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Count your blessings…

A Day Of Thanksgiving (1951) –A classic, patriotic film about an American family who are unable to buy a Thanksgiving turkey… but they still have many things to be thankful for. 12 minutes.

Cooking the turkey…

Let’s Talk Turkey (1951) –How to cook a turkey and it’s uses in everyday cooking.

At the table…

Dining Together (ca. 1951) –Thanksgiving dining etiquette for young children.

Thanksgiving fun…

Beverley Hillbillies “Turkey Day”  –Thanksgiving fun with the Clampett family.

These videos may be watched online and/or downloaded to your computer. For more information, please see the Internet Archive help section.

Blessings,

Denese

If you have slow internet service, a download manager is very helpful. I use the free Orbit Downloader to schedule large and multiple files for downloading overnight.

Tags: free videos, Thanksgiving, turkey

“Deciverous…hardwoods. Coniverous…pines

-m r trees, m r!”

Tags: The Ol' Hermit

“Don’t go lookin’ fer snakes, if you do you’ll find ‘em ever’ time. Go on yer way, don’t worry ‘bout ‘em and 9 times outta 10 you’ll never see ‘em.”

Tags: snakes, The Ol' Hermit

After breaking the umpteenth pair of bootlaces this year:

“Ain’t nothin’ made right no more. When I was growin’ up, we used groundhog hide -groundhog hide makes the best bootlaces. We’d skin ‘im out and tack the hide up on the smokehouse; when we needed some laces we’d go cut us off a strip.”

“What’d we do with the rest of the groundhog? We eat ‘im!”

Tags: old-ways, The Ol' Hermit

Do you know what a wok is?

“You know what a wok is…a wok’s what you thwow at a wittle bitty wabbit.

You thwow a wittle wok at a wittle wabbit and a big wok at a big wabbit.”

Tags: The Ol' Hermit

“Whur’s the cornbread?!”

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Fourth of July Old Time Radio Shows –4 free MP3 downloads of old time radio Fourth of July episodes, from OTRCat.com.

• You Are There: “July 4th, 1776 Philadelphia” from March 21, 1948
• Calling All Cars: “July Fourth in a Radio Car” from July 4, 1934
• Meet The Meeks: “Planning a Company Picnic ” from July 3, 1948
• Our Miss Brooks: “July 4th Trip to Eagle Springs” from July 3, 1949

Adventure Ahead:  “A Tooth For Paul Revere” -originally aired on September 9, 1944. Free MP3 download from Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod.

The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere –free MP3 download from The Internet Archive (scroll down).

Journeys Into American History

Free MP3 downloads of four classic shows about events of 1776, from Journeys Into American History Podcasts.

• Journeys Into American History 27 1776: American Trail -Brave Flag
• Journeys Into American History 28 1776: American Trail -Dispatch to New York
• Journey’s Into American History 29 1776: Cavalcade of America -Gentleman From Paris
• Journey’s Into American History 30 1776:  Cavalcade of America -Declaration of Independence

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• More Fourth Of July Homeschooling/Educational Freebies
• Fourth Of July Freebies: Homeschooling/Educational, Recipes And Crafts
• Free Old Time Radio Shows

Happy listening,

Denese

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Tags: American history, free audio, free mp3s, holidays, old-time-radio

Did you grow a lot of cabbage this year and don’t know what to do with it all?

Here is a simple recipe for kraut (sauerkraut), from my sister-in-law, Aunt Susie.

Canned Kraut

Chop up your cabbage.

Pack in quart jars –not too tight.

Fill each jar with hot water (Aunt Susie just uses hot water from the tap).

Add 2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. sugar and 1 tsp. vinegar to each jar.

Put the lids on and set in a cool, dark place for 9 days.

Store in your cupboard.

Aunt Susie said, “You’re supposed to wait 21 days before you eat the kraut, but we never do, and it’s best to make kraut when the signs are in upper part of the body –in the head is best. Don’t never make kraut when the signs are in the bowels.”

Please note: This recipe doesn’t call for a boiling water bath but the USDA does recommend one.

Here are a couple more recipes:

About.com Southern Food: Homemade Sauerkraut

Wild Fermentation: Making Sauerkraut is Easy!

Also see:

Making Fermented Pickles and Sauerkraut

It’s said “When life gives you lemons…make lemonade.”

So, “When life gives you cabbage…make kraut!”

Happy canning,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, old stuff, preserving food, recipes

I don’t know how I missed this one!

Memorial Day Memories from Homeschool Radio Shows

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Blessings,

Denese

Tags: American history, education freebies, free audio, holidays

Homeschool Radio Shows

Don’t forget to download this week’s free radio program from Homeschool Radio Shows –there are two this week!

Robin Hood & The Black Knight’s Challenge -the legendary Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest comes to the aid of a boy who must answer the dreaded Black Knight’s challenge to joust to the death.

The Pirates & The Parrot -young Juan Hernandez loses his pet parrot to a theiving band of pirates. Can he and his father retrieve not only his pet, but also the fabled pirate treasure hidden on the pirates’ island headquarters?

Kiddie Records Weekly

Another great place to get free children’s recordings is Kiddie Records Weekly.

You’ll have to check them out, they have tons of old children’s recordings from the mid 40s through the early 50s –the “Golden Age” of children’s records.

You can download and listen to:

• Walt Disney stories –Rob Roy, Robin Hood,
• Mel Blanc cartoons –Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck
• Dr Seuss stories
• Western Stories told by Roy Rogers, Cowboy Tex Ritter
• Classic children’s fiction
• Space stories
• Much more!

There are close to 200 recordings in all and every week a new one is added –plus they’re free!

Go take a trip down memory lane and introduce your children to some classic audio at Kiddie Records Weekly.

Related Posts:

• Free Old Time Radio Shows

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: children, education freebies, free audio