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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1976
Page
6
A light hometown column about Joan the farm editor who, despite a petless life, ends up adopting patio tomato plants. A friend gifts a dozen tomato seedlings. a soil spill in her car delays planting but promises a humorous, eventual harvest and a fulfillment of her joked farmer role.
A nostalgic reminiscence of a farm life with Grandpa's horses Babe and Doll, daily chores, barnyard adventures, and a Christmas wagon ride. It recalls milking by hand during drought, Easter escapades, walnut groves, Cunningham reunions, and family routines from childhood to young adulthood.
A collage of reminiscences recounts apricot canning with 40 quarts, trading eggs for sugar, and poultry wealth. It recalls rural summers milking cows at dawn, fieldwork by lantern light, and late 19th to mid 20th century farm routines in Iowa and nearby towns, including education, family tales, and lime kilns in Peoria.
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