Like everyone else, I had forgot about Gregg's shorthand- didn't mention it in my post below about things that had become obsolete.
My mother had been a "stay at home Mom" while us kids were growing up, but in 1959, we were all in school, and oldest sister was old enough to babysit when we came home from school, so Mom decided to go back to work, as a legal secretary, to help with some additional income for the struggling dairy farm.
She needed to brush up on her shorthand- so it was decided that I would do my homework "orally"- read everything and do everything aloud, and she would do the shorthand for it. She sat quietly in the corner, taking shorthand, while I did my homework. Didn't matter what I said, she took it down- I took to making smart-alecky editorial comments about the mysterious lady in the corner, and she would smile but just took it down, never a comment. It worked great- after a couple of months, she took the test and passed, and I could go back to figgerin' in my head.
My wife was the daughter of a male chauvinist lawyer, who thought she would never be able to do anything beyond being a secretary. Guess he didn't realize that a girl could be good lookin' and smart, at the same time. She took shorthand in high school, in 1965, and I don't know how much longer they taught it. She became a dental hygienist, makes about triple what a secretary makes. But believe it or not, she can still take shorthand!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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