Tag: farming

AUTHOR SUNDAY – Have you ever eaten Bitterweed Butter?

This is a cute story that many who lived on a farm can relate to. Bitterweed Butter by Dorothy Graham Gast When I was…

AUTHOR SUNDAY – Just reading about this makes me tired – tobacco farming was hard work!

August 11, 2021 September 25, 2021by Sam Perkins

Tobacco farming was hard work by Sam Perkins My father grew burley tobacco in Middle Tennessee for forty continuous years. I was a participant…

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PATRON + The Wayside Cottage – what life was like for a sharecropper in Lowndes Co. in 1935

April 7, 2021 April 17, 2021by Donna R Causey

This unedited story has been transcribed from WPA (Works Project Administration) stories on Lowndes County from 1935. THE WAYSIDE COTTAGE Mr. & Mrs. C.…

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PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS: Mules were valuable to many Alabama farmers – here is why

October 19, 2020 July 7, 2020by Donna R Causey

ON THE USE OF MULES (From an old newspaper abstract) Mules, on a general average, live more than twice as long as horses. They…

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Anne Newport Royall – reports in a letter from 1821 of snakes that fly apart and plants that close their leaves

July 17, 2020 May 31, 2020by Donna R Causey

In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her…