Volume 8 , Issue 5

Threshing Machines & Cook Shacks...

Let's go back to the threshing machines of the 1920's that our ancestors used before the combine came along. The threshing machines would be parked in the fields -- wheat, oats and barley would be cut and tied in bundles -- then shocked and hauled to the threshing machine.

Farmers, neighbors helping neighbors, would gather together while the women would pitch a tent-like structure in the field to be used as a "Cook Shack" (or chuck wagon). Those were the days of the "straw piles" and cattle using those piles in the winter to keep warm.

All those abandoned houses setting windowless out there on the prairie that we pass everyday still hold memories and stories of families that once occupied those dwellings long ago. The dwellings are mostly decayed, barely standing, setting back into the overgrown trees or torn down. BUT... that doesn't mean we can not bring back the memories and preserve them for the future generations. That's where we need your HELP! Send us your family memories, photos and help us preserve them for the next generations. Let us not take our modern conveniences for granted?

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