How long have women worked for a better future? It’s been over 100 years ago that the Farmer’s Wife magazine asked its readers the question, “Do you want your daughter to marry a farmer?” The magazine received responses from women all over the United States. Laurie compiled many of these glimpses into farm wives’ lives and paired them with traditional…

“My Boy” and I started out fourteen years ago, he fresh from a bank job, and I, from the schoolroom. We knew almost nothing about farming, but felt as truly “called” as Abraham did in the days of old. “They’ll be back in town within two years,” our friends prophesied. But we’re still here. After seven years of stock-share renting…

This essay first appeared in the January 1924 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine–100 years ago this month. There is no time like winter time to turn the human heart toward home. Summer days are days of roaming, when the hills call and the woods beckon and there is invitation everywhere to be up and away. And home is a resting…

100 years ago this month, a magazine published an essay written by Booth Tarkington for a column called “I Remember a Christmas.” Booth Tarkington was an extremely popular author in his day who won two Pulitzer Prize for his works. Tarkington titled this particular essay, “The Christmas That Means Most.“ Looking ahead When we were children, we began looking to…