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"May the club work go on Forever": Home Demonstration and Rural Progressivism in 1920s Ballard County
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"May the club work go on Forever": Home Demonstration and Rural Progressivism in 1920s Ballard County

George B Ellenberg
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society , Vol.96(2), pp.137-166
Spring 1998

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Excerpt - Progressivism is most closely linked with urban and industrial America, but the movement also deeply influenced the nation's rural areas. Indeed, the early years of the twentieth century were marked by a particularly strong interest on the part of many urban Americans for the welfare of the nation's farmers, farm families, and their way of life. In short, urban reformers desired to apply contemporary urban standards of efficiency and organization to rural life. This progressive urge rippled into rural nooks and crannies throughout the South as it flowed into the 1920s. Early twentieth-century policies set in place by officials imbued with a reform spirit, such as the extension programs administered by the state land-grant colleges, continued to have a profound impact on southern farming and farm life after the end of World War I.

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