Oldest Family Operated Farm - Being Sold
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
United States
August 1, 2010 9:14pm CST
A family farm in New Hampshire is being sold after 378 years - 11 generations. In 1632 John Tuttle arrived in America and used a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm....
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/after-378-years-nh-tuttle-family-farm-goes-up-for-sale/19576713?ncid=webmail
(THAT IS A NEWS ARTICLE)
What do you think about this?
If it were my family's farm I would not sell it, I would keep on truckin' and leave it up to my descendants.
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6 responses
@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Aug 10
Maybe someone will come along ,like the person or foundation that bought the area around the HOLLYWOOD sign so it wouldn't go on the market, and save the farm and make it a museum or something. I personally would rather see that happen than see it sold, bought and made into a strip mall and big parking lot. UGH!
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 10
Celticeagle,
I wasn't aware the land around the Hollywood sign had been bought so that it wouldn't go on the market. I like your idea for this family farm, turning it into a museum would be much better then seeing it go to the wrong hands who only care to turn it into a mall or parking lot... I hate seeing that!
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Aug 10
Ya, someone put up alot of money I think for the land around the Hollywood sign. The reason I know is that Ellen was talking about it one day I caught her show. It is an animal refuge. I would hope them farm could remain such but if a museum it needs to be then whatever works to keep it up and running. We are losing our farms and it is a travesty.
@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
2 Aug 10
I read that article.. That's sad.. If it was my family I would try to keep it going.. But I guess it is a hard life..
That guy is in his 60's and works a 70 hour week. WOW!
I guess they don't make enough profit to hire anyone?
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
2 Aug 10
It's a brother and sister operated farm, I guess they don't as the woman said they'd be turning over a debted farm to their children if they didn't sell it.
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
4 Aug 10
It saddens me to hear about it too, I just hope that the children next in line to get the farm will protest and keep it in their family as it's a beautiful treasure, coming from so long ago.
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@goldeneagle (6743)
• United States
3 Aug 10
I heard about this on NPR this afternoon. It is sad to hear that they are going to have to sell it. If I were in their position, I don't think I could bring myself to sell something that had been in my family that long. However, they did an interview with one of the family members who helps run the farm, and she actually seemed a little excited about it. She was obviously upset about the whole situation to a point, but she seemed excited to start the next phase of her life...
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
13 Aug 10
I would not want to do it, but it would just depend on the circumstances. Sad though...
@bounce58 (17380)
• Canada
10 Aug 10
I'm sure that if it were sold, and the family goes out to venture on something else, someone in their lineage in the future would accumulate wealth, and then work on buying the estate again. That would even make for a better story than just holding on to the farm and suffer in poverty.
Of course I would add some stipulations in there that if it were sold, it should never be changed into something else rather than what it is originally was, a farm.
