by Donna Fennewald
"In the summer, mom would send me "over the hill" to Grandma's to help her with house work. Uncle Paul and Uncle Hubert spent many hours in the fields, using "horsepower" and manual labor. Hard work necessitated people ate 3 main meals (breakfast, dinner, and supper) and a mid-morning and mid-afternoon lunch. For lunch, Grandma would pack up lard sandwiches, sprinkled with cinnamon & sugar - on fresh slices of home-made bread, and send them out to the field where the men were working. She also sent a glass jar of coffee and her soft cookies to round out the lunch. I would walk the lunch pail out to the field where they would be working, and they would stop work to eat lunch. When I wasn't there, Uncle Hubert would come to the house and get the lunch.
It seems Clara Sidney may have helped me with getting the lunch out to the field on some occasions."
Donna
