Glenwood Peters

Wouldn’t you like to go back to the “Good Ole days?” It was the days when ice cream was 5 cents and there was penny candy.  Life seemed to be easier then, when it was small town living and everyone knew everyone and I mean everyone. There was nothing that you could do in a small town that didn’t get heard by everyone in the town.

Glenwood Peters grew up on a small farm in the 1930’s. He learned that you need to work hard to appreciate what you get out of life. He said, “If you didn’t have money, then you just didn’t go anywhere and back then there wasn’t really anywhere to go.” Glenwood grew up during the Great Depression on a farm near Benson, IL. Farming back then was a little different than it is today. There was not all the big technology that there is today or the intensive research on the genes of our crops. The information was just not available at the time.

They used horses not only for transportation but also for farming. They got their first tractor back in 1935. Their farm was very small since it was just some rented land that they could afford at the time, so he also decided to help out the neighbor for money.

Back then because there was no technology that helps out like it does today, they had to work extra hard to get all the chores done. Glenwood stayed to help his family with the farm but also worked a few nights a week to help bring money in to support his family. As technology got stronger and easier to get a hold of, things got a little easier on the farm just in the fact of the extra horse power.

Things are so different than back in the 1930’s. things have gotten better in the terms of technology and the enhancements of genes in crops. So here’s my question, do you think we could go back to no technology and only use ourselves and horses like they did back in the ole days???