Daily Archives: May 4, 2011

Labor Day festivities

Posted on May 4, 2011 by danforth

May 1st is Labor Day in this country, and is celebrated with a day off and a parade and a feast of some sort. We were invited to the government party “downtown”. It was a raucous beer drinking and dancing …

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Teenage boys’ afternoon pasttime?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by danforth


These boys want to earn a little spending money, so they make, yes, brooms! They go out in fields and pick handfuls of wild grasses and clean them up a little and tie them together at the handle with thin …

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