 Two women seated in parlor Courtesy of the Washington County Historical Society |
For more than a century, the kitchen had been the heart of the typical Arkansas farmhouse, a testimony to the central role of the wife in the life of a family farm. Often her efforts were supported by adjoining rooms such as a pantry or a washroom and her domain extended into the backyard to woodpile, well, clothesline, chicken coop, and garden. The Industrial Revolution brought labor-saving devices, but escalating expectations as well as embodied in the notions of "home economics" and "domestic science."
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