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Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

By Elizabeth P. Archibald
Unabridged — 2 hours, 34 minutes
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Unabridged — 2 hours, 34 minutes
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Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward.

Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird.

Whether it's eighteenth-cent...