{"id":251,"date":"2011-08-24T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neotraditionalism.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-08-24T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:48:04","slug":"379-years-of-tradition-shot-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/379-years-of-tradition-shot-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"379 Years of Tradition – shot to hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tuttle Farm of Dover, New Hampshire is up for sale. Not that a farm for sale is all that newsworthy save for the fact that the Tuttle Farm is one of the oldest family farms in America, under continuous operation since\u2014get this–1632. For 379 years eleven generations of the Tuttle family have owned and operated the parcel of land which has varied in size from the original 20 acres to a peak of 240 acres in the mid twentieth century. Among reasons for selling the farm, the current owner Will Tuttle cites\u2014amazingly—the lack of interest of the twelfth generation of Tuttle\u2019s who are too entrenched in their careers to take over<\/em>!<\/p>\n

I am trying to think up a career that one could possibly have that would outweigh a family tradition that has survived the span of centuries and the life of nations. \u00a0But I can\u2019t lean too heavily on the Tuttle offspring since most of our American culture has sold out to one form of idolatry or another.\u00a0 We might ask ourselves what traditions have we secured even for a single generation consider these fading traditions sacrificed to the god of career:<\/p>\n