Vintagativity
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2025, February 21 Ashland Keychain Library
Ashland, Virginia, a city in our county, has plenty of quirky things that make it unique: I mean, seriously, it calls itself the "Center of the Universe"!
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When our daughter Jae went to Shanghai, she made a point of grabbing photos of things that were meaningful to the family. This is a beautiful Chinese apothecary chest located in one of her professors' favorite restaurants.
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Mount Vernon, in Mount Vernon, Virginia, US, was the home of George and Martha Washington. Atop its cupola is a unique 1778 weathervane, designed by Washington himself. Copies of this iconic decoration are sold by Mount Vernon's gift shop (albeit brass, rather than the original's gold leaf).
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For years I've been visiting Yorktown Bookstore. This visit, they had this box from The Booker Laboratory. Since Dr. Daniel H. Sterling, my apothecary inspiration, had a pharmacy in Norfolk, I thought this was pretty interesting.
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Finding recipes online is untenable. You have to scroll 6-8 times just to see what ingredients are required. There's far more emphasis on ads than yummy cooking.
Enter our 1-Scroll Recipes online. Tasty cooking, tested for years, often added by request. Release your inner chef!
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1895 was the year The Williamsburg Drug Company was started. My pharmacist ancestor Dr. Daniel Sterling briefly lived and Williamsburg (as well as Portsmouth, Richmond, and Norfolk), so I popped into their Jamestown Road pharmacy to see one of his contemporaries. (Scroll to the bottom to see an up close of the neon sign.)
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Interior design has a sticky problem. The more successful one is at creating a long-term, livable nest, the less likely that the customer is going to need ongoing purchases, unless they build a new house or addition.
And that's a problem, because interior design is inherently a retail business. For some, design provides a practical way to build comfort in life. For others, it provides a faux psychological sense of completion, acceptance and feng shui.
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Collecting apothecary began for me as a way to honor and remember my 3rd great-grandfather, Dr. Daniel G. Sterling, surgeon in the US Army during the Civil War, and pharmacist in Richmond, Virginia (his house and office) and at the eponymous Sterling Drug Store on Church Street in Norfolk, VA.
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Family heirlooms are very appealing for use in interior design. What's amazing about them is their built-in level of comfort. Instead of emphasizing just where they were purchased, they have a layered meaning related to who owned them and how they were used.
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