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Working in black and white increases contrast and highlights shadows in the drawings, Ham says.Ham and one of his creations.This device was used to spit roast meat and fowl. The food was speared on the horizontal rod, then the device was turned around to face the fire. The cook could check on doneness by raising a top panel and turning the spit if needed. When stoves with built-in overns were intruduced, people complained that food lacked the flavor that came from exposure directly to flame.The small space in the back of the hearth served as an oven. Hot coals would be scooped in until the walls were heated. Then the coals would be swept out, food placed inside to bake, and a door put across the opening. Foods needing the hottest cooking temperatures went first, followed by those requiring lower temperatures until the oven was cooled. An artisan renders lard at a demonstration of open-hearth cooking at the Strawbery Banke Museum.Sea captains like Wheelwright sailed the world over in clipper ships, some built in Portsmouth. They brought back coffee, in the bowl, left, and spices that would have been backed in boxes like this one.Before the advent of metal springs, matresses rested on a network of ropes. It reportedly afforded a not terribly comfortable night's sleep.This feather matress is in the Wheelwright House dating from around the 1870s. Wheelwwright was another merchant captain.Mrs. Abbott's cramped kitchen had two stoves. This one, a gas stove, was often used to prepare items to be sold in the store.Mrs. Abbott's kitchen was on the first floor, to the left of the grocery store. Note the coal-burning stove and the miniscule kitchen sink.Photos of Mrs. Abbott's family. Note that most of the males are in uniform.The pump in the background left dispensed kerosene, less rigidly rationed than gasoline during WWII. The poster urges patrons to pinch pennies to fight inflation.The shelves in Mrs. Abbott's store hold the same products they did when she ran it during WWII. Note the familiar brand names; also note that many products have shifted from aluminum or tin cans to jars or paper containers, to save metal for the war effort.A Strawbery Banke reenacter in front of the Marden-Abbott grocery operated by Mrs. Abbott during the WWII period. This cast-iron stove cooked meals and heated the Shapiro's three-story house. Note the coal bucket on the right. The favored fuel had switched from wood to coal with the advent of railroad service.This reenacter portrays Mrs. Shapiro, matriarch on an orthodox Jewish family that emgirated from the Ukraine to Portsmouth at the beginning of the 20th century. She is demonstrating how to make a cookie called This quiet garden next to the Aldrich house was started by admirers of his in 1907. Today, it nestles in a circular grove of mature hemlock trees, that manage to sustain a breeze even on the hottest, stillest days.The Thomas Bailey Aldrich House was the first house acquired by the museum. Aldrich spent his youth here and wrote about his boyhood antics in a book that many thought presaged Mark Twain's writing. Aldrich was later editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine.Fire buckets hang from hooks between landings on the circular stairwell in the Goodwin House. It's hard to see how they would have been much help against any but the most insignificant fire.The formal dining room in the Gov. Ichabod Goodwin House. The patterned dishes were probably imported from England.This portrait of Sarah Rice Parker Goodwin also hangs in the restored Goodwin home. Although in this portrait she appears a good deal younger than her husband, they were in fact age contemporaries when they married in 1820.Portrait of Ichabod Goodwin hangs in the parlor of his restored home at Strawbery Banke.This Victorian-era greenhouse was added to the grounds of the Sarah Parker Rice Goodwin gardens at Strawbery Banke. It was moved from another N.H. landmark, the Wentworth Hotel.J.D. or John Doe, a neighborhood cat that prowls the grounds to the delight of children if not of the resident rodent population.The Gov. Ichabod Goodwin House seen from the formal garden behind the house.Looking from a vantage point in front of the Captain Walsh House toward the Piscataqua River. The broad expanse of lawn covers an old, filled in canal up which large, flat bottomed boats called The Captain John Walsh House. The canal from the Piscataqua River led up almost to his front door. The very knowledgeable and gracious Amy Moy, communications director for the Strawbery Banke Museum, was my guide for my tour of the museum.More than 400 fishing boats are based in Seabrook, N.H.'s tiny harbor.The next few images are of fishing boats in Seabrook, N.H. harbor.Bob Campbell, manager of the Yankee Fisherman's Cooperative in Seabrook, N.H