Conspirators on the "Hot Seat"

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I was thinking on Sunday when the electricity and AC were kapoot that I wished I had one of those large, palm-leaf fans that everyone seemed to have around the house when I was a child. They were very popular during the 19th-century, and we have several that we put in period rooms at Surratt House during the summer to show the public the early version of air conditioning. We also lower the shades on hot days to show how the Victorians cooled the house.