Do you remember gardening as a child? It was a family project often for pride and more often from necessity. This was long before our current First Lady Michelle Obama planted a new White House Garden to encourage nutritious eating.
Abigail Adams thought it was important to have a garden to feed the President during those long Washington winters! During the First World War our First Lady, Edith Wilson and then during the Second World War First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt also encouraged all Americans to plant a garden to easy the issue of rationing in what they called Victory Gardens.
Your Versailles Area Historical Society is planning on recreating those by gone days of gardening and canning in their Gallery Display “From the Good Earth” featuring an early 1900 kitchen and showing off canning and cookware from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s.
We need your help in finding gardening, canning and cooking items to help create our display. From preparing vegetables and fruits to making sausage and canned meats, we need your help!
We will need these items on loan from Memorial Day until early August when we change our display for autumn.
If you can help us by loaning items, please call Alice Huffman at 526-3953 or Deb Pohl at 423- 1106 for details and drop off times and locations.
Abigail Adams thought it was important to have a garden to feed the President during those long Washington winters! During the First World War our First Lady, Edith Wilson and then during the Second World War First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt also encouraged all Americans to plant a garden to easy the issue of rationing in what they called Victory Gardens.
Your Versailles Area Historical Society is planning on recreating those by gone days of gardening and canning in their Gallery Display “From the Good Earth” featuring an early 1900 kitchen and showing off canning and cookware from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s.
We need your help in finding gardening, canning and cooking items to help create our display. From preparing vegetables and fruits to making sausage and canned meats, we need your help!
We will need these items on loan from Memorial Day until early August when we change our display for autumn.
If you can help us by loaning items, please call Alice Huffman at 526-3953 or Deb Pohl at 423- 1106 for details and drop off times and locations.