Week 4 - Pat Asks You - What is Clay County Like Today?
This week Pat has a special question for the Liberty students about the setting of Guerrilla Season:- Does the Clay County Missouri in Guerrilla Season at all resemble the Clay County of 2008?
- Can you see the prairie today?
- Do any of you live on a farm and grow corn?
- Do any of you own or ride horses?
Please leave your answer below by click on the "comments" link and then responding using your pen name under your comment and then selecting "anonymous" Please use correct grammar and remember to not include your first and last name.
This week Pat has a special question for the Liberty students about the setting of Guerrilla Season:
24 comments:
Hi all leave a comment so this isnt just a dead end link.
-Scotsman
During the summer, I go to my grandpas house to help him farm and take care of the cows and sheep. I also go and help havest the corn and beans.
wcazach
To WCAZach -
That's awesome, wish I could go with! :) Where's the farm?
- Pat
I ride hores over the summer at a camp called Rinding River. I rode for my first time lat summer. I love to ride! It is so much fun!
-Chipmunks3-
I have never owned or rode a horse before in my life. I have always wanted to try to ride one though.
WCADelana
I think that Clay county slightly resembles the Clay County described in the book, though it is no where near the same as it was in that time period. I've lived in several places in MO and I haven't really seen the real "prairie." When I lived in the St. Louis area it was pretty country, but I think the prairie that I'm thinking of is mostly, in my mind, Kansas. With the open spaces for miles and miles not just a town every few.
-Mizzou08
My family and me do own land on a farm. We don't have any farm animals out there or corn to grow. Although someday we are thinking about building a house on the farm. Also I have never owned a horse but verious times I have rode one. Once at a birthday party and another time on vacation to Organ!
Shopping Lover!
Clay county isn't very much like it is in guerrilla season.Their is more large corperations and it's not all country like in guerrilla season.
-Bobbie brown
Clay COunty Missouri in Guerrilla Season does not resemble Clay County of 08, or the time period we are in now. I feel this way because there is not much prarie to see now because of all the advanced technology. Factories make farmwork look like too much work. Missouri is now mainly based on construction rather than farmland. When people live out in the country, there is sometimes a lot of land, but not mainly.
jobrofanmoll
Prairie
You definately cannot see the prairie today in Clay County, but I go to a church on the square, right next to the Jesse James Bank, and there is a picture inside the church of our church when it was just built and behind it htere were no houses or shops like there are today. There was just land as far as you could see. I'm not sure if you'd call this the prairie but I'd say it is pretty close.
libertyhorselover
Horses and the farm!
During the summer I also go to my grandparents' house and help out with the cows and we have little kittens in the barn that I take care of. They live a little way outside of Bethany.As Chipmunks3 said I also went to Winding River horse camp last summer and this summer I'm going to a different Girl Scout horse camp. I've been riding since I was 8. I love horses!
libertyhorselover
I do own two horses. Bailey Sue and Fat Girl. I love to ride any chance i get im riding.
SkooderDOOM
I have rode horses my aunt has two of the them and one them i dont like very much because he kicked me off one time it hurt. But the other one im not sure of the name we have for him but he is a great horse and we keep him at like a place takes care of hores and he is very well treated.
Chinese Chicken
PPL come on comment!!!!!!!!!
SkooderDoom
My Uncle's have a farm and crow food, and raise animals then sell their products to companys. It's pretty cool.
Mrs.Jonas
I think that Clay county is much different now than it was back then. There are a lot less farms and more buildings
Blue Devil
-to Pat
The farm is in Plymouth, Ill. I dont think you probably even heard of it becouse its a small town.
wcazach
Clay County is slightly resembles the "old Clay County". Liberty has grown a lot since i've been here! The summer is exactly how Guerrilla Season discribes it, hot and humid! The wrost time of summer would be late June early July. July 4th is very big around here as well.
alannacanida4694
I think that the Clay County described in Guerrilla Season is alot different than Clay County today. Today Clay County doesn't have alot of crops. I also am in much disbelief that the Clay County described in the book has as many buildings and things to do as we do have today.
-giga tight
I dont think Clay County today is anything like Clay County in the book because in the book it is all country and farming in the middle of nowhere, but in Clay County today it is not country and there are alot of big stores and malls.
Ninja
Clay County is definetly different then the book. Today you can't see a whole lot of prarie. Its all been developed on. I dont live on a farm and dont know anyone that does.
Squirtle
I have never rode a horse before. I have been to a farm though. My cousins have a farm and my sister and I go up there alot. When we are up there we like to ride four-wheelers. It is pretty fun.
Ms. Channing Tatum
I feel as if Clay County in the book has no resemblance of the Clay County that we know today. In the book it talks about how Clay County was mostly farms and you had to ride on horseback to even get to your neighbors house. I picture Clay County with farms as far as the eye can see as Pat describes it. But today Clay has changed dramatically, we have restaurants every block it seems like and every neighborhood you go into the houses are lined up side by side. So in my opinion I think that Clay County today is nothing like it was back "in the day".
JamminJayhawkFanatic5
Today Clay County is a lot more safe. There isn't much crime and barely any killing. It would be very hard to compare Clay County to the one in Guerrilla Season. I can't ever image all the horror that happened.
-Chubizum
Post a Comment