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Keeping House Linda speaks with author Cheryl Mendelson about her book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House. Mendelson is a lawyer, philosopher and sometime professor who has used her research skills to learn the truth about the history of house keeping. The book also provides instruction in tasks from making a good fire in a fireplace to tuning a piano.

Keeping House

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Keeping House

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Linda speaks with author Cheryl Mendelson about her book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House. Mendelson is a lawyer, philosopher and sometime professor who has used her research skills to learn the truth about the history of house keeping. The book also provides instruction in tasks from making a good fire in a fireplace to tuning a piano.

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