{"id":9162,"date":"2021-06-02T21:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2021-09-09T06:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:55:23","slug":"episode-356-our-farm-in-1958-and-way-back-in-1914-when-it-was-really-a-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9162","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 356 OUR FARM IN 1958 AND WAY BACK IN 1914 WHEN IT WAS REALLY A FARM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE:  I HOPE  THESE PICS MAKE SENSE\u2026GIVE AN IMPRESSION OF THE<\/div>\n
IMPORTANCE OF THE FREEMAN FARM AS ALL OF US TOOK OUR HUMAN JOURNEY<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 356    OUR FARM IN 1958 AND WAY BACK IN 1914 WHEN IT WAS REALLY A FARM<\/p>\n


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THE TERM HARDSCRABBLE FARM WAS INVENTED TO DESCRIBE OUR FAMILY<\/div>\n
FARM IN THE DAYS WHEN MAKING A LIVING FARMING WAS VERY DIFFICULT.<\/div>\n
TODAY IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE ON A 25 ACRE FARM LIKE THIS\u2026ALL SWAMPS<\/div>\n
AND STONEY FIELDS.   BUT GRANDMA LOUISA FREEMAN AND GRANDPA<\/div>\n
EDWARD FREEMAN MANAGED TO MAKE A LIVING AND RAISE TWO CHILDREN.<\/div>\n
\u2026AND ENJOY THEIR LIVES.<\/div>\n

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ALAN SKEOCH                                                             ALAN  SKEOCH AND ARNOLD \u2018RED\u2019 SKEOCH<\/div>\n
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THIS IS ELSIE (FREEMAN) SKEOCH WITH GRANDSON KEVIN.  SHE WAS THE PERSON THAT INHERITED THE FARM  IN 1958 AND MANAGED<\/div>\n
TO PAY THE  TAXES AND THE UPKEEP AFTER GRANDMA AND GRANDPA DIED.  HOW SHE DID THAT IS A MYSTERY, FOR EVERY PENNY<\/div>\n
SHE EARNED WAS DONE WITH A SEWING MACHINE .. MUCH OF THE TIME IN SWEATSHOPS.   A GREAT WOMAN\u2026OUR MOTHER.<\/div>\n
DAD\u2019S MONEY WENT TO FEED HORSES AT RACETRACKS ACROSS ONTARIO AND NEW YORK STATE.  MOM WAS MUCH MORE CAREFUL.<\/div>\n
DAD WAS ONE OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS OF THIS WORLD.  LOVABLE BUT IRRESPONSIBLE.   THEIR MARRIAGE WAS A GOOD ONE.<\/div>\n
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MY BROTHER ERIC AND I WERE CITY BOYS REALLY BUT THE FREEMAN FARM<\/div>\n
WAS ALWAYS A PLACE WHERE WE WOULD BE WELCOMED\u2026INDEED , A<\/div>\n
PLACE WHERE WE WERE WANTED.   ANYTIME.  A SECOND HOME.<\/div>\n

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NOTE:  I HOPE  THESE PICS MAKE SENSE\u2026GIVE AN IMPRESSION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FREEMAN FARM AS ALL OF US TOOK OUR HUMAN JOURNEY EPISODE 356    OUR FARM IN 1958 AND WAY BACK IN 1914 WHEN IT WAS REALLY A FARM alan skeoch June 3, 2021 THE TERM HARDSCRABBLE FARM WAS INVENTED TO DESCRIBE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}