Yesterday, and today

Thursday, March 2, 2017

May and Babe, Bob Haag's team of Percheron mares, pull a hayrack loaded with Southwest Elementary students around the school Wednesday afternoon during the school's celebration of Nebraska's 150th birthday. Second grader Juliet Critchfield pondered why shaking a baby food jar of cream turns it to butter, as Virginia Grafton of Lebanon promised in a recreation of a pioneer woman's kitchen and the chores -- like milking the cow and churning butter -- that would have been required throughout any normal day on a Nebraska farm. Marilyn Goodenberger of McCook explained her hobby of knitting, a centuries' old craft of turning a strand of yarn into a garment. Marilyn's modern-day touch? Following her instructions and knit-and-purl pattern on her IPad tablet computer.

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