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5/16/2013 10:17:20 AM
A visit to a local artist who works with pebbles and boulders and no glue.
5/3/2013 8:23:37 PM
Dad and Mom had the early garden planted, and trout season was near. He knew that the horseradish needed attention, but trout season was also near. Would he be faithful to his family and harvest that hot stuff, or forget about his duty as a father.
4/30/2013 3:19:01 PM
The Sells update on their job ventures, home buying and getting Becky's perspective straight for a more fulfilling life at home.
4/23/2013 10:19:41 AM
This jalapeno cornbread recipe is served at the Salt Lick Barbecue in Driftwood, Texas, and has become a favorite for many of its patrons.
4/22/2013 5:22:12 PM
This slightly-sweet homemade bread recipe gives you a soft crumb and crispy crust.
4/22/2013 5:03:28 PM
In this recipe a perfectly seasoned batter takes fried catfish and hush puppies to the next level.
4/22/2013 4:30:31 PM
"The Salt Lick Cookbook" is a son’s recipe- and story-filled homage to his father’s love of barbecue and his family’s love of Texas.
4/18/2013 1:27:54 PM
Are you afraid to throw away anything from your barn, thinking a rare, high dollar antique maybe residing in the dust and debris of decades of farm junk. My son decided accumulation since 1968 was long enough. Would he find a hidden treasure?
4/10/2013 9:39:41 AM
Words of encouragement for beginning homesteaders.
4/3/2013 3:47:09 PM
Neighbors drop off window air conditioner in a random act of kindness during a hot summer day.
3/28/2013 2:33:19 PM
Homesteading and growing vegetables took determination to cultivate and protect; prickly pear sauce used to fight scurvy.
3/28/2013 8:25:06 AM
A woman gets locked in an outhouse on a family roadtrip and is saved by a little boy.
3/27/2013 5:04:09 PM
A woman gets locked in the outhouse and thinks she is stuck for the night.
3/27/2013 4:56:11 PM
A young girl throws a doll down the outhouse hole not realizing its worth.
3/27/2013 4:52:39 PM
Too much weight in the outhouse causes it to break with two people inside.
3/27/2013 4:49:12 PM
A tornado struck neighbor’s farm and moves the outhouse to another field with a hired hand inside.
3/27/2013 4:45:37 PM
The floor of the outhouse gives way and three women fall in.
3/27/2013 4:41:55 PM
Two girls get stuck in the outhouse and one finds a way for them to get out.
3/27/2013 4:38:17 PM
A wedding attendant loses a shoe in the outhouse.
3/27/2013 4:27:43 PM
Young men and women often used the outhouse as a place to smoke.
3/27/2013 4:23:56 PM
Children used the outhouse as a place to hide mistakes, such as broken eggs.
3/27/2013 4:20:07 PM
Horses and rack catch a line attached to the outhouse and tip it over with a girl inside.
3/27/2013 4:16:17 PM
A family’s outhouse explodes and throws the man inside across a field.
3/27/2013 4:12:25 PM
Family expects family from California when the outhouse catches fire.
3/27/2013 4:07:54 PM
A mother just learns to drive and backs the car into the outhouse on the first day.
3/27/2013 4:03:25 PM
A young teacher stays with a family but has to walk to outhouse in the dark because husband dropped the flashlight down the hole.
3/27/2013 3:59:14 PM
A group of gypsies drop cigarettes in the outhouse and burn it down.
3/27/2013 3:14:39 PM
Girl gets a cut from hitting her head on the outhouse roof.
3/27/2013 3:10:29 PM
Girl accidentally drops a rock on her sister’s toe while preparing the bath.
3/27/2013 2:59:14 PM
Dad shoots at a rat in the outhouse not knowing someone is inside.
3/27/2013 2:54:12 PM
A visiting college friend drops a burning cigarette and lights the fancy outhouse on fire.
3/27/2013 2:49:47 PM
A young girl showing off her new red shoes drops one in the outhouse.
3/27/2013 2:45:13 PM
A man smoking in the outhouse forgets about the motor oil he dumped down the hole days earlier.
3/27/2013 2:41:14 PM
While their mother is away at a meeting, children break her favorite bowl and hide the pieces in the outhouse.
3/27/2013 2:36:57 PM
An ornery bull tips over the outhouse with a child inside.
3/27/2013 2:32:25 PM
A girl kicks her shoes in the outhouse, and a fishing pole saves them.
3/27/2013 2:28:00 PM
A visiting brother tricks siblings into fishing out his glasses from the outhouse.
3/27/2013 2:23:13 PM
A boy learning to use a gun almost shoots his dad in the outhouse.
3/27/2013 2:18:28 PM
A girl drops her book in the outhouse and her mom fishes it out.
3/27/2013 2:08:00 PM
A rifle misfire hits grandpa instead of the chicken.
3/27/2013 1:58:29 PM
Pie suppers and other school programs at the rural schoolhouse was great fun during the Depression.
3/27/2013 1:54:12 PM
Childhood memories include the joy of pie suppers as a way to raise money for the rural schoolhouse.
3/27/2013 1:47:50 PM
Girl stopped game on school playground to go to outhouse to fix her bloomers.
3/27/2013 12:17:14 PM
Money raised from auctions provided needed items for school children.
3/27/2013 12:13:30 PM
Still remembers birthday celebrations at the one-room school.
3/27/2013 12:07:04 PM
One-room school was busy when a pie or box supper was held.
3/27/2013 10:26:02 AM
Recalls days gone by of school programs and box suppers.
