
{"id":6266,"date":"2009-06-25T06:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2009-06-25T06:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:15:46","slug":"victory-garden-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/06\/25\/victory-garden-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory Garden, 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/resizedvictory-garden1943.jpg\"  width=\"150\" height=\"113\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>by Jock Lauterer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back during \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Great War,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d folks were encouraged to raise their own vegetables \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Victory Gardens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they were called. James L. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but I should let Jim tell the story: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6It was taken in 1943. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who took it. I believe it was one of the following: CCC, WPA or some other of Roosevelt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To that I can only add, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What is old is new again,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as any trip to the Carrboro Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market will prove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jock Lauterer Back during \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Great War,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d folks were encouraged to raise their own vegetables \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Victory Gardens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they were called. James L. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6270,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}