Broad Valley Orchard

Hard Times in Early 18th Century London, Hard Times in Wales,
Hard Times on the Pa. Canal, Hard Times in the North Side Mills
{Note- italics indicate historical conjecture based upon incomplete records}
Note: 23Jul 2011 - Update!  The following italicized conjecture is hereby relegated to the dust bin of history. A June 2011 update; “Of Puddlers [...]

Hello All,
Last week I posted that my farm journal was going on sabbatical. If you have enjoyed reading my scribblings, I invite you to return to our home page, and look under “catagories” to “Rusted Dreams - Busted Lives”. I have been dabbling in the history of [...]

In 2006, when I was in the fifty-eighth year of my life, I decided that I should learn who my family was. When I was four years I lived in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. I lived in a loving family, but I was suddenly orphaned. My thirty-six year old [...]

Hello All, I have kept up this farm journal for two years, and a lot of you have told me you enjoy it. Thank You! But I reviewed a lot of my previous winter entries, and they are fairly repetitive, because my life follows the seasons, and my farm work and my farm [...]