The Old Timer Page 2004

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The Way We Used To Do it...

When my grandfather got his first tractor
he decided to keep his horses and old horse-
drawn equipment in case the day ever
came when he couldn't buy gas or tractor
parts. Grandpa, his horses and farm
machinery are now gone. But his vision
lives on.

H The Spring House

H The Ice House

H Building a Root Cellar (5 pages)

H Potting Meat

H Long Life Salt Cured Ham

H Salt Curing Meat in Brine

H Yeast Cultures for Bread Making

H Making Bread in a wood burning oven

H Making Butter

H Making Sauerkraut

H Soap Making (13 pages & 33 Sites)

H Growing and Harvesting Wheat By Hand

H Building a Cistern

H The Out House

H Remember Mama's Recipes (46 pages)

H Grama's Recipes for Life By Julie Janson (30 pages)

H Knowing Where To Dig A Well by Rod Hendricks

H Digging A Well By Hand

H Memories, by Libby Maxwell

H Just for Fun - The Homestead House

H Just for Fun - Getting Electricity

H Just for Fun - Getting Water

H Just for Fun - Heber Valley Products

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Links to Other Sites

H American Memory Historical Collection

H Old Time Trade Exibitions at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

H The 1850 Westville, GA Living History Museum See 1850's cooking, candlemaking,
buildings & furnishings, blacksmithing, spinning and weaving, pottery making...

H Widow Rumble's Home Page Recreations of many facets of life in the 1800's.

H Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

H Association of Personal Historians. Helping people preserve their life stories.

H The Online Homesteading and Small Farming Resource

H Candle Making Supplies and Information

H Spinning Wheel FAQs by Christine Jordan

H Handmade Parchment & Vellum

H Cheese Making

H Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.

H Cisterns by the University of Florida

H The Rural Resource Center

H The Kansas Pioneer Way of Life by Norris Torrance

H Jackie's Smoke House

H The Rugmaker's Homestead '99 Learn to make a rag rug.

H Old type bread baking ovens

H Laura Ingalls Wilder author of Little House on the Prairie

H The Overland Trail Tons of really interesting, exciting stuff.

H The Home Steader Web Ring

H Family History of Walter Scott

H Eldon’s Jerky and Sausage Supply Everything you need to cure meat.

H Whoever thought plumbing history would be interesting???

H Hundreds of Civil War Recipes

H Farm Dogs

H Captain John Outwater's Company Living History Site

H Hand Weaving - Fiber News/Fiber Arts

H William "Cookie" Luke's Cowboy Site.

H Country Folks Magazine

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The Old Timer's Page
It has been said that when a person dies a library burns.

Only those who have tried to compile a life story on someone
who has departed this life knows what a reality this is. Today
there is an increasing self awareness among many toward
becoming more self reliant. We try new things and - in my
opinion - try to re-invent the wheel. The pioneers of 100 years
ago were already more self sufficient than most of us will ever
be. Perhaps instead of looking to the future and new ways of
doing things, we ought to at least take a small look into the
past and re-acquaint ourselves with the old ways that are
proven, that work, yet are nearly forgotten. The subjects listed
on this page comes from the old folks themselves.
Occasionally their stories have been supplemented with newer
ways of doing the same things, but generally the ideas and
methods remain theirs.

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