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September 1939. "Kimberley farm, Jasper County, Iowa. Corn fight between Margaret and Howard Kimberley." Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
I’ve commented before how I was never shown or taught how to throw properly, as boys were. (Happily, my daughter was taught how, by a woman gym teacher.) See how young Miss Kimberley is flicking from the wrist. If she wound up fully from the shoulder and let fly, young Master Kimberley would be cringing even more.
The spacing of the corn plants is very wide by modern standards.
I utterly love reading, hearing, learning about the lives of young souls in our country -- especially when they were born around the same time as my 90-something mother.
This is what happens when you send the kids out to de-tassel the corn; it's a really tedious job, and they just get into mischief.
Margaret Kimberly Fisher 7 March, 1925 - 4 February, 2016
Howard Kimberly 23 August 1926 - 16 June, 1973
I hope they had a happy life.
Put the corn down now! People are starving in China!
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