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Volume 8, Issue 2 - Feature #1173

i received my copy just fine

travis andrews - 2006-01-15 15:42:00

The Balmer Fund would like to have some old cistern stories--and photos (scanned) for their March, 2006 Issue of The Prairie Connection. Almost every farm had a cistern, it seems, and there must be a multitude of memories out there that ought to be documented for posterity. <br><br> Has anyone out there ever drank the water from a cistern? <br> Was it the best soft water for washing clothes and hair?<br> Did your parents, grandparents ever install a hand pump in the men's wash-up room so they could use it when they came in from the fields?<br> Ever wonder what ever happened to the chain of cistern cups that pulled the water up? <br><br> So many things were thrown away when they became obsolete. We never dreamed they would be of value again, both monetary and nostalgia-wise.<br><br> The Prairie Connection doesn't need anything until the first week in February on the cisterns, so there's time to get your cistern stories written down for posterity! <br><br> Did anyone ever fall in the cistern? <br> What did you do to keep the skunks, rabbits, etc., out?<br> What uses did you have for the water: garden? livestock? household? <br><br> Most young people today have no clue as to what a cistern is so we need to explain things in great detail for this NOW generation!<br><br> Send your cistern stories to The Prairie Connection - Email: wepreserve@balmerfund.org. Thanks for your help in preserving the prairies of our ancestors for the NOW & Future Generations.<br>

NW Okie (a.k.a. Linda Wagner) - 2006-01-14 22:47:28

Weather dogs! How cute! They sound like they know what they are barking about.

MWags - 2006-01-14 18:26:15

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