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PAST NEWS ARCHIVE
November 20, 2001
Contact: Patricia Fraga, Austin Public Library, (512) 974-7528
Fax: (512) 974-7442

December Author Visit @ Pleasant Hill Branch and Old Quarry Branch

On Saturday, December 1, 2001 the Austin Public Library will host the author of Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Texas: A Practical Primer for Daily Living—compiled and edited by Carol Padgett, PhD. Keeping Hearth & Home is a "how-to" book. It's more than a great cover to cover read. It's a guide to fulfilling the functions that kept the wheels of life turning for the nineteenth-century Texas homemaker and her family. It provides a delightful yet highly informative glimpse into the daily tasks and concerns of the late-Victorian lady. The advice and voice are quaint now, and sometimes uproariously funny. You're sure to enjoy learning about the lives of the women who came before us, at a time when the country was just being introduced to so many of the inventions we take for granted today.

So welcome to the family household. Come indoors, pull up a fireside rocker, and discover how the everyday rituals of a bustling nineteenth-century home can bring history to life more vividly than ever.

The following locations will host this program:

11:00 a.m. Pleasant Hill Branch of the Austin Public Library, 211 E. William Cannon Drive
2:00 p.m. Old Quarry Branch of the Austin Public Library, 7051 Village Center Drive

For additional information call (512) 974-7400 or visit the APL Web site at http://www.cityofaustin.org/library/.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Carol Padgett is a researcher and writer living in Birmingham, Alabama. Her fascination with how folks live was seeded in childhood elder-lore, blossomed into a psychotherapy practice, and now bears fruit in her work with the dying.

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