1999
Gilly and Anne Palmer describe childhoods running wild in Tyringham, and the challenges of farming in the valley as adults in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, including sourcing water, multiple fires, and a 1950s cattle rustling that ended in murder. Topics include: farming: dairy, spring water, haying, riding, race horses, sheep, fencing, fishing salmon, fire: Red House barns, Canon Farm barns, moving Shaker Seed House, homeschooling, Tyringham Church: Anne as accompanist, piano, Christmas traditions: Shakespeare, cattle rustling: 1950s theft of Jerseys from the Red House, WWII: charity square dance “Bundles for Britain.”
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