I tell you, Governor, that in those days they weren’t ashamed to have a little good liquor around to warm the insides of a man weary and as cold as a mackerel from an all night job.
In 1961 the Governor bluelined the funds.
Many farm practices may seem to the outsider to be cruel, but you have to be cruel to be kind. Many times in farming practice we are cruel but we cannot avoid being cruel. In that cruelty there is a certain kindness, and that is what we are looking for all the time.
Nora Virginia Wolfe Houldershell (Moorefield, West Virginia), and how she dried fruit […] They called the dried apple peels 'apple snits' and hung them on the tree at Christmas along with popcorn, cranberries, and other edibles. Grandma Wolfe made watermelon wine from the flesh and juice, pickles from the rind, and planted [them].