Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Farmers/farming

The place I was raised up

Raised a big garden and we’d put it up. And he’d grow a cane patch and make molasses. And we had an orchard there.

Now if a widow’s left, why they draw a lot of welfare and stuff like that, but there wasn’t nothing like that then. She seen a hard time.

Christmas tree growers want maximum new growth to help develop tree shape and density. Fir cones are a detriment, and are removed regularly.

The scent of locust wood smoke and the sound of crackling fires permeated the early morning scene on hog butchering day.

Instead of bathing at the back porch pump of an evening, the farmer now adjourns to his porcelain bath tub.

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