Franklin couple pitches
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Barbara
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and Robert Woods of Fannettsburg are one of the 18 core couples
in the American Farm Project now in its third and final year.
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BY RUTH ANN BENEDICT
Staff Correspondent
FANNETTSBURG -.“You
are involved directly. You
lead their discussion and
help bring out their feelings.
These feelings are what are
most important.”
These were the words of
Robert and Barbara Woods
of Fannettsburg when they
spoke of the programs and
people they are involved
with in the American Farm
project.
As they sat in their cozy
farmhouse nestled along Rt.
75 in the Path Valley of
Franklin County, with their
youngest of eight children
dose by, it was evident that
the Woods’, one of the 18 core
farm couples in the
American Farm Project,
value highly their rural
community setting, then
roots, and the agricultural
American way of living.
Outside the rain fell
steadily. Inside a wood stove
was burning, making the
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damp and chill vanish with
its warm friendly glow.
The stone wall behind the
stove was built with rocks,
picked off of the Woods’ own
fields.
Yes, it was apparent that
rural America was of great
importance to the Woods.
Perhaps for that very reason
alone, they became involved
in the American Farm
Project because rural
America is what it’s all
about.
There is much enthusiasm
in Barbara’s voice as she
speaks and her enthusiasm
is well founded for Barbara
was involved in the
preplanning stages of the
Project.
The project undertakes the
responsibility of stressing a
humanitarian viewpoint
towards agricultural
community issues. The
Projects’ four themes
land, rural image, rural
people & community, and
economics educates and
brings to light the deep
rooted feelings of both city
and rural people. The
project enables them to look
across the fence to the other
side and recognize how the
other half lives.
Barbara recalled the day
Victor Ray, the National
Farmers Union’s Director of
the Department of Field
Services, called her to talk
over program ideas.
“Victor Ray knew that I
was interested in educating
people in the humanities and
in agricultural America,
Barbara said.
“We got together, ex
changed ideas and Victor
asked if Bob and I would be
interested in the
Project.
agreed.”
Victor Ray and the
National Farmers Union
applied to the National
Endowment for the
Humanities for the planning
grant.
The National Endowment
for the Humanities had
funded metropolitan
historical museums and
opera houses stressing the
humanities, but it had never
funded a project for farm
communities.
In August of 1977, the grant
of |38,000 was awarded. The
foundation of the American
Farm Project had begun.
Early in 1978, the Project
grant of $150,000 was ap
proved and eighteen core
farm couples, plus one
humanist and one of the
Farmers Union staff per
couple, gathered for the first
time at Southwest State
University m Marshall,
Minnesota.
Southwest State was the
first rural college institution
to be re-programmed with a
rural theme in rural
humanities, instead of the
sciences.
At Southwest State, the
core group attended a
weeklong folk festival to
introduce them to the
humanities.
The rest of the time was
spent in training seminars
during which staff members
at Southwest State presented
programs on the four
Project themes.
“We were shown different
ways to get groups we were
working with to let out their
feelings on the issues we
presented.” And, as the
Woods said before, these
feelings are what are most
important.
Some of the groups they
have worked with are the
Fannett-Metal High School,
Path Valley Lions Club,
Farmers Union Youth Camp
(second to twelfth grade),
Farmers Union national
Convention and the Path
Valley Young Farmers
Association.
At the Farmers Union
Youth Camp, Barbara and
Robert presented a slide set
paralleling the lives of city
children to farm and rural
area children.
Barbara said she
remembered one child in
particular stated after the
presentation that he was
glad that he lived on a farm.
When asked why this
youngster stated “because I
know how to work”.
This program presenting
the cross-section of lives.
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