Tag: farming

• “I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me.” John Deere

  Here’s what happened when I taught school one day: A teacher assigns the now completely boring and overdone 4th grade project of doing a history report on a famous American. The “fun” part is coming in dressed like the figure. (Okay, I think George Washington Carver was kinda cool, but every year there’s like 20…

  Adrienne Morris

  February 9, 2015

  Men, United States History

  19th century farming, bad teachers, blogging, boys in school, education, farming, John Deere, Life, schools failing boys, sod busters, tractor history, Writing

• Pennsylvania Boy Becomes World Famous Artist

  Adrienne Morris

  January 17, 2015

  Beautiful Images, United States History

  1700s, American art, Art, Benjamin West, blogging, Culture, farming, harvest, Painting, Royal Academy

• Quarterbacks and Chickens

  The holidays have come and gone with hours spent on the couch “marathoning” Friday Night Lights with my teenaged kids (we’re obsessed). My husband hasn’t quite been sucked in. He says: “I don’t have to watch a show about football; I’ve lived it.” It’s funny how in fiction a paralyzed high school quarterback looks glamorous–even…

  Adrienne Morris

  January 6, 2015

  19th Century Art, Writing

  19th century, Art, farming, football, Friday Night Lights, Winslow Homer, Writing

• Horse Power, Hurray?

  To everyone driving today in your car feeling incredibly guilty for destroying the environment, let’s get some perspective. The automobile was once rightly hailed as an environmental savior. I think most horses if they could talk would agree. In movies the horse drawn carriage looks pretty romantic, but imagine living in a city with a…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 10, 2014

  Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past

  19th century, 19th century transportation, city life, farming, horsepower, horses, immigrants and the economy, United States History, Writing