Food Studies
Home Economics Extension Bulletins: Science to Alleviate Rural Women’s Drudgery
Home economics extension bulletins would now allow rural women to improve their homes through science
New Books
Reflections on Sources and the Publication of My First Book
It is my sincerest desire that what I learned about women’s involvement in agricultural fairs is clearly conveyed to and appreciated by those who read my book.
Uncategorized
Gender and Rural History: A Roundtable
What is the meaning, place and role of gender in both the rural past and the rural historiography? #ruralwomen #twitterstorians #aghist
New Books
“If you can’t quit cryin’ you can’t come here no more”
Growing up, the women around me did a lot of talking, but no one heard them.
Food Studies
A Countess Rural Brewer
The Countess Brewer brought pneumatic malting technology to rural Ukraine.
suffrage
Suffrage at the Kitchen Table
[E]ven though the kitchen was seen as women’s domain, a married woman did not actually own her own kitchen table. Nor did she have the right to profit off of the work she did at it.
history
Diaries of August 1920: “More to life than the daily grind”
[D]espite the pressures of harvest, August allowed the Sweetser family time for their favorite summer activities: Chautauqua, picnics, and lake excursions.
research
A WORK IN PROGRESS: FINDING MYSELF THROUGH EXTENSION
I saw something of their lives in mine. I saw something of their origins in mine. Thus began my path as a historian.
Uncategorized
Gramie Sweetser Drove a REO: diaries of an Aroostook County, Maine, farm wife, 1920-1956
I physically experience farm life in the context of the research I conduct, and I often reflect on the lives of women in this same place when it was in its ascendancy.
Food Studies
Ginger Farm and its Butter Tart
What is, or was, Ginger Farm? And wherefore its butter tart?