Word: homesteaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flurry of speculation and objection directed mainly against the destruction of the historic structure greeted the first reports that the 120 year-old homestead was to be replaced by the new undergraduate library. Its preservation is insured by the present plans, which call for a complete renovation and subsequent use as temporary quarters for such guests as visiting professors and lecturers. The service wing will be removed, and the building will be turned so that the colonnade will face on Quincy Street...
...Elda bought the old Weaver homestead, which had passed out of the family. The early years were hard, but the Kuesters pulled through, says Gus, "by chickens, hogs and going without." They pulled through also thanks to the patient devotion of Elda Kuester. Over the years hogs paid the mortgage (today the land is worth $225 an acre), and the Kuesters received the final patent of ownership: the neighbors began to call the old Weaver place the Kuester farm. There were born Dale and a pretty daughter, Shirley, now 19, who sometimes acts as her father's official secretary...
Since then, Big Lick, and Pastor Smathers have built other things: a small health center which now houses a resident nurse, study clubs to plan and carry out better farming techniques, a cooperative homestead plan to encourage young couples to stay in Big Lick. The state college and TVA have selected Big Lick as a demonstration area to dramatize soil conservation...
Sirs: Is it not strange that the same people who were so recently giving their sons and moral support to a bloody war so we might have peace, have now begun to cry about their homestead rights when their land is needed to house the symbol of peace? JOHN T. CROWE, M.D. St. Louis
Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...