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AESTHETICS AND ETHICS COME HOME - From features on old-house design and historic preservation to essays considering the importance of local economies and the meaning of home, Nancy Hiller brings disciplined questioning to every piece she writes.

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American Bungalow

     
Stinesville South Dunn Street    

 

  

Old-House Interiors

     
"Money Well Spent"
September '03 issue		 "On Matters of Taste"
September '04 issue		 "Wedded to Place"
November '05 issue		  

 

  

Arts and Crafts Homes and the Revival

     
Replica Kitchen for a Tudor House      

 

  

Bloom

     
Mary Agnes Conard Green Homes Godsey Cabinet Shop  
       
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Maple Grove Road A Green Love Affair    

 

  

Foreword to Rachel Peden's The Land, The People

         
(Indiana University Press, August 2010)      

 

  

Indiana Magazine of History

March 2009
The Hoosier Cabinet and the American Housewife

 

Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding

(See "Press")

 

Repast

Repast, Quarterly Publication of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor

         
Summer 2010 (Volume XXVI, Number 3)
“Patience and Her Cousins: The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet” 		      

 

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—Chuck Bickford, Fine Homebuilding

“Nancy is meticulous about facts and meets every deadline. Her sense of commitment and involvement is total. Bloom Magazine is a better publication because of Nancy.”
—Malcolm Abrams, Editor, Bloom Magazine
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“After you read a piece of writing by Nancy Hiller, you notice that you occupy the world a little differently. Your eyes look longer at the eave. Your palm lingers longer on that table. You ask an extra question to the woman rocking on the front porch. This is writing that encourages perception for the sake of knowing where you live--your kitchen, your house, your community--better. From forgotten neighborhoods to a banister's curve, Hiller takes the time to look, to research, and to convey her subject's fullness.


She tracks objects from wooded forest to dinette, and while she does she also relates their social, manufacturing, gender, and visual history. Underlying her sentences is a profound ethics, arguing that knowing more about things will encourage us to treat them differently. This is a sort of preaching that comes not from knowing better, but from knowing the daily joy of experiencing more."
—Kathryn Lofton, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Yale University