Wheat People: North Central Kansas Harvest Tales

Clay

-- David Smith: "Time was reckoned as before or after harvest."

-- William B. Thomas: Rattlesnake in a wheat bundle and Changing technology.

Cloud

Dickinson

-- Evelyn Shetter: A noon meal and Evening on a threshing day.

Ellsworth

-- Adamek family: Harvest slide show of threshing scenes.

Jewell

Lincoln

-- Edward W. Merz: An embarrassing mealtime incident and "To me it was a horrifying experience."

Mitchell

-- Carldon Broadbent: Harvest meals and breakdowns and repairs.

-- Greg German: Poems entitled The 1st Day of Harvest, Lunch Time, and The Last Day of Harvest.

-- Marianne Metcalf: Harvest meals and "I started helping with harvest when I was eleven."

Osborne

-- Eda Jean Hildredth: "In 1936 my parents were among the desperately poor farmers. . . ."

Ottawa

-- Marie Brown: A 1911 photographic postcard of threshing.

-- Jagger family: 1980s photos of combines and the family eating dinner in the field.

-- Marjorie Miller & Melvin Zuker: A threshing story and photograph.

-- Anna Allison Peck: Harvest during World War II and Trapped in a straw stack.

-- Maxine Baker Windhorst: Driving the Model T Ford during harvest.

Republic

Russell

-- H. B. Milberger: Three images of combining wheat in 1947.

Saline

-- Clayton Short: Selecting wheat varieties.

-- Louanne Short: "On family farms, the whole family comes together...."

Smith

-- Marjorie Maydew Bell: "Wheat Harvest," a poem.

-- Mildred Parker: "A Spark from a Tractor, 1919" (poem).

Washington

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