Oh wow - sorry it's taken me a minute to get to this. For some reason didn't get a notification you'd left another comment. Will read your grandfather's poem tonight - really looking forward to it. Thanks so much for sending it through! 🖤
"Was a poet too. He was 9 at the time of the story. Chris has the original. Not sure if it was a steam threshing machine, or one powered by horses on a treadmill."
In the poem he talks about steam threshers. I have a picture his wife (my grandmother) took, showing a horse-driven thresher. It was taken with a Kodak Brownie camera, and I have the negative.
Gorgeous poems and yours is just the tip of the poem mountains! What a view!
Yeah - these really have something huh. Aw thanks so much Pilgrim, really appreciate it. 🖤
Here is a link to my Grandfather's poem.
http://sullivanweb.me/mystuff/Douro%20Threshing/A%20Douro%20Threshing.pdf
Chris
Oh wow - sorry it's taken me a minute to get to this. For some reason didn't get a notification you'd left another comment. Will read your grandfather's poem tonight - really looking forward to it. Thanks so much for sending it through! 🖤
"has the dark sobbed on your shoulder" - love this
So goooood! 🖤
My grandfather wrote a poem about the threshing, many many years ago. I will send it to you if you want.
Would love to read it. Probably slightly outside my main timeframe (pre-1930s) but for sure - would love to read it regardless. Cheers for the offer!
It’s probably right in there, Threshing machines were mentioned by name.
I’d be better off by email. chris@sullivanweb.me
don't know why
keep returning I
to eye baffling poems
your teeth
left a mark
by the way! 🖤
Same! There's definitely something about these poems. Love the way you've put it: eye baffling! Aww - thanks Fotini - means a lot. 🖤
Here's the horse-drawn saw...
http://dadspix.sullivanweb.me/germania-and-environs#&gid=1&pid=138
Chris
My brother Mike writes:
"Was a poet too. He was 9 at the time of the story. Chris has the original. Not sure if it was a steam threshing machine, or one powered by horses on a treadmill."
In the poem he talks about steam threshers. I have a picture his wife (my grandmother) took, showing a horse-driven thresher. It was taken with a Kodak Brownie camera, and I have the negative.
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