Focusing on the History of Agricultural Education and Rural America
Last week’s Friday Footnote used a Wordle like approach to establish the idea that agriculture teachers in the past were RESILIENT and still are today. As we embrace a new school year, we must continue to be resilient, but we also must have Continue reading Agriculture Teachers Have a □□□□□ (8/12/2022)
A trending online word game is Wordle. In this game one tries to guess, in as few guesses as possible, a secret word. Each time you guess, the computer lets you know if each letter you typed is in the secret Continue reading Agriculture Teachers are □□□□□□□□□ (8/5/2022)
If you are an FFA nerd, you may recognize the name Stevenson Ching. In early May I started writing this Footnote to recognize Stevenson in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. I also started researching the agricultural Continue reading Who is Stevenson Ching (7/1/2022)
For the past several weeks the Friday Footnotes focused on Japanese internment centers during World War II. We have investigated the establishment of these camps, looked at agricultural education and Future Farmer chapters in the camps, recognized a special Japanese military unit on Memorial Day, examined Continue reading A Raw Deal (Part 6) – Making it Real (6/24/2022)
This is the opening paragraph in the first Footnote in this series that started over a month ago: How would you like to own a thriving farm, have a crop soon to be harvested but the government comes in, forces you to Continue reading A Raw Deal (Part 5) – When Junichiro Comes Marching Home (6/17/22)