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Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix


Nebraska Agriculture in the Classroom

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Elsie Lee Splear

Growing Seasons

Growing Seasons is a non-fiction picture book about farm life at the turn of the last century, as told through the eyes of Elsie Lee Splear [1906-1996] and the paintings of artist Ken Stark. Nearly everything was done by hand-washing clothes with homemade lard soap, canning fruits and vegetables, butchering meat, and much more- before the advent of rural electricity, indoor plumbing and central heating. 

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Elsie Lee Splear
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