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| Entrance to the AWHC Wellsville. Ut. |
A few weeks ago, my wife and I took our three year old to the fall harvest days at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville Ut. This was a great experience to see many things that are now considered to be obsolete. We experienced what it was like on the farm in the late 1800's early 1900's. The machinery and tools, the homes and even the processes of food storage. This was a great way to relate to our three year old what was different 100 years ago. We saw the blacksmith shop, the wood-rite shop, the mercantile and the farmhouse. All of which were educational and fun to see. We also visited the native american tee pee and the mountain man trading post. Some of the highlights for our daughter was the corn shelling in a piece of chicken wire and the handmade corn husk dolls.
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| Making corn husk dolls, Jordan Bartholomew Oct, 2015 |
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| Shelling corn cobs, Jordan Bartholomew Oct 2015 |
My perspective of this experience had a new vision from my time in Farm and Literature. I imagined this not being a special experience but a daily occurrence. The settlers and homesteaders would have to do these things on a daily basis to survive. A self sufficient people living off the land. This is something that as a society has strayed from. We now rely on Walmart for all our stuff and assume everything is made in China. What would we all do if we had no choice but to return to the land and make do without the luxuries of the 21st century. Would we be able to do it?
