By Susan Marschalk Green ~ The next time you open your refrigerator and stand there contemplating the appeal of its contents, you might also consider that this move probably would have landed you in big trouble in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Why? Because ice was a precious commodity in the days before residential electrical service became a ubiquitous source of power for…

By Susan Marschalk Green ~ Like many 20th-century American couples, my parents chose to relocate and raise their kids in a community that was quite a distance from their respective hometowns. Visiting the folks meant loading up the family station wagon once or twice a year to make the daylong trek from east central Florida to about halfway up the Georgia-South Carolina state line,…