From collection Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
LB2017.19.8500
Farmer Lewis Malcolm Twyman (1885-1963) leans against the mailbox as he peruses a plant catalog in with the mail on the family farm in Rapidan, Virginia. Kosti Ruohomaa had an ongoing interest in links to the past. Living in an era when the wider culture was focused on modernity and progress, Ruohomaa liked to use his photographs to capture the old and the traditional. This interest took many forms; in this series, Kosti takes photos illustrating quotes from the Old Farmer's Almanac, including images of the vagaries of weather, farmers reading the almanac, and spring tasks on Lewis Malcolm Twyman's Rapidan, Virginia farm. 10 Images from the Virginia farm were published in the April 2, 1945 issue of Life magazine, p.111-117.
