Old Black N White Photos

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    American kids in coal mines,
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    White sharecroppers, 'Grapes of Wrath'.

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    One of my aunts had a shack like this.
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    Grand Central Station 1934

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    Rush Hour Chicago about 1918

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    Paris 1945 - Women with baguette and wine.

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    My dad, in the late 1940's.


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    What is the tool he is using a saw?
     
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    Yes, it's a gasoline powered saw. Looks lethal, doesn't it? :D
     
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    It sure does I wouldn't want to be in front of it.
    At first I thought it was some kind of a disc to make a furrow.
    Your dad looks like a real hard worker such an interesting photo.
     
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    Indeed he was a hard worker; a dirt farmer in south Georgia. A lot of farm implements back in that time were extremely dangerous. That old building behind him was my grandparent's first house; it had no indoor plumbing and by the time I was born it was used for storage. It was called "The Old House."
     
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    The photo shows me the backbone of America, all my adult life I've wanted a farm. I thought I could make it Off the Grid, I had planned how to grow & store my own food using my livestock manure as fertilizer. I did that somewhat where I am now using chickens to clean an area and fertilized for next year's plants.
    I read a book called Grow It that had a lot of information on how to run a self-sufficient Farm.
     
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