Small towns had stores called, “Grocery Stores,” that sold more than food. We had two stores in my village named after the founder, Philip “Gordon.” Both stores sold food, and they catered to farmers with harness, fly nets, milk buckets, and all the things the local farmers needed. The store at the south end...
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When I went to this school, it was exactly the same as it was when the kids went to school there in 1917 or any year since it was a new brick building.
Nothing ever changed—the same building with the same old stove inside, and the same outside toilets for the girls and boys. The...
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This is a story about the past and those days when farms were alive with animals and boys and dogs. It is the time of fence rows when fields with cows and horses were separated from fields of oats and corn by fences made of wire or wood or something called, “fence rows.” When...
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