Traditional Skills...

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Wow Donna, that's beautiful writing about the legacy skills of your ancestors.  I would love to see more of it.  It is so difficult to find written information about those traditional American skills.   I for one, would be happy to pay for anything that you put together of what they did that you know about, and also skills that any of them taught you.  The skills are the same as my earlier ancestors that I never met.  With the exception of my grandmother.  My grandmother's mother married a widower with 11 children when she was 16, and they went on to have 11 more.  They were tobacco farmers.  She used to birth a baby, and be out in the field of tobacco with baby on her back in the afternoon...that's not a fable!  My grandmother paid $100. for her wedding blouse in 1920, from the money of her own tobacco crop that she worked.  My grandfather's parents had the sheep, and made the wool products that you speak of.  I saw my grandmother make butter and buttermilk, but she was not still making cottage cheese in 1956 and on, even though she still had the one cow.  I'd love to know what your grandmother did.  Of course I've been off these lists for some time now, dealing with my Father's Alzheimer's, so you may have already shared this, and I just haven't seen it.Regards,Rona Rona Myers SullivanBonnyclabber Country Cheese1754 Mill Creek RoadWake, VA   23176http://www.bonnyclabber cheese.comhttp://www.southerncheese.comMAKE CHEESE..NOT WAR...Rona