https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part3/ Johnny Cash (1932-2003) attracted myths like a big, square-shouldered magnet. It’s true that he was born in a clapped-out town in northeast Arkansas, that…
https://www.homestead.org/history/the-history-of-american-homesteading-part4/ Modern American homesteading, to misquote The Bard, makes strange bedfellows. Who can deny that communists, communalists, socialists, utopians, fundamentalists, survivalists, innovators, traditionalists, hermits, poets,…
Clearly, it was not the best day in Daniel Freeman's life. He'd been on the trail for over three weeks, and the weather had…
I admit, I am very pro-Thanksgiving. What's not to like? On what other holiday can we get together with family, spare a turkey life,…
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842) also known by her Objibwa name, which is translated as Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the…
There are still those who think he was a myth, which is not so surprising considering the many ways he has been depicted in…
"The Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic Demographic Transition, or Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering…
Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women bootleggers (moonshine smugglers) were not unheard of; in fact, there may have…
Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian mountaineers were, and are, an admirable people who developed a rich culture…
While the question of immigration is on the boil in America, and while the current season is one that should invoke charity, not disparity,…
People in my family have always been lovers of salt. That grainy white stuff in the shaker on the dinner table was the star…
“Animals make us Human.” ~ Temple Grandin I always felt different than my sisters. We were all born in a big city, yet I did…
A girl about the age of twelve, sporting a French beret, stands to the side with her face tilted, looking over the fields as…
March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that a homesteading woman should be celebrated. The woman I chose was arguably…
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910 a black American entrepreneur joined forces with a legendary spokesman for black innovation…
Mead: in the western world, the very word conjures images of warriors in leathers drinking from horns or human skulls. Despite this barbarous image,…
A Trip to Lehman's Store Jay Lehman had a dream. It was a modest dream. But the dream that started in a tiny community among…
It was 1879, and the Civil War had been over just nine years, a war that had devastated the Commonwealth of Virginia as perhaps no…
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley homestead project near Elkins, W.…
When I was a child, way back when, in the good old days, once upon a time… we did not get to eat a…
