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- From: "Jeffery Blake" <echoecho AT bedford.heartland.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Zambia Re: One-upmanship
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 13:23:38 -0500
I'm only 33 and grew up in middle America. I don't
remember Kennedy. But we were poor and from a long line of backwoods type
people. We ate mostly from the garden and the barn and the woods.
Mom canned vegetables all summer long. We stored rows
and rows of quart jars of corn, beans, peas, tomatos and other vegetables in the
storm cellar. I rember digging big burlap 'gunney' sacks full of potatoes
and onion.
We ususally butchered a cow one year and a hog the next.
Dad cut them up on the kitchen table and ground all the hamburg and ground pork
on a hand crank meat grinder.
During some lean years in the early seventies we couldn't
afford to butcher. Dad ran a trap line and we ate deer, squirrel and
pheasant almost exclusively.
Mom picked raspberries and eldererries inthe summer and made
jam.
Me and my brother used to take a bath in the sink or a wash
tub. I remember during warm summer rains taking showers under the eave
spouts.
We only had an outhouse until I was 10. Everyone in the
family remebered sayings and jokes they had heard and wrote them on the outhouse
walls with a stub of a pencil we kept there.
We had a succesion of used black and white TV's until about
1980 when we got a new color TV. We live far from any broadcast
stations. So reception was poor though and we didn't watch that much
TV.
We had a party line phone and the neighbors all had a habit of
listen to everyones converstations. I still had a party line phone after I
got married in 1990 when they put in the last of the private lines around here.
We milked Holsteins and the milk truck would come pick up our
milk which we stored in the old cream cans in a water cooler.
I imagine a lot of people would have looked down their noses
at us, but I've lived in the city for much of my adult life and couldn't wait to
get back to the backwards, rural life I knew as a kid.
Today I'm on the farm--pretty darn poor--I do without a lot of
things--work pretty hard, and am happier than I have ever been.
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Zambia Re: One-upmanship,
Mmneedham, 07/07/2001
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- Re: Zambia Re: One-upmanship, Jeffery Blake, 07/07/2001
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