LI's house museums look back centuries
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | The master bedroom inside the 1743 James Havens Homestead Museum on Shelter Island has furnishings from the 19th and 20th centuries. (July 31, 2012)
House museums offer glimpses of a bygone way of life
At Long Island's plethora of house museums, visitors will see items similar to those pictured in books about Colonial-era life, along with a few head-scratchers that elicit a smile when you hear what they do.
A flat, wooden structure with a wide bottom and a somewhat narrower top functioned as a "baby minder," meant to keep toddlers safe and out from underfoot as parents worked. A small metal...
