Great article...so great, I would like to use the history part with my garden club for the horticulture lesson. I am always looking for new ideas and what a neat lesson for the first part of Nov...favorite fall flowers! I guess I never thought about where they started. You have triggered my mind!
Thanks also for all the memories you pulled out of my head from growing up in the country with no playmates. My sister, who was born six years after me, does not have the recollection of all these unique experiences like farming with horses, neighbors helping each other with the harvest, milking cows by hand, separating the cream from the milk, butchering all our meat, getting water piped to the house and heating it on a wood stove, and even using an outhouse. Funny how these things are not fully appreciated until we get older. Thanks!
