Word: barnardã
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...spins yarns about colonial life and the people who lived it from the most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures’ fabrics. Hannah Barnard??€™s cupboard and Betty Foot’s bed rug indicate the importance that was placed on maintaining gentility even on the new American frontier...