Every week, I share an excerpt from my Great Aunt’s book, As the Story is Told: A History of Morpeth and Community, which was printed in 1986. Note, this is a historical text and I don’t necessarily agree with all of the authours’ views or turns of phrase. This week’s chapter is about the settlement…
An idyllic vintage hunting scene for a November day. This was sent to my great grandmother in June 1907 from her brother.
I wonder how much time my great-grandfather spent making calculations like these, below? Do you suppose this method is still used for weighing cattle ;)? Miscellaneous Rules. (page 122) Rules for Ascertaining the Number of Tons of Hay in a Stack. – Measure around the stack in the largest place, multiply the number of feet…
My great great uncle and his wife had a lot of photographs of their pets from the 1900s (these three from 1915-1919). They lived in “The Old House” close to “The Shed”, which was very close to where my childhood house was. The house was still standing when I was a very young child, and…
When my dad was 10 years old, he was hit by a car. I remember asking him about it fairly often as a child, though it is hard for him to remember very many details of that day. I do have his grandmother’s account of the day from this journal on April 30, 1956: “Allan…
My Grandmother was diabetic. She had this tiny dish with a little bell in the lid to hold artificial sweetener pills. She had another one that looked like a mother hen, with a tiny spoon sticking out that looked like a chick. Here is another sweet heirloom I received from my great aunt. She left…
On Sundays, I share some of my memories of living on our heritage farm as a child. The reason I started The Farmhouse Chronicles is my connection to the land of my parents and ancestors, so this series is dedicated to sharing these stories. The well house stands adjacent to a laneway that ran along…
