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Originally Posted by rmd2
My mom was born in a farm in 1909. She grew up with no electric, no cars. Grandpa had a horse that pulled the plow on the farm. He lived to be 96. Even when I was a little girl we stayed at another relative's farm and they had one electric wire strung across the ceiling with a bare light bulb in the house, no phone, unpasturized milk, no indoor bathroom, and a hand pump in the kitchen for water.
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I moved from Boston to a then rural town in the early 60s
The town grocery store is now a 4 table pizza joint and a same size convenience store.
There were 3 to 4 cattle farms on the road out to my house. One additional farm was on a hill for hay, and still used a horse to ?? it in the 60s due to the slope.
There were many police reports of cattle in the road which had escaped.
Only the major roads had asphalt, the remainder had dirt or sand covered asphalt liquid
That is civilized compared to RMD's farm description above. . . our ancestors were tough, coming from the agrarian age. Working for survival every day, just like a gazelle on the Serenghetti, eat or be eaten, farm or starve. .
The Lewis and clark expedition had to find food almost every day, just to survive, as they couldn't carry much which would feed them for months.