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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 11:16:42 AM
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Got a wonderful book in an antiques shoppe yesterday .. The Good Old Days .. An Invitation to Memory ... "This stirring collection of stories, reminiscences, and beautiful illustrations re-creates a treasured way of life that has all but disppeared: the good old days of the family farm and its nearby village.
Here is rural America before the gasoline engine and the industrialization of agriculture brought about by economic and social revolution in farming.
Here are the toil and hardship, the rewards and pleasures of threshing time and harvets, rabbit hunting, bringing in the cows, summer chores and stocking the winter woodpile, spring planting, and stream fishing.
And here, too, are all the insttutions and events that were a vital pat of rural life: the sringhouse and root cellar; the village with its cuontry store, smith,livery and feed; the county fair, with it s balloon ascension; the forth of July parade, the traveling medicine and store wagon; the one-room school and the McGuffey reader; dirt roads and covered bridges; courtship, marriage and the family cemetary.
The is a 1960 edition .. but if you can find it .. it is a good read!!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
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Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 11:21:14 AM
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That sounds really interesting. I love stuff like that. My children are going to do a land run celebration for their school and I need to make up some outfits for them. I'm excited.
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. "Take out the weeds from some wild spot, remove each stone that shows, plant seeds of friendship good and deep, and tend the plant that grows." Mary Freeman Startzman |
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vintagechica
True Blue Farmgirl
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Eren
Poolville
TX
USA
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Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 12:07:00 PM
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Oh Rebecca...we used to the land run thing when I was a kid there. I remember the teachers used to chalk out the state of OK outside in the red dirt and we used to take our wagons all decked out. Oh, man that brings back memories. Glad to know they still do that.
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
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Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 12:11:56 PM
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Oh, I'm looking forward to it so much! When I was a little girl, Daddy made me a covered wagon! I was so excited.
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·. "Take out the weeds from some wild spot, remove each stone that shows, plant seeds of friendship good and deep, and tend the plant that grows." Mary Freeman Startzman |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 22 2007 : 3:23:08 PM
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tell us about 'land runs' ,, i've never heard of them??? (i was born and raised in washington, d.c. ... city girl!)
xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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