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Grape harvest at Jacob Schadler's farm.

Color postcard of "Intensive Farming On Grand Traverse Peninsula." Two gentlemen are in the middle of crops.

Two men wearing simple clothes standing in a field, holding scythes.

Five people, two men and three woman, dressed in formal wear in front of the John Rokos farm.

A woman wearing a dress and apron, alongside a young girl wearing a similar dress, standing together in the doorway of the John Lautner farm house, on M-72 west of Traverse City.

Unidentified crop in field.

Deep dive of some of the history surrounding stories that are included in the coloring/activity book "Once Upon a Peninsula" (based on the memories of Tim Carroll from the 1940's growing up on Old Mission Peninsula). Includes four 3rd graders from…

Carolyn Gay Taft (1873-1952), was the owner of a small cherry farm on Old Mission Peninsula in the early 1900’s. While she spent her summers on the Peninsula, her primary job as a teacher at the Illinois State School for the Deaf required hired…

Carolyn Gay Taft (1873-1952), was the owner of a small cherry farm on Old Mission Peninsula in the early 1900’s. While she spent her summers on the Peninsula, her primary job as a teacher at the Illinois State School for the Deaf required hired…

Carolyn Gay Taft (1873-1952), was the owner of a small cherry farm on Old Mission Peninsula in the early 1900’s. While she spent her summers on the Peninsula, her primary job as a teacher at the Illinois State School for the Deaf required hired…