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Chicken
Posted by
Jennifer Whiteman
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24 January 2011
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One of our retired missionaries just sent in some old photos from their family's time at Nyack - what was formerly known as the Missionary Training Institute. Aside from their regular studies, a handful of students worked for the college...probably to help supplement the tuition fee. (According to the Missionary Training Institute Catalogue from 1918, room and board was $200 for the whole school year...and tuition was a whopping $20!)
As I was glancing through old faces from the 1910s, there was a series of photos that captured the kitchen staff hard at work. In our day and age of processed everything, it's hard for me to imagine a time when this was normal! I guess this could have been considered 'training' for the mission field as some of our early missionaries surely had to work at least this hard to prepare their food.
As I was glancing through old faces from the 1910s, there was a series of photos that captured the kitchen staff hard at work. In our day and age of processed everything, it's hard for me to imagine a time when this was normal! I guess this could have been considered 'training' for the mission field as some of our early missionaries surely had to work at least this hard to prepare their food.
My mother told me how as late as the 1950s, some families still raised and slaughtered chickens for food. She told me how she and her mom had a mishap and cut a chicken's head a little too high up on the neck and the headless bird jumped up and ran away from them. They later noticed it scratching and "pecking" at grain along with the rest of the chickens as if noting was wrong. She also said that was when her family stopped raising chickens for the dinner table.