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When Tyler A. Whit more bought the Pratt homestead in 1939, he faced a situation-not uncommon to historians-of several different families claiming direct descent from the original "Village Blacksmith." Most convincing of these were some people bearing the respected Boston name of Hancock. Interested in authenticating the legend once and for all, Whit more supervised a minute scouring of the Cambridge archives and concluded that Dexter Pratt was the most logical hero of Longfellow's poem. One Torrey Hancock, whit more found, did build the house and operate the smithy; but he sold out to Pratt...
...National Catholic Rural Life Conference does for country Catholics. "The cure for Communism is to give a man a cow," says its executive secretary, Monsignor Luigi Ligutti. He told the Kansas City conferees about his group's efforts to increase people's ownership of productive property through homestead projects, farmers' cooperatives and small, decentralized industries...
...both brothers found the call of their old homestead and neighbors in Lancaster County too strong to resist. Says George: "They are plain folk but friendly and hospitable. Only thing is they put food on the table and you got to reach for it if you want any. Otherwise you don't get nothing. I guess that characterizes the Dutch around here...
...interesting, if not novel theme which the author has selected, but one which has been dealt with only lightly by her pen. After twenty years abroad, a wandering farmer's daughter returns to the old homestead, seeking relaxation and rebirth which she feels that getting back to the earth again can give her. She finds the old and sturdy stock has deteriorated. The oak has turned into an Oakie, and the cheap dance-hall, the installment-burdened car and mortgaged farm comprise the life of a people squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified...
...bore-some foursome has turned out to be "Four Mothers." Surprisingly enough, despite recent Hays' office laxity, all the mothers are married. So the plot centers about the very unexciting career of their father (Claude Rains), an orchestra conductor who gets neither sympathy nor symphonies until after the old homestead has been sold to the wreckers. Then he hits a streak of luck, conducts a poorly recorded concert, regains the old homestead, and leaves everybody happy--at least everybody on the screen...