Tuesday 2 October 2012

Vintage Homesteading Video

I found this video yesterday while wasting time on Youtube. Its about a family who starts a homestead way out on the Prairies. The acting is very typical of a 1940's public service announcement,,,bad. But I still enjoy watching stuff like this from time to time.

I started wondering about how many families might have picked up and moved because of propaganda videos like this. Were they annoyed when the discovered the reality of moving to such a harsh environment? Obviously some families did very well as there decendants still inhabit the now successful farms today. 

Do you have a crazy choice awaiting you? Are you pining for a new beginning.  Odds are its probably going to be easier than what these guys had to go through so take heart and go for it. 


2 comments:

  1. OK - I am all over this... can we bring 2 years worth of Bridgehead coffee - just to keep us going... and maybe the iPad?

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  2. We would build the Bridgehead when we got there,,duh. Can't homestead without bridgehead.

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