Neighbors help each other with farm chores

Posted 16 October 2014 at 12:00 am

By Bill Lattin
Orleans County Historian

GAINES – Neighbors on the Gaines Basin Road, Stanley Swierzinski and Nahum Lattin, butcher a pig in 1939.

Nahum’s dog Duke acts a little camera shy as he peers under the pail.

This was a common sight on farms back in those days as neighbors helped neighbors on joint projects.