Who can resist the spicy, sweet smell of freshly baked gingerbread, especially during the holidays? There is something about that smell and the memories it…
A couple weeks ago I was vacationing in the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Parks that adjoin in western Arizona. The views were…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or timid. The trip to…
Peboan and Seegwun is a Chippewa allegory. This is another example of one of Jane Schoolcraft's translated stories that found it's way into Longfellow's…
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate of Mount Holyoke College in Iowa,…
Watch any old movie about rural life, cow towns, farming, or homesteading, and you are bound to see at least one episode taking place…
Captain John Smith told the English colonists under his sway “he who shall not work shall not eat.” It was a Biblical injunction, stated…
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part1/ From the earliest days in the new united states, living involved networking. As we’ve already seen in Part One, if you build a…
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part2/ "Come along, come along, make no delay, Come from every nation, come from every way, Our lands they are broad enough, have no alarm…
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…
