These are topics that come to mind as I work on this blog. I’ll update it from time-to-time when I add new content (at the top). Headers here link to posts related to these comments.
Migrant Farmers
I found some nice videos about old-time farming — combines in particular — on YouTube. [Palouse, Washington in the mid-1940s – YouTube | To Till a Field: Man and Machine in the Palouse – YouTube]
Learning to read
I went to grade school in the same one-room schoolhouse that dad did. He told me about a practical joke that some of the older students played on a teacher. The teacher rode a motorcycle to work (they were popular in the early part of the 1900s). His motorcycle had a big leather seat with ventilation holes. You stood up while starting it by using the kick starter. A wire from a spark plug passed up through one of those holes provided an electric surprise when he sat down to ride away.
4. AK, BC & YT — Dawson City
I stumbled across a couple of wonderful videos about the Klondike Stampede and the prospectors who went there. My journey was a small shadow compared to their’s, but it left me with a similar pinnacle feeling of adventure. The Palace Grand Theatre is where I went to see the Klondike Follies. [PBS video: The Klondike Gold Rush] [PBS webpage/video: Palace Grand Theatre]
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