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2/22/2012 9:00:27 AM
Missouri woman shares depression era advice and frugal recipes she used to feed her family and make necessary goods
2/22/2012 8:54:26 AM
Colorado woman shares a family cake recipe from the depression era
2/21/2012 12:29:23 PM
The long-running festival celebrates the history of the First State, Delaware, with sea chanteys, parades, artisans in period costume, maypole dancing, and more.
2/20/2012 2:48:40 PM
The Clueless Farmer and her husband discover the abundance that comes with a commitment to frugal living, and why gourmet coffeehouse drinks are no substitute for a rich life.
2/20/2012 1:40:33 PM
Tinseltown prepares to party down as nervous nominees work on their acceptance speeches.
2/20/2012 10:41:54 AM
Illinois woman remembers her mother's bean soup that sustained their family through the depression era
2/20/2012 10:35:15 AM
Missouri woman recalls three frugal recipes that were used often in her community during the depression era
2/20/2012 10:28:33 AM
Iowan recalls with fondness the filling, delicious country breakfast that her parents managed to provide, even during the lean times of the depression era
2/20/2012 10:22:53 AM
Missouri woman recalls how nothing was wasted during the depression era, not even spilled molasses
2/20/2012 10:15:29 AM
School lunch tasted better and D.A.R.E was unnecessary during the depression era, says an Illinois man
2/20/2012 10:07:22 AM
Missouri woman recalls how neighbors and local businesses formed a strong community during the depression era, assisting one another for 'no charge'
2/20/2012 9:54:29 AM
The wedding gifts that one Nebraskan woman received saw her family through the lean times of the depression era
2/20/2012 9:45:41 AM
Nebraskan remembers forgoing costly modern conveniences during the Depression Era in favor of earlier, cheaper ways of doing things, such as using kerosene lamps instead of electric bulbs
2/20/2012 9:19:15 AM
Oklahoma woman recalls her mother buying and using a depression glass plate during the depression era
2/20/2012 9:10:45 AM
Illinois man discusses the fluctuations in commodity prices that impoverished many farmers during the Depression Era
2/20/2012 9:01:20 AM
Californian recalls his Kansas childhood during the depression era, and how self-sufficiency reemerged as a necessary value on the farm
2/16/2012 12:41:31 PM
After 40 years away from the farm I grew up on, I returned to find my Farm Girl roots and my true home.
2/16/2012 9:58:38 AM
The editorial written for GRIT's first-ever issue of GRIT Country, a PDF-form electronic issue that we'll publish about halfway between print editions of GRIT. Sign up for our newsletter to make sure you receive the first issue.
2/15/2012 4:27:19 PM
IHOP serves free pancakes to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. 
2/15/2012 1:25:29 PM
Arizona woman recalls road trips to her grandma and grandpa's family farm in Missouri during the Dust Bowl
2/15/2012 1:16:34 PM
Alabama man remembers eating homemade corn bread and smoked pork on his grandparents' family farm
2/15/2012 1:06:22 PM
Missouri woman recounts summers spent playing in a little creek and picking black raspberries on her family farm
2/15/2012 11:54:32 AM
Missouri woman recalls her grandparents making the trip from the family farm to the nearest town in a hack pulled by a team of horses
2/15/2012 11:48:11 AM
A New Jersey woman recalls the delightful sound of baby chicks on her grandparents' family farm in Eastern Kansas
2/15/2012 11:38:35 AM
An Illinois woman tells her grandaughter a story about her own grandmother and her family farm
2/15/2012 11:32:48 AM
Nebraskan recalls visiting her aunt and uncle's family farm, and sharing a delicious meal
2/15/2012 11:27:54 AM
