Holidays From the Olden Days

Reader Contribution by The Mother Earth News Editors
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This story is from Pearl O’Neill and was submitted as part of our Wisdom from Our Elders collection of self-sufficient tales from yesteryear.

In the olden days, my family and I lived on a farm in northwest New Jersey. Back in those days, we had lots of snow and hills to slide on with our Christmas sleighs and enjoy the holidays.

On Christmas Day, the farm animals had to be cared for first. My father always had 24 milk cows, so every morning and night we milked the cows. We had to use a kerosene lantern hung on a beam in the barn to have light to milk the cows when I was 7 years old. Once you learn to milk, you never forget how.

  • Published on Jun 11, 2012
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