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…
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,…
My life has changed drastically since choosing this rural life. When I lived in the Boston area, I would…
"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: Dear, dear Mrs. Coney,— Well, I have filed on my land and am now…
"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: September 11, 1909 Dear Mrs. Coney,— This has been for me the busiest, happiest…
Elinore P. Stewart's "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: September 28, 1909. Dear Mrs. Coney,— Your second card just reached…
"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: November 22, 1909 My dear Friend,— I was dreadfully afraid that my last letter…
"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: November 22, 1909 Dear Mrs. Coney,— ... I think every one enjoyed our Thanksgiving…
Elinore P. Stewart’s "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: December 28, 1909 Dear Mrs. Coney,— Our Thanksgiving affair was the…
Elinore P. Stewart’s "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: [December, 1909] Dear Mrs. Coney,— My happy Christmas resulted from the…
Elinore P. Stewart’s "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: April 5, 1910 Dear Mrs. Coney,— I find upon re-reading your…
Elinore P. Stewart’s "Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: August 15, 1910 Dear Mrs. Coney,— ... Grandma Edmonson's birthday is…