Before TV there was radio, and it was pretty dang good. Saturday and Sunday night milking chores in our dairy were not so bad because of the great radio lineup: Johnny Dollar, Gunsmoke, Gene Autry, Our Miss Brooks, Corliss Archer, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Amos 'N Andy, Louisiana Hayride, plus others I'm forgetting. During the week there was Beulah, Fred Allen, George and Gracie, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid ("Cisco! The sheriff he is getting closer!" "This way, Pancho! Follow!"); Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons, Hartstone of the Death Squad, FBI in Peace and War (featuring the weekly "10 Most Wanted" list, usually headed by elusive bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton. Radio was great in a work environment because you didn't have to focus your eyes on anything.
The other things I remember best about rural/farm life were: the annual pond-seignings, when pretty much the entire community would gather at some landowner's pond with seigning nets. A big fishfry ensued. Hog-killing day; here again, a big gathering of family and neighbors to help put away a pen of hogs. And last, sitting out on the front porch in the cool of the evening with parents, relatives or neighbors, shelling peas or beans and listening to the adults talk. There might have even been a churn of hand-cranked ice cream involved.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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