It’s not hard to understand why family farms continue to disappear across America. It’s hard work, REALLY hard work, and it’s ridiculously expensive to get started. One of the only ways that folks seem to be making it in farming today is when family farms are passed down from generation to generation. But even then, […]
This church, originally built in 1917 in Hardin, Montana by Lutheran Volga German immigrants, is now part of the Big Horn County Historical Museum. Back in its day, my Better Half’s father received his confirmation in this church. The year was 1939. After studying for the sacrament for nearly two years in German, as was common […]
At the beginning of the 1900s, wagons like this one at the Big Horn County Historical Museum in Hardin, Montana were used to harvest sugar beets. It was a very manual process. The farmer would drive a team of horses pulling an implement called a “puller” through the rows of sugar beets to dig them […]
After a picnic along the Yellowstone River, Father’s Day ended with a walk along the Zimmerman Trail at dusk. The walking trail is high above Billings along the rimrocks. While the walk is definitely less paved and more treacherous than the Mill Creek Streamway Park trails I walk frequently back home, the views are simply […]
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