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Martha Philbeck La Fontaine, Indiana. USA. www.homeofthegoldenpaws.com Ph: 765 981 2334, [email protected] She is an avid photographer, a wonderful artist, a great cook, caring about animal life and a lover of the Freedom that Life on a farm offers. The open spaces and the natural air is all she has ever wanted and worked hard for and has it now. As an author, she has done books on Wildlife on her farm, Monarch Butterflies, Canadian Goose and to leave something of the old life of her grandmother’s time, she has collected recipes of more than 100 years ago and made two books out of them. To this collection she is painting scenes from the life on farms when there was no electricity even. Pages could be written about her. She raises prize winning Golden retrievers. She is one of most warm hearted persons you will meet.

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Martha Philbeck

La Fontaine, Indiana. USA. www.homeofthegoldenpaws.com

Ph: 765 981 2334, [email protected]

She is an avid photographer, a wonderful artist, a great cook,

caring about animal life and a lover of the Freedom that Life

on a farm offers. The open spaces and the natural air is all she has ever wanted and worked hard for and has it now.

As an author, she has done books on Wildlife on her farm,

Monarch Butterflies, Canadian Goose and to leave something

of the old life of her grandmother’s time, she has collected

recipes of more than 100 years ago and made two books out of them. To this collection she is painting scenes from the life

on farms when there was no electricity even. Pages could be

written about her. She raises prize winning Golden retrievers.

She is one of most warm hearted persons you will meet.

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A farm scene from 1930s. Washing up: This was the back yard on wash

day. Grandmother had a wash tub and wash board that she scrubbed her clothes on and then they were hung on the line. We never had a bathroom but had to make the trip to the outhouse. It was a cold walk in winter and you did not tarry long.

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375 garner rd:

This is the home where I lived. When my brother was born they added on to the back side of the house making it a 2 story. The rugs were carried out and hung on a line and beat with a wire whip. My mother lived on this farm for 70 years. Electricity came to the farm the year before I was born. They got a telephone in the 1930"s.

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Butchering

This was butchering day on the farm. My grandmother always kept the fire going to melt the fat into lard. She only wore a heavy sweater and would wrap it around her arms. I like to paint pictures of early farm life. I grew up on a farm and live on a farm now. I still can food the way that my grandmother did.

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learning to sew

This is a self portrait of me learning to sew. The sewing machine was bought in 1906 by my grandmother when she got married. The chair belonged to her mother. Growing up on a farm with no close neighbors, children learned basic homemaking skills to survive. I still make most of my clothes; have taught sewing, quilting and other handcrafts.

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School snow scene My grandparents went to a one room school and this is a scene of children playing at recess.

Going Fishing

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Digital Photograph of the Sky on the farm after a storm.

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Digital picture of a sunset on the farm

Golden retriever pups.

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The Canadian Goose Family that comes regularly to breed at the farm.

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Take-off. Mr heron is master of his dominion.

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Jim gets a shave. Literally, the duckling went click click and we later found that he had given Jim a shave.

A lovely photograph from the fields.