Stories - Volume 1

by Gertrude

The stories below were posted to the old website in 2011-2012. Not in chronological (or any other) order.

3:04

Getting Gravel and Marl with the Wagon
10:24

Threshing
2:55

Planting the Poplar Tree
2:42

What the Farm Looked Like & the End of the Logging Era
4:00

Describing the Farm and Its Animals
7:06

Picking and Canning Wild Fruit
4:46

Milk Machines and Tractors
2:16

Long Tom Lutke
3:26

A History of Family Farm & Her Parents Married in the Living Room
3:49

Games & Homemade Ice Cream
2:01

Preparing Meals and Other Chores
5:10

The Airplane, the Doctor, the Telephone, & Hattie is a Midwife
2:30

Hattie's Courtship
4:04

Fire on the Nederhoed Farm
2:32

Who is Your Neighbor? How Kids Learned
1:30

Corn Roast
9:00

Meeting Tony - Courtship
3:05

Meeting Tony - Getting Married and Her Brother's Accident
8:30

Meeting Tony - Honeymoon
6:25

Meeting Tony - House Fire at the Bovens
1:48

The Reluctant Streaker: Tony and the WWII Draft
6:03

Connection to the Land: Favorite Season & Flowers
8:33

Childhood - Work and Winter Evening Rituals (A)
4:33

Childhood - Work and Winter Evening Rituals (B)
8:44

Childhood - Games (A)
5:37

Childhood - Games (B)
9:54

The First Years on the Farm - A Woman's Work
8:40

The First Years on the Farm - Wanting a Finer Life