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Victory Garden, 1943

Posted on June 25, 2009June 25, 2009 by Staff

by Jock Lauterer

Back during “The Great War,” folks were encouraged to raise their own vegetables — “Victory Gardens,” they were called. James L. “Jim” Stallings, a retired professor of agricultural economics from Auburn and Michigan State, who now calls Carrboro home, sent in this wonderful image of his mom in their Victory Garden on the family farm in Posey County, Indiana … but I should let Jim tell the story: “…It was taken in 1943. I don’t know who took it. I believe it was one of the following: CCC, WPA or some other of Roosevelt’s organizations. The person in the picture is my mother, Mayme Sarena Owens/Stallings. You can see some of our horses in the background and our lake. The lake had been built by the CCC in about 1937, and the REA found us with electricity in 1939. Of interest is a train passing through. That spur of the Illinois Central is now gone and the right-of-way is abandoned.” To that I can only add, “What is old is new again,” as any trip to the Carrboro Farmers’ Market will prove.

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