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Chapter 37— Music, Memory, and Fellowship on the Schmieder Home Place
Picture of a Schmieder gathering during the Depression years in the 1930s. Pictured in the...
Chapter 36 — The Hired Man on the Schmieder Farm: The Life of Henry Vollmer
Henry Vollmer (left) and Magdalena Beck (center) on the Schmieder farm, early 1930s, prior to...
Chapter 35 — For a Season: The Life of DeForest “Chrissy” Christ, Hired Man
Gravestone of DeForest “Chrissy” Christ (1899–1974). The Hired Man’s Room The hired men slept in...
Chapter 34 — The Outhouse Behind the House: Necessity and Order on the Schmieder Farm
A worn Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog hung within reach, its pages serving a second...
Chapter 33 — From Stream to Well: The Water of the Farm
The Tonawanda Creek, bordering what would become the Schmieder farm, was a steady source of...
Chapter 32 —The Setting of the Bone
Dr. John A. Kneeler (1889–1946), a physician in Attica, New York, who began his practice...
Chapter 30 — The Loan
Sarah Magdalena Mader Miller — Attica, New York, circa 1900–1910. Photographed in earlier years. During...
Chapter 29 — On Hall’s Hill
The Rise and Passing of Highland Hall Farm (Brainardhurst) King Segis Pontiac Konigen — The...
