Category Archives: history
A Canadian Farmstead’s Baked Beans: Luscious Lesson
We can learn a lot from the way a family bakes its beans . . .
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged family, farm labor, farming, gramie sweetser, leisure, maine, primary sources
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OK, I’ll Do it Myself
For the past half century, Caroline Schimmel has collected narratives of women overcoming obstacles in the wilderness. Continue reading
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Tagged Agricultural History Society, archives, collections, frontier, wilderness
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The Langham Place Feminists and Women Farmers/Farming for Women
The Langham Place group thus challenged dominant conceptualisations of respectable femininity for rural womenthroughout the second half of the nineteenth-century Continue reading
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Tagged activism, farm labor, female farmers, feminism, politics
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