Focusing on the History of Agricultural Education and Rural America
Since February is the month in which National FFA Week is celebrated we will start the celebration early. Each of the Friday Footnotes in February will be FFA related. I typically receive about one inquiry a week about the FFA Continue reading The FFA Eagle Award (2/3/2023)
The Fall/Winter 2022 FFA New Horizons magazine cover proclaimed “1952 – Celebrating 70 years of FFA New Horizons – 2022.” The editorial on the inside cover (Riebel, 2022, p. 2) stated “What began as a motion during a National FFA Board of Continue reading Persistence Pays (1/27/2023)
During the opening ceremony of a FFA meeting the vice-president states that he or she is stationed at the plow – a symbol of labor and tillage of the soil. However, in Tennessee there is another meaning of PLOW for Continue reading PLOW (1/20/2023)
In an article in the December 1954 issue of The Agricultural Education Magazine titled “Fiction for Future Famers,” Henry Brunner at Penn State listed 100 works of fiction that school librarians and experienced agriculture teachers recommended for FFA members. There are Continue reading Louis Bromfield & The New Agriculture (1/13/2023)
While there are not a lot of novels written about agricultural education there is a unique trilogy of three novels that build on each previous novel. They are: Tom of Peace Valley – written in 1925 Moon Valley – written Continue reading The Agricultural Education Trilogy (1/6/2023)