Country images you don't see much anymore

On the trail....
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Ah Yes, Falcon!

Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" is a challenge because of those cascades of 1/32 notes!

"Bumble Boogie" is fun to play, although my left hand isn't perfect in Boogie execution.

"On the Trail" is from Grofe's "Grand Canyon" suite, and has that famously recognizable "clopping" rhythm.

"The Hall of the Mountain King", is a dramatic piece which suggests the foreboding of a creeping monster.

There are many others I ike that you probably do too!

HDH
 
Yes that is very interesting about the flour sacks. I never knew they came in pretty designs, like some of those in the link. Assumed all were tan or off white color.
 
debodun said:
Hex signs painted on barns - rare outside of Amish culture areas.
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That's interesting Deb. I grew up near some Amish farms. I remember seeing a few of those stars, but never knew what they were for. Thanks.
 
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Victory Gardens

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"With loved ones off at war, it greatly improved morale to have an outlet for the patriotism, fear, and anxiety that many Americans felt about the war. In 1942, about 5.5 million gardeners participated in the war garden effort, making seed package sales rise 300%. The USDA estimated over 20 million garden plots were planted with an estimated 9-10 million pounds of fruit and vegetables grown a year, 44 percent of the fresh vegetables in the United States. In 1943, American families bought 315,000 pressure cookers for canning vegetables up from 66,000 in 1942. ... Once the war ended, there was an overall decline in interest in gardening as life returned to normal in the US and the baby boomer era began. Many victory gardens were grown on loaned property, which needed to be returned in peacetime."

Community cannery, Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration). Canning beans and greens raised in a victory garden. It costs three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. June 1943.

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Aunt Bea said:
Great article, thanks!!!

I wonder how many hen pecked husbands got chewed out for buying the chicken feed in the bags with the wrong pattern or not getting an extra bag or two in the same pattern so the bags could be used for a new dress, problems of a different era LOL!!!
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When I was little, my mother used to make little dresses for me and my sister from chicken feed bags -- not the ones with advertising like above, but ones with pretty patterns. We would all go to the feed store together and my mom would tell dad which bags to buy so she would have enough material for dresses, and we got to pick out the prints.

Fond memories I hadn't thought about for years and years. Mom made very pretty little dresses for us out of those bags, and we loved them. There's one little dress I remember in detail to this day -- I loved that dress and was sad when I outgrew it and it went to my sister.
 
Butterfly said:
When I was little, my mother used to make little dresses for me and my sister from chicken feed bags -- not the ones with advertising like above, but ones with pretty patterns. We would all go to the feed store together and my mom would tell dad which bags to buy so she would have enough material for dresses, and we got to pick out the prints.

Fond memories I hadn't thought about for years and years. Mom made very pretty little dresses for us out of those bags, and we loved them. There's one little dress I remember in detail to this day -- I loved that dress and was sad when I outgrew it and it went to my sister.
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We never had the fancy printed ones but my grandmother used the plain heavy off white ones to make pillow ticks and dish towels. The old men always had one filled with chaf to make a pillow for the iron machinery seats or in the trucks that had old broken seat cushions. These days I see them at the antique shows, made into aprons and shopping bags similar to this one.

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Country farm auctions!

My father was always dragging home something.

Sometimes I think he bought things just to hear my mother sputter, she did a lot of sputtering while they were married!

I still enjoy listening to a good auctioneer and watching them work the crowd.

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