Tag: farming

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

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…

News - from the past & the present

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…

Days Gone By - stories from the past

Have you ever eaten Bitterweed Butter?

January 8, 2020 November 12, 2019by Dorothy Graham Gast

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