Country Kitchens

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Early American kitchens had a hearth for cooking and served as the center of home life, as described in The Story of My Life, (http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=26) of 1899, the autobiography of Mary Livermore, who was a lecturer and women's rights reformer. A good example is at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.