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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 173313" data-attributes="member: 4743">ah you guys.  Would of been in the sixth grade 60 years ago.  Eight grade graduation was a big thing back then and that was it for some.  Yes the sticks did hurt and yes it was worse when you got home.  There was a ton of work to do by hand and even if not by hand it was done by hand.  But for the daughter, done with school then leave home and find your keep somewhere else.But in all serious my mother told me this story.She started school I would guess in about 1918.  Could not speak English only what she had learn at home being Finn.At first day of school teacher put a dunce hat on her and made her sit in the corner due to her inability to speak English.  She said all the kids laugh at her.Went home to tell her parents and expected them to raise hell.  Her dad, my grandfather, told her we are in America now and you will learn English.  So she learn English and it was the start of her learning proper.  Today it just might be a different story on how that was handled. Grandparents came from the old country so I would guess little education.  One grandmother started giving birth of many at age 15.  But my generation has heard about the homestead days from the parents, aunts and even the grandparents talking to today with all that is.  Been a lot of changes in that short time.  And I did see running water coming with REA and the rest but nothing like what my grandparents went through.  Had to be little in the old country for those to come to a barren land with nothing in their pocket. db- - - Updated - - -As the stories are told, yesterday a 32 year old lady told me about her grandparents finally getting running water in 1975 and their first washer and dryer in 1995.  This is in ND. Then a few years ago they went to help the grandparents clean up their 7 bedroom home.  Before they were done they found over $100,000 in various places in the home including the mattress.  She said it made a big stack on the kitchen table. My dad a farmer would always say every spring "we need to at least get the seed back for next year"  a big thing in the beginning that a bank would lend a few hundred for seed and sometimes they would not and then you were screw.Need rain and if we do not see some in the next month and the way the fields lay we will see some big dirt storms as some already have.  db</blockquote>

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