Source: Wikimedia Commons
In 1974 an American household that kept bees had four white boxes on concrete blocks along a fencerow, facing southeast, with a windbreak behind them.
The equipment was…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
There Was One Razor and It Lasted a Lifetime
Source: Wikimedia Commons
It was a single piece of steel, hollow-ground, hinged into a handle of bone, horn, celluloid or…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
There Was a Tank in the Yard and Nobody Could See It
Somewhere out from the house, under the grass, was a buried concrete box the size of…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Shirt Did Not Come With a Collar
Source: Wikimedia Commons
A man's dress shirt was a body with sleeves and a neckband, and nothing above it. The neckband…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
It Started After the First Hard Frost
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Nutting had a season and it was short. The nuts ripen on the tree, and then a hard frost…
Source: Wikimedia Commons
In 1974 every American household had a stack of them against the garage wall: bent aluminum tube, woven plastic strapping in two colors, folding flat to a couple…