Comments on: Advent: The Christmas Treasure http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/22/advent-the-christmas-treasure/ Where our past is never very long ago Thu, 23 May 2013 03:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/22/advent-the-christmas-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-37530 Carol Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:57:51 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9555#comment-37530 That also describes spud harvest in Rigby, Idaho. That’s where we all earned our school money for the year.

It also makes me pity the spoiled kids who don’t know how much work money is worth.

]]> By: Coffinberry http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/12/22/advent-the-christmas-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-37512 Coffinberry Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:59:00 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=9555#comment-37512 Where I went to high school in Tennessee in the early 1980s, this would have been written:

the general exodus from the school. room to the TOBACCO field becomes so great in NOVEMBER, that in many places a vacation of a fortnight is held, when the sword, or at least the TOBACCO knife, becomes mightier than the pen.

But a story like that wouldn’t appear in a church magazine, I don’t think.

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