Oklahoma mother shares her young daughter's written account of spending the day with Grandma and Grandpa on their family farm
2/15/2012 11:20:28 AM
North Carolina woman recalls experiencing southern hospitality while visiting cousins on their family farm in Roanoke, Virginia
2/15/2012 10:27:07 AM
New York woman recalls delicious, simple breakfast made by her grandparents on their family farm
2/15/2012 10:19:06 AM
An Iowan talks about the ways in which the wood cookstove was used on her family farm
2/15/2012 10:06:52 AM
An Iowan recalls traditional Christmas pranks during her childhood on the family farm
2/15/2012 9:55:47 AM
An Oregonian recalls her childhood memories of heating systems on her family farm, including wood-burning stoves
2/15/2012 9:49:42 AM
An Iowa man remembers walking to a country school from his family farm and picking flowers
2/15/2012 9:45:08 AM
A Missourian remembers her fiddle-playing father, musically-talented mother, and Christmas on their family farm
2/15/2012 9:34:05 AM
An Oregonian recalls attending Sunday School in a one-room schoolhouse while growing up on her family farm
2/15/2012 9:29:03 AM
Iowan talks about decorating the Christmas tree on her family farm with homemade ornaments
2/15/2012 9:22:03 AM
Illinois woman recalls spending vacation running amok over the rolling hills of her grandpa's family farm
2/15/2012 9:14:34 AM
Iowan recalls the average farmer's daily activities on his family farm
2/15/2012 9:09:20 AM
A Californian recalls Sunday dinner in her youth at her grandparents' family farm
2/15/2012 9:01:39 AM
An Alabama man recalls playing as a boy in the hay barn on his family farm
2/15/2012 8:55:21 AM
Nebraskan remembers her childhood on her family farm: her grandparents' old homestead
2/15/2012 8:47:00 AM
Missouri woman talks about how her parents built their own family farm while running a barber shop in a country village
2/14/2012 3:11:27 PM
Do you know anyone who does not make mistakes? Would you believe anyone who said they don't? Being honest is the best way to insure trust.
2/13/2012 2:18:41 PM
An Iowan talks about the role of neighbors and friends in her family farm's rural community as she was growing up
2/13/2012 2:11:12 PM
A Tennessee man writes about the establishment of his family farm in Soddy Daisy during the Great Depression
2/13/2012 2:01:21 PM
Nebraska woman recalls the simple pleasure of eating homemade vegetable soup cooked on a wood stove with her mother and brother on their family farm
2/13/2012 1:51:33 PM
Illinois woman talks about the miraculous recovery of Blackberry, queen heifer on her family farm
2/13/2012 1:34:49 PM
A woman tells the story of two little girls, who, bored, decided to play dress up with some little pigs
2/13/2012 1:26:34 PM
Selling baby "Easter bunnies" allowed an Iowa woman to buy some candy eggs for local children's Easter egg hunt
2/13/2012 1:20:09 PM
A Missourian tells how her family dog, Pandy, saved her baby brother from a mean old rooster on their family farm
2/13/2012 1:15:20 PM
A Missouri woman recalls how her mother raised a pet bull calf that was orphaned in a storm on their family farm
2/13/2012 1:10:06 PM
A woman shares her good memories about growing up with a pair of young goats
2/13/2012 12:27:30 PM
An Iowan tells a story about a lesson she learned while raising geese for college money
2/13/2012 12:21:26 PM
An Oregon woman tells the story of how Mother Hen, one of her Leghorn chickens, raised a clutch of orphaned ducklings
2/13/2012 12:15:07 PM
Colorado woman recalls taking care of milk cows and a heifer on her family farm
2/13/2012 12:07:53 PM
Iowa woman recalls her two favorite farm animals while she was growing up on her family farm
2/13/2012 12:07:47 PM
A sampling of the ups and downs of life in the country. The highs and lows of the rural living adventure.
