Old Times Are Gone For Field Hands

Archive

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Whitesbog Preservation Trust

Name/Title

Old Times Are Gone For Field Hands

Entry/Object ID

1984.1.37

Scope and Content

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Author: Leonard H. Gashel Summary: Mr. Gashel interviewed veteran blueberry/cranberry pickers at Whitesbog. The "old timers" compared the current community life in the migrant workers housing complex known as Florence with the way it was several decades prior. Electricity replaced kerosene lamps; transistor radios and television entertained instead of accordions and banjos and Italian folk songs. There are two interesting pictures. A lone woman walks the lane in Florence in the rain and a 12 yr old boy among empty blueberry crates.

Collection

Whitesbog Heritage Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Article

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects