Folklore Magazine - Autumn 2008

Poetry:

Thanksgiving Memory - by Keith Foster
After September - by Jean Reinhardt

Features:

The Changing Face of Rural Education - by Naden Hewko
The author accounts the phasing out of country schools as early as the 1920s and continues today. Mrs. Hewko also describes the sport of discing as part of the social activities associated with schools.

Homemade Checkers - by Margaret Lees
Being allowed to have indoor recess during cold school days inspired to author to be creative at home.

Prairie Fire - by L. M. Sivertson
A neighbour's trip into town while leaving a brush fire burning caused commotion with eventual consequences.

The Boy from Hanley - by Kay Parley
The author's memories of meeting actor Neil McCallum while he was training as a psychiatric nurse in Weyburn.

Midnight Run - by William C. N. Caird
A true story about the adventure caused by boredom, a graveyard and Halloween night.

Farm Wells - by Victor Carl Friesen
Mr. Friesen's family experience with wells that went dry during the 1940s and the efforts taken to keep a producing well.

Mrs. Davidson's Candy Store - by Margaret Lees
A threshing time experience eventually resulted in a trip across border to the doctor and the candy store.

Fudging a Bid - by Harry Beskorovayny
Sneaky efforts were required to win a contract for a school basement.

The Dream Home - by Bev Lundahl
Lenus & Ida Lundahl built such a strong house in the R. M of Benson, that it lasted many families and still stands straight to this day.

My Father the Homesteader - by John W. McLellan
Charles F. McLellan left a retail career in New Brunswick to stake a land claim in the Eagle Creek district. His homestead experiences lead him to become a correspondent for the Montreal Star newspaper.

A Binder-driving Tractor? - by J. Alvin Speers
The author's claim of the innovative binder-driving tractor is proven true.

Columns:

Looking Back - by Jack Drieger
The Comfortractor was ahead of its time in the farm machinery world.

Depression Ingenuity - by Jack Driedger
Without money, Depression ingenuity devised a way to extend the wick on a coal lamp and a recipe for homemade shoe polish.

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