago. One of these items, a coffee grinder (pictured above), would have been present in most middle- and upper-class nineteenth-century kitchens because of the beverage’s popularity.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

A Brief Sketch of the Life of Annie Crowninshield Warren

Annie Crowninshield Warren, age 88


We have shared stories from Rosamond Warren Gibson’s Recollections of My Life for My Children, including an 1864 trip to New Orleans during the Civil War. But I was recently excited to learn that Rosamond’s mother, Annie Crowninshield Warren, wrote a similar work for her own children entitled Reminiscences of My Life.

Since I don’t have much of an opportunity to talk about Rosamond’s mother on tours at the Gibson House, I figured I would share a brief biographical sketch of Annie’s life on our blog, drawing upon her Reminiscences.