My dad driving kids to the one room school and home again, as there was no bus service for the rural schools
asking Miss Fortune, the only teacher, if I could come in early and pull the rope to ring the bell for recesses and at noon
staying with Grandma on 'the farm' and listening for her to leave her bedroom and head downstairs, I would quickly get up and help 'build fire' in the cookstove and then it was down into the basement to 'build fire' in the furnace this time of year.
folks not using ANY foul language
going outside to play after changing out of school clothes
iron-on patches that saved mom a lot of time instead of mending pants for school, work clothes as she did for years
clocks that showed the time...back when time wasn't just a number on a display
Dial soap with the clock on the bar
Colgate toothpaste in an aerosol can
cream, not milk on cereal and berries and peaches and cream in coffee made on the stove
A & P grinding coffee up front for Grandma
the egg market
Tippy, the farm dog
laying in bed on the farm and hearing the windmill moaning and the rooster crowing
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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