Focusing on the History of Agricultural Education and Rural America
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and are enjoying Black Friday. As Americans, we have so much to be thankful for but may not really be aware of how fortunate we are. That point was driven home to me Continue reading Thanksgiving Thoughts (11/29/2019)
“But what are we doing for the farm girls?” That was the question posed by Miss Marie Cromer, a country schoolteacher from Aiken county, at the South Carolina School Improvement Association Conference in December of 1909. O. B. Martin from the Continue reading Girls’ Tomato and Canning Clubs (11/22/2019)
W. B. Otwell was not happy! In 1898 he was the secretary for the Macoupin County (Illinois) Farmers’ Institute. The February meeting of the Institute had been advertised in 13 county newspapers but only the officers and the chaplain showed Continue reading Boys’ Corn Clubs (11/15/2019)
In the 1962 musical “The Music Man” (which is set in River City, Iowa in 1912) Harold Hill tries to convince the citizens of River City they have trouble. The “trouble” he has identified is the presence of a pool table Continue reading Farmers’ Institutes (11/8/2019)
This is the time of the year that many states have state fairs. About 125 years ago it was common to also have world fairs. Agricultural exhibits were often a part of the World Fairs. In this Friday Footnote, our Continue reading The White City (11/1/2019)