2/13/2012 12:00:54 PM
An Iowan shares her memories of cats and dogs and some unintentional pets made of baby skunks
2/13/2012 11:55:32 AM
Missourian recalls his first horse, a bay mare, purchased at a farm sale
2/13/2012 11:51:00 AM
Oregon woman recalls caring for two baby rabbits during her childhood on her family farm
2/13/2012 11:44:21 AM
Granddaughter remembers the story of how her grandfather started their family farm in the late 1800s
2/13/2012 11:36:46 AM
A woman recounts the tale of her father building a Kansas homestead, and keeping their family farm alive during the drought and dust in the 1930s
2/13/2012 11:28:07 AM
A letter to a cousin from the family farm details the day's events, including getting caught in a dust storm
2/13/2012 11:22:15 AM
Oregon native recalls her first dust storm on the family farm
2/13/2012 11:15:54 AM
A Nebraska woman shares her brief reminisce about hard times on her family farm
2/13/2012 10:52:55 AM
An Oregonian recalls growing up on his family farm, planting and harvesting around the sometimes capricous midwest weather
2/13/2012 10:39:01 AM
A Nebraska woman recalls the swarms of grasshoppers that came up out of the south in the 1930s
2/13/2012 10:29:41 AM
An Illinois woman recalls her wood cookstove and other cherished conveniences on her family farm
2/13/2012 10:21:47 AM
A Tennessee woman recalls the chore of churning butter as a girl
2/13/2012 10:15:36 AM
Maintaining the family farm was a way of life for this Iowan
2/13/2012 10:05:32 AM
A Michigan woman briefly recounts a morning on her family farm, splitting wood with a wood splitter
2/13/2012 9:59:08 AM
Kansas woman recalls her parents milking their Jersey cow and using a cold-water milk separator
2/13/2012 9:52:25 AM
A Kansas woman recalls the community shared by her and her nearest neighbors "as the crow flies" on her family farm
2/13/2012 9:46:28 AM
A Missouri woman recalls making molasses from sugar cane as a cash crop for her family farm
2/13/2012 9:41:57 AM
New York woman recalls the farm chores that had to be done while growing up on her family farm
2/13/2012 9:34:55 AM
An Iowa woman talks about topping onions as a child while living on her family farm, and surviving the Great Depression
2/13/2012 9:28:30 AM
Kansas woman recalls being a farmhand on the family farm, raking hay, cultivating corn, and taking care of mules and cattle
2/13/2012 9:22:57 AM
A Missouri woman discusses the way that threshing and harvesting grain was done in the late 1930s
2/13/2012 9:17:19 AM
Iowa granddaughter remembers her mother helping her grandfather during harvest time on the family farm
2/13/2012 9:12:25 AM
An Iowa woman remembers her mother preparing meals on the family farm using a wood-burning stove, and recounts what it was like to live without electricity
2/13/2012 9:01:56 AM
A Missouri woman recalls driving a Ford Tractor as a child during the war years to help her father harvest on the family farm
2/13/2012 8:41:22 AM
Illinois resident shares his fond memories of rural America during the Great Depression, describing his childhood on the family farm
2/9/2012 5:04:11 PM
New York man describes his experiences as a farm hand on a family farm in Vermont
2/9/2012 4:57:22 PM
A Missouri woman remembers hay baling by old-time methods on her family farm
2/9/2012 4:50:40 PM
An Arizona woman recalls growing up in Chicago, and how wonderful her grandfather's potted lemon tree smelled on their small family farm
2/9/2012 4:42:07 PM
Illinois woman recalls the goings-on during threshing time at her family farm
2/9/2012 4:35:21 PM
A New York woman recalls haying during World War II with a modified Federal truck and a buck rake
2/9/2012 4:30:22 PM
An Illinois man recalls harvest-time on his family farm, including his father's oil-pull tractor, binder and hay wagons
2/9/2012 4:13:47 PM
Arizona woman talks about growing up on her family farm; remembering her chores, entertainments, and life lessons
2/9/2012 4:04:18 PM
An Iowa man talks about his memories of playing in his grandfather's farm shop on his family farm
2/9/2012 3:56:49 PM
Nebraska woman remembers how hired hands on her family farm played a part in her childhood, as well as her parents' harvest
2/9/2012 3:49:02 PM
An Iowa woman recalls threshing time on her family farm, and the flurry of activity that surrounded it
2/9/2012 3:43:33 PM
An Iowa woman recalls the threshing bees of her youth, held during harvest time on her family farm and others nearby
2/9/2012 3:36:19 PM
Sugar beets are, and have been, an important cash crop on the family farm for decades.  A Michigan woman talks about the process of cultivating sugar beets.
2/9/2012 3:29:17 PM
A woman recalls growing up on a Wisconsin farmstead without electricity during the Great Depression
2/9/2012 3:21:06 PM
An Iowa woman recalls her childhood farm chores on her family farm, including carrying water to the kitchen
2/9/2012 3:14:22 PM
Picking Gooseberries was a regular summer activity for one Missouri woman while growing up on her family farm
2/9/2012 3:07:54 PM
Milking cows was a memorable farm chore for one Missouri woman
2/9/2012 3:01:31 PM
Iowa woman talks about her role in producing home grown meat and vegetables for her family farm
2/9/2012 2:55:13 PM
Kansas woman recalls how a big garden provided food, fun, and fodder on her family farm
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