Oklahoma::History: August 2008 Archives

Urban Review STL: Visiting the Parents & Grandparents

Steve Patterson returns to a small Mennonite cemetery near Corn, Oklahoma, where his grandparents are buried, and reflects on the changes in lifestyle since their time: "In our era of agribusiness we've lost so much -- namely the ability to sustain ourselves individually and as a community. My grandparent's generation lived longer lives than their kids largely, I think, because their diet wasn't composed of overly processed and packaged food. Their diet was mostly organic produce & meats. They didn't call it organic, it just was."