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...rcia Balisciano says. But she points proudly to restored features like the staircase and paneling, now painted its original pale green color, identified through examination of old paint layers. The house has 14 fireplaces, and in the first-floor parlor's, restorers found an opening for a Franklin stove, which is installed away from the wall to radiate heat around a room. Visitors can take a narrated multimedia tour through the basement and first two floors that Balisciano describes as a "historical experience." "This is not a museum with stuff behind glass and people peering over the red ropes...
...Benjamin Franklin: An American Life,” by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, 2003.) He invented the lightning rod, the bifocal, the Franklin stove, the fire department, and the safety school (Penn...
DIED. RUTH SIEMS, 74, General Foods research-and-development staff member whose carefully planned recipe made Stove Top stuffing a best-selling comfort to harried mothers everywhere; of a heart attack; in Newburgh, Ind. Knowing that bread-crumb size held the key to liquid absorption--and thus "proper texture and mouthfeel," as the patent stated--she determined the precise dimensions of the ideal crumb--about those of a pencil eraser. Now part of Kraft, Stove Top sells some 60 million boxes every Thanksgiving...
Still, it would be misleading to caricature Fitzgerald as a humorless social misfit. It's true that he lacks certain domestic skills; for years, he famously piled reams of papers on the nonworking stove in his New York apartment. But he was also the one called on to roast departing colleagues and could always be counted on to join raucous beer drinking after a game of rugby or baseball...
...loving what I'm doing. Every minute is a joy." His life is a blur of activity. He lives alone in his white, Cape Cod--style house, where he often cooks for friends or lifts light weights. His paintings hang everywhere, including around bookcases and over the wood stove. Hundreds of sketches are stacked up in his studio, a converted bedroom. "You haven't seen messy till you've seen my studio," he says cheerfully...