From collection Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
LB2017.19.8544
Farmer Lewis Malcolm Twyman (1885-1963) pumps water into a pail and one of his sons fills the box with kindling on the family farm in Rapidan, Virginia. A dog sniffs the ground between them. 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.
