Hopefully this will be a series of short samples comparing life in pioneer days with life nowadays.
This started for me years ago when I told my friends I would fit better in pioneer days—my values, work ethic, frugality, faith, would work there (like Homestead Farm in Elm Mott, TX today)—except for some basic survival skills like butchering animals, skills that didn’t get passed on to me from previous generations that got it.
However, my friends responded with, “Yeah, but the pioneers had to deal with life and death on a daily basis.”
It was actually a few years before I had this response, “Yes, the pioneers had to deal with life and death on a daily basis, and so do we—plus a lot of garbage they did not have.”
It does not take long to think of several examples.
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