A Poem for My Dad
My mother wrote poetry throughout her life, some mediocre and some quite poignant. She wrote the following poem about her father, Will Fitzsimons. Although it’s far from the best she’d written it did describe her feeling toward her father. It’s easy to see that she...
A Salute to All Farm Workers
Society’s most important function is feeding its people. The United States does its share and more. U.S. farmers are some of the most productive workers in the world. The United State’s 2.1 million farms compose 2% of our labor force (1) and its 2.5 to 3 million...
For the Love of a Teacher
By Harold William Thorpe—author of The O’Shaughnessy Chronicles, a farm family’s epic four book history and the Good Friends Storybooks for children. Teachers develop America’s most valuable resource—its children. For the well-being of our nation we must fully...
15 Life Lessons I Learned from Family-Farmers
The following anecdotes illustrate numerous ways my family-farmer relatives showed kindness to me, and positively influenced work habits, attitudes, and my view about how to treat others. How I admired these adults, even as a child, enough to want to learn from them...
A Tribute to the Family Farmer
By Harold William Thorpe—author of The O’Shaughnessy Chronicles, a farm family’s epic four-book history. I learned life’s most important lessons from family farmers. The farmers I knew best were family members, but those I extol here could be any family-farmer. I...
