MANN TALK: Wisdom from a Fundamentalist

May 19, 2012 |  I learned to plant corn, to thin corn, to plow corn, hoe corn, harvest corn, shuck corn and feed corn to the animals that did their part in producing the food. I learned to cut hay, shock hay, barn hay and feed hay in the darkness of winter evenings. I learned to plant wheat, cradle wheat, shock wheat, help the thrashing of wheat My parent were both born and reared on subsistence farms, on farms that depended upon horse power and one that even had oxen power. It was back to the land for me. Without employment, my father could not buy food for the table and he had no land and sidewalks are sterile places for . Once he had employment, he married my mother and they moved to Charleston and resided on Russell St. There I was born and soon there were two other children. My father at age 18 joined that great exodus in 1918, migrating to Charleston via theChesapeake and Ohio Railway. Then came 1929 and then in 1933 the bank holiday. Read more »