Biography for Orie.
In his “Homeplace History,” One Munch (1902-98) describes the essence of growing up in Fort Valley in the early twentieth century so beautifully that it would be a mistake not to include a few excerpts:
There were always chores to do like take and bring the horses and cows, feed the chickens, hogs and calves We had hoes to use, weeds to pull, corn to thin, apples to gather and berries to pick. We used cross cut saws to saw all the firewood.
The men were never idle or empty handed and were seldom seen without a
gun, axe, pitchfork, hoe, slop bucket or lantern or without a coat of mud, dust, whiskers, hay chaff or horse hair. . . . They never wasted a nail, button or string.
...We dropped all the corn by hand, adding some beans and pumpkin seeds. We dropped grains to a hill and were cautioned not to leave a grain uncovered as it would just bait the crows. We were told to drop just 5 as one was for a cut worm, one for a crow, one for a blackbird, and two to grow.
In his “Homeplace History,” One Munch (1902-98) describes the essence of growing up in Fort Valley in the early twentieth century so beautifully that it would be a mistake not to include a few excerpts:
There were always chores to do like take and bring the horses and cows, feed the chickens, hogs and calves We had hoes to use, weeds to pull, corn to thin, apples to gather and berries to pick. We used cross cut saws to saw all the firewood.
The men were never idle or empty handed and were seldom seen without a
gun, axe, pitchfork, hoe, slop bucket or lantern or without a coat of mud, dust, whiskers, hay chaff or horse hair. . . . They never wasted a nail, button or string.
...We dropped all the corn by hand, adding some beans and pumpkin seeds. We dropped grains to a hill and were cautioned not to leave a grain uncovered as it would just bait the crows. We were told to drop just 5 as one was for a cut worm, one for a crow, one for a blackbird, and two to grow.
Biography for Orie.
In his “Homeplace History,” One Munch (1902-98) describes the essence of growing up in Fort Valley in the early twentieth century so beautifully that it would be a mistake not to include a few excerpts:
There were always chores to do like take and bring the horses and cows, feed the chickens, hogs and calves We had hoes to use, weeds to pull, corn to thin, apples to gather and berries to pick. We used cross cut saws to saw all the firewood.
The men were never idle or empty handed and were seldom seen without a
gun, axe, pitchfork, hoe, slop bucket or lantern or without a coat of mud, dust, whiskers, hay chaff or horse hair. . . . They never wasted a nail, button or string.
...We dropped all the corn by hand, adding some beans and pumpkin seeds. We dropped grains to a hill and were cautioned not to leave a grain uncovered as it would just bait the crows. We were told to drop just 5 as one was for a cut worm, one for a crow, one for a blackbird, and two to grow.
In his “Homeplace History,” One Munch (1902-98) describes the essence of growing up in Fort Valley in the early twentieth century so beautifully that it would be a mistake not to include a few excerpts:
There were always chores to do like take and bring the horses and cows, feed the chickens, hogs and calves We had hoes to use, weeds to pull, corn to thin, apples to gather and berries to pick. We used cross cut saws to saw all the firewood.
The men were never idle or empty handed and were seldom seen without a
gun, axe, pitchfork, hoe, slop bucket or lantern or without a coat of mud, dust, whiskers, hay chaff or horse hair. . . . They never wasted a nail, button or string.
...We dropped all the corn by hand, adding some beans and pumpkin seeds. We dropped grains to a hill and were cautioned not to leave a grain uncovered as it would just bait the crows. We were told to drop just 5 as one was for a cut worm, one for a crow, one for a blackbird, and two to grow.
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