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Neil added a note to Sunday, September 21, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “Daddy and Mama would take us Sloe picking on the hills around the gravel quarry (on Mr Edmon's land) and near the indian wier in the river on the south side of Highway 40. Sloes are wild grapes that grow on a vine. Seems to me we also picked hazelnuts fro”
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Neil added a note to Thursday, August 14, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “Powell Hotel - (see http://www.victorianvilla.com/sims-mitchell/local/street/main/s/00/) - 27 South Main (6/2005) was constructed around 1920 by James W. Collie as a hotel.1 Through much of the 20th century it was known as the Powell Hotel, owned by Kate”
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Neil added a note to Tuesday, August 19, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “I think saved is correct. Tobacco harvesting also included "pulling" (removing the loose leaves from the stalk in the field and "cutting" (earlier process of cutting the entire stalk and bring it to the barn where the stalk was split and hung over a stick”
Neil added a note to Monday, June 30, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “Suspect Linda got it correct - it was remarkable to see five horses being used to plow a field, all at the same time, but certainly not impossible if the farmer had the hands and help. The mowing was probably being done with a two horse drawn sickle bar m”
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Neil added a note to Tuesday, July 8, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “From Wiki - A mill race or raceway is the current or channel of a stream, esp. one for conducting water to or from a water wheel. I believe they were typically made of wood and at Cedar Forest I think it was a wood trough about two or three feet wide that”
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Neil added a note to Sunday March 13, 1921 in 1921 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “Should we make a practice of forcing the second r in Carr? May help in data mining and differentiating between an automobile and Ben's inlaws?”
Neil added a note to Monday, June 23, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “Biggle swine book : much old and more new hog knowledge, arranged in alternate streaks of fat and lean ~COPYRIGHT, 1898
WILMER ATKINSON Co. ~ The pig, the rent payer of Europe, the
mortgage lifter of America" ~ I know of
no food better, if indeed a”
Neil added a note to Saturday, March 1, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “The zoom doesn't seem to respond to the part of the page picked on. I think it was working better than this. The problem may lie with the beholder.”
Neil added a note to Tuesday, February 4, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “"Jim hung up the meat..." > I think this would have been a step in preserving the hog meat.
Some time about Thanksgiving, they would have killed hogs and butchered the meat into hams, sholders, bacon, fat back,... that went into the salt box. It stayed”
Neil added a note to Thursday, January 16, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “The person that started to Danville may have been "Posie" not Josie as she played cards with Ben and Jim which caused Julia's primitive baptists feelings to show in the last line.”
Neil added a note to Tuesday, June 10, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “Aunt Mabel may need to be consulted on this one but I think you're correct and the cropped greens would have been turnip greens as opposed to creasy salat or poke salat that was picked out of the "wild".
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Neil added a note to Monday, April 7, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “A grubbing hoe is built much like a hoe but with a thicker blade. You would hoe weeds but would grub roots and other wood like things - pokeberry vines and such.”
Neil added a note to Thursday, March 7, 1918 in 1918 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “You are correct on the tonight - meteor, northern lights? The barn logs were likely building material for a barn raising later in the year - look for one later on.”
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Neil added a note to Wednesday, March 13, 1918 in 1918 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “The road was dirt and very doubtful that any gravel or rock was used for the road surface. After a long rainy spell, the road was probably rutted from both the horses and wagons and the automobiles and trucks. Once the road was dry enough to be worked, th”
Neil added a note to Saturday, March 2, 1918 in 1918 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “At that time, the tobacco was cut instead of being pulled and the stalk was split and hung over a tobacco stick. They could have either hauled the tobacco stalks away from the pack barn where the tobacco had been stripped from the stalks, or hauled corn s”
Neil added a note to Wednesday, February 5, 1919 in 1919 in Julia Brumfield Diaries, saying “My first answer was pork sausage, but, then, that is loose, ground up raw meat. For that time and place, there were no refrigerators or freezers (nor electricity until 1938) so from a hog killing of say 4 hogs, probably in excess of 100# of sausage. The o”
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