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Country Today

Location

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Mar 09, 1983

Page

23

Making Do: A Chippewa Reflection on Economic Hardship

A fragmented excerpt notes that the phrase making do echoed from the 1890s Populist era with Mary Ellen Lease, through the 1930s agricultural crisis, and suggests a continuity of farm profit loss and hardship in the nation, tying the idea to the Chippewa context.

Mary Ellen Lease

Wood county scholarship for high school senior named

The Wood County Extension Homemakers offer a $200 scholarship for a Wood County high school senior pursuing home economics in college or tech school. Applications mailed to schools. completed forms due May 1 to Donna Luecht, UW-Extension, Courthouse, Wisconsin Rapids 54494. Valley Museum hosts an exhibit on responses to shortages in the 1890s, 1930s, and 1980s, with curator Rosemary Bloedorn detailing creative adaptations across eras. Admission to the exhibit is free with donations welcome. museum hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.

The Wood County Donna Luecht Uw-Extension Home Economist Courthouse Market St Wisconsin Rapids

Pierce County Spring Fling Cakes and Flowers Event

The Pierce County extension homemakers host Spring Fling at Ellsworth Junior High on March 12 from 10 30 a m to 2 p m. The event features Springtime Cakes With Flair with a neon salad bar and cake buffet for 2 and demonstrations on violets potpourri scents and cake decorating. Pre registered cakes and frostings appear in a recipe booklet. entries are accepted via call to Bernice Hildebrandt at 262-5498.

Pierce County Pierce County Extension Ellsworth Junior High School Irene Fiedler Prescott Deloris Dookins River Falls Linda Huppert Ellsworth Bernice Hildebrandt

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