“The Way We Worked In
Webster Parish”
Now On Display At The Dorcheat Historical Association
Museum
In conjunction with the traveling
Smithsonian Exhibit located at City Art Works, the Dorcheat Historical
Association Museum has a mural of Webster Parish called “The Way We Worked In
Webster Parish”. This mural features
pictures from Webster parish depicting different ways that area people have
worked through the earlier eras of time, including early logging and train
photographs. The exhibit also has a video
presentation featuring the depression era work conditions to add to the
display. The museum exhibit will be up
from Tuesday, January 7th,
2014 until Tuesday,
February 11th, 2014.
On Monday, February 10th,
2014, in conjunction with the exhibit John Collins will be the
first speaker for 2014 with a presentation on the oldest business on Main
Street.
The ways we work in Webster Parish
have change greatly over the last 100 years!
Gone are the days of the horse and buggy, mule teams, steam trains and Model
T cars. Milking cows by hand on a dairy
farm has long been replaced by automated milking machines that are computerized
in fancy milking barns. The Dairy
business like most other businesses has seen much progress. Some would say “We have lost the human
touch!”
No longer do you use a treadle
sewing machine to make your clothes, or a wringer washing machine to squeeze
out the daily wash. Today we have
new-fangled, fancy, computerized, push-button home appliances. Even lawn mowing has change drastically. Gone are the days of the old push style human
powered mowers, now replaced by the new Zero-Turn mowers (who would have ever
thought you would pay two or three times the price for a lawn mower compared to
what you paid for a car in the 1970s)?
Even going to the grocery store is
different, in just the last 20 years or so.
Now we have barcodes and item scanners that ring up our purchase at the
self-checkout line. I liked having
someone bag and check my items at stores.
The self-service gas station is now more common that a full-service
station. In fact if you find a
full-service station you have stumbled upon a step back in time.
Oh for the “good ole’ days” when
life was easier… but in same ways harder… because we had to work a little more
just to get the job done. Maybe that
made us appreciate the money we made or the product we produced from the fruits
of our labor a little more….just a thought on the way we worked.
Dorcheat
Historical Association
Museum is located at 116
Pearl Street in Minden.
Hours are Tuesday-Friday 10-4 closed
from 1-2 for lunch. For more information
contact Schelley Francis at 318-377-3002.
Or visit the museum website at www.museuminminden.blogspot.com
also you can find us on Facebook.