3/27/2013 10:19:07 AM
Recalls carnival games like chance and a cake walk.
3/27/2013 10:15:08 AM
Recalls teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in 1931.
3/27/2013 10:10:28 AM
Sister filled in for schoolteacher in one-room schoolhouse.
3/27/2013 12:23:34 AM
The beauty of both opposing worlds.
3/26/2013 4:46:44 PM
Taught in one-room schoolhouse during World War II.
3/26/2013 4:39:04 PM
As with so many other things, the one-room school is a thing of the past.
3/26/2013 4:35:35 PM
Mom’s apple pie made first-grader uncomfortable.
3/26/2013 4:31:05 PM
Schoolteacher remembers tossing up curriculum in one-room school.
3/26/2013 4:27:16 PM
Recalls a poem from many years ago at rural schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 4:21:52 PM
Still remembers poem recited at a Christmas program at her one-room school.
3/26/2013 4:16:21 PM
Teacher and others presented a community play at one-room schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 4:09:09 PM
Holidays sparked creativity in school children.
3/26/2013 4:04:52 PM
Schoolteacher fondly recalls school programs.
3/26/2013 4:00:35 PM
Schoolteacher recalls one of her most pleasurable experiences of her teaching career.
3/26/2013 3:53:38 PM
Woman remembers the thrill of rural schoolhouse plays and programs.
3/26/2013 3:35:32 PM
Schoolteacher will never forget her first day of school as the teacher.
3/26/2013 3:33:32 PM
Many years ago, school children were prepared to get a job as a schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 3:31:27 PM
Visitor enjoyed the cleanliness of the rural schoolhouse after the teacher did her janitorial duties and left for the night.
3/26/2013 3:28:46 PM
As a schoolteacher in a rural schoolhouse, there was never a dull moment.
3/26/2013 3:26:47 PM
Teacher in one-room school firmly believed younger students learned more from hearing the older school children recite their studies.
3/26/2013 3:23:47 PM
When mother filled in as schoolteacher, three-year-old accompanied her to the rural schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 3:21:58 PM
Schoolteacher was caught smoking by school children when his pants caught fire.
3/26/2013 3:20:01 PM
Four sisters bought one Christmas tree and planned their school programs so they could share it.
3/26/2013 3:17:35 PM
As a youngster and a schoolteacher, woman recalls the importance of handkerchiefs for men and women.
3/26/2013 3:04:41 PM
When it sensed danger, the dog of one of the school children escorted teacher from her car to the door of the one-room schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 3:03:33 PM
Schoolteacher’s classroom served as an occasional dance hall.
3/26/2013 3:02:30 PM
As a schoolteacher in a one-room school, there were more good memories than bad.
3/26/2013 3:00:21 PM
Neither the schoolteacher nor the school children looked forward to the county superintendent dropping in.
3/26/2013 2:56:44 PM
Mode of dress for a schoolteacher has changed over the years.
3/26/2013 2:54:45 PM
Neighbors added homemade equipment to school playground.
3/26/2013 2:54:22 PM
There were strict rules for a female teacher in a one-room school.
3/26/2013 2:52:21 PM
Boy’s missing cap nearly left his teacher unemployed from the rural schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 2:49:52 PM
Remembers the good times had with classmates at playing at recess.
3/26/2013 2:49:22 PM
Young man fell in love with the schoolteacher at his one-room school.
3/26/2013 2:47:15 PM
Schoolteacher at a rural schoolhouse remembers some of the cute things said by her students.
3/26/2013 2:45:45 PM
Child loved fun times had over recess.
3/26/2013 2:44:31 PM
Schoolteacher learned the lessons of life while teaching in a rural schoolhouse.
3/26/2013 2:42:00 PM
Teacher in one-room rural schoolhouse learned a lot.
3/26/2013 2:40:18 PM
Physical education came in the form of a walk to school and gymnastics in the barn.
3/26/2013 2:38:58 PM
During the days of the one-room school, a teacher’s biggest concern was a surprise visit from the superintendent.
3/26/2013 2:36:06 PM
Many years spent at a one-room schoolhouse, first as a student and then as a teacher.
3/25/2013 3:53:45 PM
Few personal effects brought on board, as family struggles to make passage to land of opportunity.
3/25/2013 3:43:30 PM
Family connections, grandfather’s farming skills help him make his way to Kansas in the land of opportunity.
3/25/2013 3:36:18 PM
Grandparents’ relatives did not come to land of opportunity as couple emigrated.
3/25/2013 3:30:38 PM
After hardships of the Second World War, Bavarian family leaves homeland to return to the United States.
3/25/2013 1:57:45 PM
A 50-year-old striped bass fishing record was broken in February.
3/25/2013 1:46:47 PM
One woman turns a Massachusetts neighborhood into an urban farm.
3/25/2013 12:09:26 PM
Descendents reap benefits after ancestors emigrated before The Civil War and endured hardships in the new land of opportunity.
3/25/2013 12:04:50 PM
Settling in the land of opportunity’s Midwest, grandparents farmed in Iowa and survived the Great Depression.
3/25/2013 12:00:49 PM
Their eldest son was already established in land of opportunity, and the rest of the family sold all their possessions to join him.
3/25/2013 11:59:58 AM
Small farmers are finding more than one road to organic certification.
3/25/2013 11:48:20 AM
Passage for emigrant was paid for in exchange for farm labor; man worked hard to become American.
3/25/2013 11:43:44 AM
After arriving in land of opportunity, stowaway travels through city after the devastation of the Chicago Fire.
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