Historic Hood River
What’s That?
4-11-2018
Notes
I don’t think this is anywhere near Hood River, but I can’t resist unusual farming equipment. Can someone tell is what we’re looking at?
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nels
A sled of some kind? Used to pull hay out to the field in winter? The bigger question is where is this – so very flat. I think of the south.
L.E.
I can’t tell if those are shocks or bales of hay in the field.
The piece of equipment with wheels, in the center of the photo, is a seeder. The small piece in front, and to the right was pushed by hand for weeding the garden and making furrows for planting seed. Not sure about the piece of wheeled equipment in front. Possibly a hay rake. All of my guesses have a question mark.
I know this looks like prairie country, but if you were standing in the middle of Government Island in the Columbia River, it would look like this. I think it must be river bottom ground somewhere. Especially since it looks like a good crop of hay.
nels
Arthur, do you have anymore information to salve our curiosity. It looks definitely like a water flattened place so make me think of the South.
Arthur
nels, this is from the Wonsyld collection which includes material from Yacolt, Washington. I don’t know that area but L.E. may be able to fill us in.
L.E.
Definitely not Yacolt country. Could be down the Lewis River from Yacolt, in Woodland, WA.
But, I looked up some photos of Lamberton, Minnesota, where the Wonsyld family came from. I am pretty sure that must be where this photo was taken.
Home to the Bluestem prairie grass along the Cottonwood River.
http://www.flickriver.com/places/United+States/Minnesota/Lamberton/recent/
Longshot
From the left center, I believe we have a wagon of some sort, a seeder, a horse drawn plow and then to the right we have some setup for handing hay or grain. There is also a low range of mountains in the back ground that make me think this photo might be somewhere in the Goldendale area or in the Yakima basin.
Barbara Parsons
We had our waterloo with 4-H sponge cakes, not angel-food. My sister Dorothy was in 4-H cooking, led by Mrs. Gilmouth, wife of the sheriff. The day beforevthe county fair Dorothy, my sister, made three or four sponge cakes, and one rose really high and golden, so she chose that one to submit for her entry. The Gilmouths came by in the morning and took it to the fairgrounds. When our family got to the fair we rushed to the "champion" section of the sponge cake table. Hers wasn’t there. We looked in the blue ribbon section, then the red, but still saw not a crumb of hers. We finally found it with the sad, thin, or burned cakes, with white "exhibitor" ribbons, indicating that they had at least showed up. Dorothy’s cake was a catastrophe–totally flat on one side. We wanted to grab it and hide it. Then along came Leader Mrs. Gilmouth, wringing her hands. "Dorothy, I am so sorry!" She said. "On the way to the fair my husband sat on your cake!"
Barbara Parsons
The above was supposed to be on the page with the 4-H boy and his exhibit.