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cartoon man flailing in water with crutch

Father went to the county seat and bid in a pauper

The county had no poor farm those days; county officials let paupers out to live at homes of whoever of responsibility made the lowest bid.

New Bern, NC Forest History Society warehouse, 1938

December 27, 2018 Family life / Forestry / North Carolina

I’d trust a mountain man before I would a city man any day

The [North Carolina Forest Service] offered me a job then, late that summer or early that fall. I went to work, I had a fancy title: in charge of visual education.

November 13, 2018 Child rearing / Family life / North Carolina

Bastardy Bonds

The NC colony, starting in 1736, used bastardy bonds to protect the Crown from being responsible for supporting children born out of wedlock.

August 28, 2018 Baptists / Family life / Kentucky

To understand the Parkers you have to understand their Church

The Parkers of Lawrence and Pike County Kentucky grew with a community obligated to raise up their children in the “good old fashioned way.”

February 27, 2018 Family life / Ohio

A town once meant as many things as there were people in it

All the sounds, sights & smells you picked up along the way, piece by piece, some you wanted to save, some you’d just as soon forget.

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