I need to return to a simple livestyle ....

Less than a hundred years ago, the small farm was the King . And if folks didnt  live on a farm, at least they had chickens in their backyards and grew their own vegetables.( look up Norveft Pa. I lived there at a time in my life)  Name: 

Norvelt

Region: 
Laurel Highlands/Southern Alleghenies

County: 
Westmoreland

Marker Location: 
LR 6406 Mt. Pleasant Road, on V.F.D. property, Norvelt

Dedication Date: 
September 8, 2002

Behind the Marker 

Norvelt, Westmoreland County, Pa., circa 1959.

In 1933, as part of the sweeping National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), Congress allocated $25 million for the creation of "subsistence homesteads" for dislocated industrial workers. Over the course of the program's eleven-year history, the federal government seeded nearly 100 planned, cooperative communities. Norvelt, in southwestern Pennsylvania, was the fourth.

The idea for the program owed much to a "back to the land" movement, popularized by American idealists who promoted small-scale subsistence farming as an antidote to the economic exploitation and alienation of modern life. In the 1920s, the idea gained currency among a wide variety of progressive organizations, including church-related groups such as the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

But then big business came on the scene, and we all got office jobs. And I went to work, too, because why should men have all the fun?

So I got dressed up , dropped the kids off at the public school and  daycare, spent hours in the car, sat at a desk for even longer hours, took half an hour at noon and raced to a nearby fast food place. worked at night at Restaurants  and thought I was having fun.......

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