Comments on: Mormon History Coloring Book 1923: November, “Agricultural Growth”

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:23:54 +0000

Glad to hear it, Suzanne. Thanks for mentioning that.

By: Suzanne Alva

Suzanne Alva — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:36:34 +0000

these are beautiful to teach children to be thankful. I am using these for my grandchildren.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:58:53 +0000

I halfway expected Tatiana to mention those drive belts, Clark; I’m glad you did.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:41:44 +0000

If I can do simple arithmatic, we’re farther removed from the 1923 technology than they were from the first pioneers. No wonder the steam-powered tractors and flapping drive belts (without guards)look quaint.

I appreciate my morning orange juice as much as Researcher, but I also believe there’s a level of appreciation that comes from producing some of one’s own food. The Law of the Harvest and other Gospel principles become much more concrete …Not to mention that I have yet to taste a store-bought peach or tomato that tastes as good as the ones I pick from my own yard.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:43:58 +0000

These are lovely. I’m indeed thankful that I can have such wonderful fresh tasty food all year round as I find at my local market. We had a story book when I was a child called Gateway to Story Land, by Watty Piper, illustrated by Eulalie. Inside was sort of a cornucopia of children’s tales. One was about Mr. Pig going to market, in which he bought the most luscious vegetables of all varieties, and some lamb, for lamb stew. On the way he invited all his friends of different species to dinner, even, oddly enough, some sheep. These pictures remind me a bit of that story, which it seemed to me was about enjoyment of plenty. It’s good to stop and remember and be grateful and glad for all we have sometimes.

By: REW

REW — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:39:16 +0000

The word “Progressive” in the primary theme caught my eye. I wonder what the connotations of the word were in that day.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:36:07 +0000

I too am glad that we don’t have to do all that labor by hand–but I am glad to have fresh blueberries picked from the bushes in our garden yesterday.

For all the machinery used in agriculture by 1923, there was still a lot of work to do by hand. For 20 years after that, my dad’s family had a cow, and she was milked twice a day, by hand, by the man and boys in the family. My grandmother made butter–I’ll have to ask whether that was all done with a hand churn.

And, I wish I had seen this before church. I would have printed it to keep me occupied during the slow moments.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:22:08 +0000

Ha! I’m printing these off for the kids to take to Sacrament Meeting today.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:30:59 +0000

Thanks, Researcher. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed it, and I’m sad that we’re almost through the series.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:37:33 +0000

That’s lovely. I’ll print that off for one of the younger children to color during church.

And I must say, I do agree with the last couple of lines “For such advancement you and I/ Should very thankful be.” It is nice that I didn’t have to milk the cows this morning and gather the eggs and cut the bacon from a slab hanging in the cellar (which we would have had to slaughter ourselves in previous generations) and pick the blueberries and squeeze the oranges for orange juice (if there were even oranges to be had) and harvest and grind the flour for the breakfast cake.

Thanks for posting this beautiful series of poems and illustrations.