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How to Thrive in Hard Times on the Homestead
One of my favorite recipes stays with me not for its overwhelming…
Seeking the Old Ways: Sources for Homesteading Knowledge
Once upon a time, everyone could find an elder, even if it…
The Tygart Valley Homesteads: Pioneers of the Great Depression
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House…
A Woman in No Man’s Land: Caroline Henderson, Homesteader
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee…
Matilda Jackson: Making a Home on the Last Frontier
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover…
Bamewawagezhikaquay: The most famous person you never heard of.
I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the…
Helen Nearing, Twentieth Century Pioneer
March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that…
The View from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House: A True Pioneer Woman
“The days of wilderness adventure are not past! The pioneer spirit is…
Music Carriers of the Southern Appalachians: Sharing History Through Song
If you’ve ever traveled through the southern Appalachian Mountains, you will immediately…
Dearfield: A Dream Lost to Drought and Depression
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910, a…