30 Things Farm Kids Were Handed in the 1950s Without a Word of Instruction

In 1953 nobody sat a farm child down and explained anything. The pocketknife came out of a grown man's trousers and went into yours. The Aermotor windmill you slept through for eighteen years woke the whole house the night it stopped. What was your ring on the party line, how many longs and how many shorts? Or the year the line finally reached your road? #FarmKids #1950s #GrewUpOnAFarm #FarmLife #RuralAmerica