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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
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Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
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 Posted - Sep 23 2020 : 09:30:25 AM
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2020 : 11:44:46 AM
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What a fun and lovely photo you found, Connie. I sure would love to own a truck like that one!
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Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2020 : 11:52:30 AM
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| Great picture, Connie. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
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Denise
Ohio
USA
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Sep 27 2020 : 12:44:23 PM
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I have always loved this picture. Growing up, it was always on the front page of the Chicago Tribune Magazine when fall started. I hope you like it, too. Reminds me that Fall is a great time to enjoy the cooler weather and wonderful colors of Fall. Good storytellers, as many grandparents are, are great to have around, too.
In case you can't read the words on this picture, Here they are, as originally written by John T. McCutcheon and published in the Chicago Tribune, September 30, 1907:
Yep, sonny this is sure enough Injun summer. Don't know what that is, I reckon, do you? Well, that's when all the homesick Injuns come back to play; You know, a long time ago, long afore yer granddaddy was born even, there used to be heaps of Injuns around here—thousands—millions, I reckon, far as that's concerned. Reg'lar sure 'nough Injuns—none o' yer cigar store Injuns, not much. They wuz all around here—right here where you're standin'.
Don't be skeered—hain't none around here now, leastways no live ones. They been gone this many a year.
They all went away and died, so they ain't no more left.
But every year, 'long about now, they all come back, leastways their sperrits do. They're here now. You can see 'em off across the fields. Look real hard. See that kind o' hazy misty look out yonder? Well, them's Injuns—Injun sperrits marchin' along an' dancin' in the sunlight. That's what makes that kind o' haze that's everywhere—it's jest the sperrits of the Injuns all come back. They're all around us now.
See off yonder; see them tepees? They kind o' look like corn shocks from here, but them's Injun tents, sure as you're a foot high. See 'em now? Sure, I knowed you could. Smell that smoky sort o' smell in the air? That's the campfires a-burnin' and their pipes a-goin'.
Lots o' people say it's just leaves burnin', but it ain't. It's the campfires, an' th' Injuns are hoppin' 'round 'em t'beat the old Harry.
You jest come out here tonight when the moon is hangin' over the hill off yonder an' the harvest fields is all swimmin' in the moonlight, an' you can see the Injuns and the tepees jest as plain as kin be. You can, eh? I knowed you would after a little while.
Jever notice how the leaves turn red 'bout this time o' year? That's jest another sign o' redskins. That's when an old Injun sperrit gits tired dancin' an' goes up an' squats on a leaf t'rest. Why I kin hear 'em rustlin' an' whisper in' an' creepin' 'round among the leaves all the time; an' ever' once'n a while a leaf gives way under some fat old Injun ghost and comes floatin' down to the ground. See—here's one now. See how red it is? That's the war paint rubbed off'n an Injun ghost, sure's you're born.
Purty soon all the Injuns'll go marchin' away agin, back to the happy huntin' ground, but next year you'll see 'em troopin' back—th' sky jest hazy with 'em and their campfires smolderin' away jest like they are now. |
Linda B
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Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
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Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Sep 27 2020 : 9:19:21 PM
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| Linda, that is quite a story. I've never heard anything like that before. |
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
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Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Sep 27 2020 : 10:14:43 PM
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| Thank you Linda -- it's nice to see this again. |
Judith
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Happiness is Homemade
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isewbernina
Farmgirl at Heart
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Kathy
Salina
KS
USA
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Posted - Oct 24 2020 : 2:50:50 PM
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I loved the story, Linda. Indian Summer is one of my favorite times of the year. When I was young it was a time of raking leaves, burning them in the yard, going to my uncles' farm, and riding the trailer out into the woods for a hotdog roast and roasting marshmallows over the coals. So much fun!
Lots of wonderful memories for sure. Kathy |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
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Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Oct 25 2020 : 5:10:21 PM
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Linda,
Thanks for sharing this! Love reading it again. |
Denise~~
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