BUGGY ON THE BARN ROOF
"What They Did and How They Did It"
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Just imagine . . . .
Imagine yourself sitting on a porch in the evening with your widowed and aged mother, wondering what life was like for her during the first quarter of the 20th Century.
Imagine yourself asking her to share her memories of those early years in an America so different from the one you have known.
Imagine that, in her 10th decade of life, she is both able to remember and willing to put into writing “what they did and how they did it” in rural America between 1900 and 1925.
Imagine that she actually did it!
That’s what our Mom did. And you don’t have to imagine the result. You’re holding it in your hands.
Buggy on the Barn Roof
By Thilda Wennes Egertson
She did it for us because we asked her to. But we invite you to read over our shoulder because in many ways it is as much about others whose roots are embedded in the soil of rural America as it is about us, from our immigrant great-grandparents to today.
So, enjoy!
“Her children rise up and call her blessed . . .”
Proverbs 31:28
Sylvia Wennes (Egertson) Gildenvan
Paul Wennes Egertson
Margarethe Wennes (Egertson) Calfas