Category: traditional values

Military Parents Face ‘World’s Craziness’ by Plotting Farm to Grow Own Food, Homeschool Their Kids

Two U.S. Army parents from Oregon have taken their lessons from the military and applied them to resourceful living on their own 12-acre farm. As self-proclaimed “all-American homesteaders,” they grow their own food, homeschool their children, and are teaching the whole family to prepare for any eventuality. Christina Root, 37, is from “all over” but…


‘I Had to Become Feminine’: Businesswoman, 42 and Single, Breaks Down, Ditches Feminism to Find Husband

Lisa Stingley was supposed to be happy. An accomplished career woman with a headhunting firm in Washington, she was like a superstar in some people’s books. There’s “a glamor” to women working outside the home, she says. Yet weirdly the feminist values Stingley once venerated—for garnering success, a genuine sense of accomplishment—suddenly rang hollow. Something…


Cowboy Realist Paints Western Ranch Life in Glorious Oil Color, Tells How He Learned Art, Lived Off Grid

Setting the mood for a cowboy painting, 65-year-old New Mexico artist Tim Cox begins mounting a smoothly primed board on easel, and, paintbrush in hand, applies ever-so-thinly diluted washes of lightly pigmented tones of oil and spirits. This is how a Western realist oil painting starts. He masses-in main shapes first, fuzzy blobs, no details…


Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: Holding the Fort

This is the 16th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…


Artist Colors Streets in Spain With Elegantly Embroidered Floral Works of Art: ‘My Mother Taught Me’

The ancient art of embroidery—like a thread through history—dates back to the dawn of human civilization. For as long as clothes have existed, so have mending and sewing been needed; their techniques have changed surprisingly little. Mothers and grandmothers throughout ages, and in most cultures, have passed down the art of embroidery to daughters and granddaughters….


VIDEO: Michigan Dad Shows How Real Maple Syrup Is Made With Traditional Tree-Tapping Method—And Goes Viral

This delightful dad has risen to internet fame after demonstrating the ancient and fascinating process of tapping maple trees for homemade maple syrup in his own backyard. John Driscoll, 35, decided to document his experience with a short video in the hope a few dozen people would find it as cool as he does. After…


Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: No Crown for Me

This is the 15th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…


Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: True Courage

This is the 14th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…


How to Dress Like a Gentleman—or Gentlewoman—From an 1880s Manual on Etiquette and Good Manners

TO dress well requires good taste, good sense and refinement. A woman of good sense will neither make dress her first nor her last object in life. No sensible wife will betray that total indifference for her husband which is implied in the neglect of her appearance, and she will remember that to dress consistently…


Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: The Seven Sticks

This is the 13th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…