Channel One – The Unusual

A piece of farm equipment in use doing deep plowing, possibly after cotton harvest to bury the stalks.

A tractor demonstration and the gathering of farmers to see the new equipment.

Crop spraying by airplane.


Next dirt roads to travel:

This is one of the most culturally important attributed , all pitching in to help a neighbor. “If one of us falls behind, we all fall behind.”
Community Planting for a Sick Neighbor

Crop dusting expanded reach. Aerial spraying meant fields were large enough to justify it. It introduces chemicals entering the system on a large scale.
Crop Spraying

New equipment wasn’t bought sight-unseen; it was demonstrated. Farmers gathered for the demonstration because capital investment was serious and mistakes were costly.
Tractor demonstration, farmers gathered

Most of the images on this website are individual frames from the 8mm home movies of Hugh and Oneta Sanders, who lived in this area for their entire lives. The purchase of a movie camera, the filming and processing of these films were a rare extravagance for them. Originally, these frames are about the size of a pencil eraser, and are magnified far beyond their original intention I am happy that they left us these artifacts from the past to document their lives of this time and place.

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