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Research Is Fun!
Author Update
Researching farming for Heartstrings has been fun this past month. I’m a city girl who’s always dreamed of living on a farm, or at least a little homestead., so I had a lot to learn. First, I listed all the crops a dairy farm would need for their animals: alfalfa, barley, and oats. In 1893, they had horses, not modern tractors, which led to HOW, how often, and when these crops were harvested. Very interesting stuff!
A Little Postal History
A Little Postal History
In 1893 Rural Mail Carrier, Carl Frick, delivered the U.S. mail by mule to the post office in the Arley Store in Kearney, Missouri where residents picked it up until Rural Free Delivery around 1910. He rode a mule because he couldn’t afford a horse. The pictures below show the outside and inside of the actual furnishings of that post office. You can see them in person, as well as the picture of Carl Frick, at the Kearney Historic Museum.