Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
THE BIG ANTHILL AND OTHER SPECIAL PLACES When my brother, Gordon, and I were kids, often on a Sunday afternoon we would take a long walk back to a field near the woods on our farm and visit the “big anthill”. This ant hill…
The Industrialization of Small Family Farms after WW II In Iowa by Myrna Wood Picton, Ontario I was in Grade 11 when I detasseled corn and made $400. It was in the early Fifties when the hybrid corn industry hit my…
CHRISTMAS AT OUR HOME I think our dogs probably enjoyed Christmas as much as we did back in the early 1960s. They seemed to know they had gifts under the tree, and would visit the tree daily to investigate if anything else had arrived…
MORE MEMORIES OF SS#14 SOPHIASBURGH I was behind a stopped school bus recently, and I couldn’t help but notice that it was only after the bus had completely stopped and activated its lights, did the kids leave the doorstep, walk the long driveway to…
MEMORIES OF SS#14 The year was 1956, and the entire school – all 13 of us – wondered what our new teacher would be like. Little did I know when she walked into the classroom of that one room school, not far from where…
BURNIN’ UP THE DANCE FLOOR I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up in the era of ‘57 Chevs, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, white bucks, blue suede shoes and duck-tail haircuts. The dance back then was the jive and at the age of…
I REMEMBER WHEN…… – the cats eating out of old enamel pie plates. They were left outside and if they were full of water the next morning, then we had a good rain overnight. “Rained last night,” “How much?” “About an inch – the…
SPRING PLANTING“Ter-r-r-y. Time to get up! Got a lot of work to do today.” Even though my alarm ensured I was always awake when he called, I would lie there and wait for his call from the bottom of the stairs. Although still dark,…