MaryJane’s Cluck
November
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Monthly Sisterhood Newsletter
... where the braggin’ begins!
2011
Life made us FRIENDS, MaryJanesFarm made us SISTERS!
CONTENTS Hello from Sister #1 ................. 1 Each Other ............................... 8 Farm Kitchen .......................... 10 Garden Gate ........................... 12 Stitching & Crafting ................. 14 Make It Easy .......................... 16 Outpost ................................. 22 Cleaning Up ........................... 24 The Farm Scoop...................... 26 Farmgirl Chatter ...................... 28 Sisterhood Specials ................. 32
{ H EL L O F RO M S IST E R #1 } with MaryJane For our newcomers and especially for those who enjoy earning Merit Badges, I thought I’d re-run a story I wrote about the inspirational Annie Oakley. Following on pages 4–7 are instructions for turning your Merit Badges into jewelry.
Annie Up, Sisters! Always on the prowl for something playful, I couldn’t resist displaying my Farmgirl Sisterhood Merit Badges the same way Annie Oakley shared her prowess.
Sisterhood News ..................... 34 Merit Badges .......................... 38 Farmerettes & Young Cultivators .. 42 Magazines, Books & More ........ 48
A household name when I was growing up, Annie, born in Ohio in 1860, is one of the best-known figures of the Old West. But what did I really KNOW about the back story of the famous Miss Oakley, other than whenever I hit a target dead-center, my father, a man of many guns, would say, “Good job, Annie!” Vaguely, I knew she was a skilled sharpshooter who traveled the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the century. What I didn’t know was that at the age of 9, her Pennsylvania Quaker father died and she and her siblings were sent to an orphanage (known back then as “the county poor farm”). She was able to rejoin her mother at the age of 13, hunting quail and rabbits for food, something she’d been doing since she was 6 years old. Like a modern-day entrepreneur, Annie talked local restaurants and hotels into buying the game she shot. By the time she was 15, she had paid off the mortgage on her mother’s farm. Already becoming famous by the age of 21, she signed up for a sharpshooter contest against the traveling show marksman Francis Butler. When he couldn’t best her, they instead married.
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