[AT] Sad times

[Kenneth Gene Waugh]

I have felt the same thing. Most of my family were farmers in NE Indiana
since the 1880s. Along with many others, my folks both left the farm. I
spent a great deal of time on these farms, especially the one of my
maternal grandparents. Also several uncles, etc.

Six months or so I was over that way and drove a loop passing a number of
my old haunts. I won’t be making that drive again. Most of the houses are
still there, but not a single barn I stacked so much hay in still stands.
Mother’s folks had a large (mostly apple) orchard. It too is gone. Happily,
I have an aerial view from the mid 50s. That picture makes a sad comparison
to the satellite image of today.

Ok, that’s enough. Just an old man reminiscing!!

Gene Waugh
Elgin Illinois

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 7:15 PM Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On 7/24/2019 4:30 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> > Had to take a trip to a town 20 miles from here today. Decided to
> > bring back roads home; pasted many old barns some falling down, some
> > being kept up. You could tell from the old milk houses that many had
> > been dairy farms. Many old silos, a lot with the blower pipes still
> > up. All are now a part of the past, a past that will never come back.
> > Many memories came to mine of how it used to be, farms all over with
> > small herds of cattle and the family making a living. My dad was able
> > to raise 6 kids and send most to college on 160 acres; my mother never
> > worked off the farm- she never worked on the farm either but thats a
> > whole other story. Now we have several farms in the county that milk
> > over 5000 cows.
>
> I lived through those good times too and its sad to see them gone. Most
> obvious here is the disappearance of the wooden grain elevators and the
> rail lines that brought life to every
>
> little town here. Maybe each generation sees the same thing in the loss
> of the way of life they knew.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
>
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Kenneth Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois
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