Television: Do we really need it?
Let me preface this column by saying I most definitely could happily live far away from the world without a television. It is incomprehensible...
Sometimes good to be reminded of the power of Mother Nature
Once in a while, it is good to be reminded of the power of Mother Nature. Our daughter and friends were here one evening...
Barns can be perfect setting for love
The old barns that have stood the test of time seem perfectly placed on the farm, with much thought given before even a single...
Part VI: Hardships make people stronger
The 1920s to the early ‘40s were good years for Charlie and Anna Myers. They had finally found the farm that they would call...
Farm life was hard, but joy-filled
Part V
"A man is entitled to one good dog and one good woman in his life," Charlie was known to say.
After pausing, he then...
Making the best of a rough decision
(Part Four)As members of what was known as the Eckley community in the 1920s, the energetic couple farming the old Schuck farm was known...
Part IV: Caring often meant family separation
“It sure beat starving,” Charlie would often say of the many ‘room and board’ deals he struck for himself and his brothers over the years of their hard-scrabble childhood.
Part III: The goal is to keep the family together
Part III
Charlie was only 12 when his life changed dramatically. He recalled years later the somber train ride from the city he had called...
Judith Sutherland: Young man persists, despite hardships
Sometimes the most impressive lives bear unspeakable sorrow but the story is told with a glow of perseverance, or simply never told at all.
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Judith Sutherland: Papa was a farmer
"She would gather the eggs in her apron, studying each one, deciding whether this one was a keeper egg or one she would take...
