Home Economics

Turn of the Century: Home Is Where The Hearth Is

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Turn of the Century: Home Is Where The Hearth Is

With hard work and firm resolve, we gratefully tackled the opportunities of our new country in a new century. We knew our place: to provide a warm hearth , an abundant harvest, and healthy heirs to work the land.

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The Teens: ‘Til We Meet Again

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The Teens: ‘Til We Meet Again

For king and country we bid farewell to husbands, sons, and lovers. The “war to end all wars” claimed the lives of 60,000 men and created a new class of breadwinners…widows and spinsters.

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The Twenties: Rebellion with an Attitude

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The Twenties: Rebellion with an Attitude

Out from the chaos of WW1, we challenged all the social conventions. We cut off our tresses, we shortened our dresses and we smoked cigarettes! Such an attitude…but we never got off the porch.

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The Dirty Thirties: Drought and Depression

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The Dirty Thirties: Drought and Depression

The realities of our everyday world closed in and we struggled and feared for our family and home.
We were back to the basics…water, food, and shelter.

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The Forties: Keep the Home Fires Burning

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The Forties: Keep the Home Fires Burning

When men went off to war, women stepped in and kept the assembly lines rolling. We welded, we rationed and we waited for word from overseas.

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The Fifties: From Making to Baking Bread

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The Fifties: From Making to Baking Bread

Time to return to normal…father goes out to work, mother stays home and cleans and bakes and makes babies. This was what we wanted…wasn’t it?

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