Everyday Life
School, family, the milkman, the medicine cabinet: how ordinary days really looked.
When the milkman came to your door: how much milk was delivered, what it cost, and why it stopped
In 1954 more than half of America's milk still came to the door. The USDA numbers on home delivery, what the milkman's quart cost against the store's, and why it faded.
Old childhood games to play outside, with the rules and chants as they were written down
How to play Kick the Can, Red Rover, Red Light, Mother May I, Statues, hide-and-seek, jacks and jump rope, from rules and chants written down between 1883 and 1978.
The polio sugar cube: why families got their vaccine on a Sunday, in a paper cup
In the early 1960s whole towns lined up on Sundays for Sabin's oral polio vaccine on a sugar cube. What it was, what it cost, and why the U.S. stopped in 2000.