Piecing A Legacy: A 1930’s Dust Bowl Quilt
With the perspective of youth, Dennis McCann observed, “Those must have been depressing times, those long ago days of bread and milk, of feedbag clothes, and canned tumbleweed dinners. Of little or nothing.” Jane Tamse countered in her feeble, quivering voice, “Those were frugal days, but they left us with…
Storing Up Sunshine
“Canned tomatoes are like summer saved: all that deep sun kissed flavor ready to be enjoyed.” – Better Homes and Gardens The kitchen knife slides easily across the cooked beets, creating burgundy cross sections of summertime goodness slipping into sterilized jars. A cup of hot vinegar-sugar syrup tops the beets…