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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Random thoughts about the day, now tote sleds
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:13:43 -0500



Gene GeRue wrote:


We Wisconsin boys know about stone boats. One of my first big-money jobs was picking stones for a neighbor. Five bucks a day.



That must have been the going rate. Tj's scout leader, who was about your age, recalled that he, too, picked stones for $5/day. Practically all the building stones used in this county and probably neighboring counties were resourced from my area...Rock Creek..
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race"

~ Calvin Coolidge




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