“Let your creativity bloom.” – Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store Quilters hide green thumbs under their thimbles. When spring breezes beckon them outdoors and the soil invites their fingers to dig in, these creators of fabric turn to their organic roots. Taking the skills of color contrast, design and texture…
“Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.” – John Harvey Kellogg As my husband brings in another wire basket full of potatoes to can, my heart sings a song of thanksgiving. Being able to safely preserve the harvest from the garden is not to be taken lightly. As the motto…
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” -President Franklin D. Roosevelt The Great Depression defined our grandparents. That period of time flung a generation of children into desperately hard circumstances. Their character set by the motto: “Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do. Or…
“I know every engineer on every train, All of their children and all of their names, And every handout in every town…..” -Ralph Miller, King of the Road No one wanted to be a hobo. But choices lessened as the Great Depression of the 1930’s deepened into a decade…
