Harvest Tales - North Central Kansas
Browse harvest stories submitted by Kansans for the online exhibit, Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest.
Click on a county to read its harvest stories, or scroll down to the list below. To submit your own harvest story, contact us at kshs.kansasmuseum@ks.gov.
Clay
- David Smith, "Time was reckoned as before or after harvest"
- William B. Thomas, Rattlesnake in a wheat bundle and Changing technology
Cloud
Sorry! We have no stories from this county.
Dickinson
- Evelyn Shetter, A noon meal and Evening on a threshing day
Ellsworth
- Adamek family, Harvest slide show of threshing scenes
Jewell
Sorry! We have no stories from this county.
Lincoln
- Edward W. Merz, An embarrassing mealtime incident and "To me it was a horrifying experience"
Mitchell
- Carldon Broadbent, Harvest meals and breakdowns and repairs
- Greg German, poems entitled The 1st Day of Harvest, Lunch Time, and The Last Day of Harvest
- Marianne Metcalf, Harvest meals and "I started helping with harvest when I was eleven"
Osborne
- Eda Jean Hildredth, "In 1936 my parents were among the desperately poor farmers"
Ottawa
- Marie Brown, A 1911 photographic postcard of threshing
- Jagger family, 1980s photos of combines and the family eating dinner in the field
- Marjorie Miller & Melvin Zuker, A threshing story and photograph
- Anna Allison Peck, Harvest during World War II and Trapped in a straw stack
- Maxine Baker Windhorst, Driving the Model T Ford during harvest
Republic
Sorry! We have no stories from this county.
Russell
- H. B. Milberger, Three images of combining wheat in 1947
Saline
- Clayton Short, Selecting wheat varieties
- Louanne Short, "On family farms, the whole family comes together"
Smith
- Marjorie Maydew Bell, "Wheat Harvest," a poem
- Mildred Parker, "A Spark from a Tractor, 1919," a poem
Washington
Sorry! We have no stories from this county.
"Harvest Tales" is part of the online exhibit, Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest, developed by the Kansas Museum of History.
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