I would agree, my grandparents small farm, south and east of here 20 miles or so, is essentially not much different than Appalachia type mountains, terrain, heck of a view nearby right off one of the rural roads. The contiguous lands that abound and were part of theirs, is all stone walls and in the early 80's I was there for 2 years, and I was amazed that some of them were neatly stacked and they ran for miles it seemed. Very large tracts of land in whole, all connected, all in forest at the time, and it is mountainous terrain, lots of boulders and rocks. Not all were stacked 4' high and symmetrical, but there were sections that were, I had never seen a wall intact and that high, someone spent some time on it for sure. I would really like to see it today, sadly they tore the old general store down/house that was theirs and their huge barn as well, that went many years before. Those stone walls, define the word work. I just can't imagine all the hand labor it took to initially clear these fields, and even into the 50's around here it was all fence lines and fields, clean fence lines, meaning someone had to maintain all of them. They'd cringe if they ever saw it today. That era was not long before me, as kids all we knew was barbed wire fences and how to get around, over, through them etc. when exploring the woods, it was everywhere and I still find locust posts and or know where sections still stand, its something when you think of all of it, I'd just have loved to see all the old farms, barns and land the way it was, old aerial photos do give us a glimpse though.
Type in an address in the below site, its incredible the first time you see a familiar place, I had a real hard time figuring out where I am now, then one landmark tipped me off, lot of fun to look back !
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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