{"id":27181,"date":"2021-01-14T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?post_type=product&p=27181"},"modified":"2021-11-16T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:49:25","slug":"old-fashioned-farm-life-coloring-book","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/old-fashioned-farm-life-coloring-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Fashioned Farm Life Coloring Book"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Life on a farm before the advent of tractors relied on horse-drawn equipment and the skills and labor of many people, as the detailed drawings in this fascinating book reveal. Accurately rendered by A. G. Smith, 43 ready-to-color illustrations depict a wide variety of farm activities in mid-nineteenth-century America.<\/p>\n
Based on scenes re-created on the Firestone Farm at historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, the drawings include authentically detailed views of kitchen chores (churning butter, preparing foods); seasonal occupations (shearing sheep, mowing hay, gathering pumpkins, “harvesting” and “sugaring off” maple syrup), as well as plowing, planting, caring for livestock, splitting firewood, raising a barn, and many other activities.<\/p>\n
Peter H. Cousins, Curator of Agriculture at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, has written an informative introduction and provided fact-filled captions for this entertaining and educational view of life in bygone rural America.<\/p>\n
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