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The Mission
From Tiller to Table * Field to Flour * Baker to Bread * Touching Every Soul
1) Preserving our heritage of Ag/Grain, Milling, Flour, Bread/Baking so we do not forget who grew the grain, tilled & milled, baked our bread, & recorded the recipes. The mill grew the community . . . then the state. Do you know that in the late 1800s there had been up to 300+ flour mills in Nebraska alone, out of 22,000+ in the USA? What's the history of flour mills in your state? (one resource is: spoom.org/ Society for the Preservation of Old Mills)
2) Be concerned stewards of Bread Culture history by the preservation of historical artifacts, ephemera, related thematic bygones-of-yesteryear, & associated knowledge of our grandmother's way of life (we're primarily documenting 1850-1999), so we never forget her legacy. How many generations of your grandmothers will you be able to archive to give each a tribute?
3) Provide programs & baking training for the educational benefit, enrichment, fulfillment, and healthy welfare of all people. While we can, let's glean home baking history, recipes, & books from "Grandma's" baking generation (especially prior to the 1970s, and from original immigrants & refugees), & preserve & share the best they gave us. This project is our tribute & thanks to our ancestral grandmothers.
4) Find, preserve, and repurpose an old building (1st choice) in the Omaha, Nebraska, area to house the National Bread Museum for the United States, as our Bread Culture affects everyone's family history. Omaha is on the main, central crossroads of the country, in the Midwest Grain Belt, & central to the Breadbasket of North America. The Sower is even on the top of Nebraska's State Capitol.
WHY DO WE NEED THIS?
Museums expand our knowledge & are proof of history.
Keeping artifacts validates, tells, witnesses, & teaches how significant Grandmas' lives were. But it takes money to preserve this real-life history.
The National Bread Museum of Grain-Baking-Bread Culture is asking you to Give a one-time financial Gratitude Gift in memory of your Grandmas, to say their lives were of value, especially recognizing their home baking, cultural contribution in creating the Heart of the Home, particularly during the 1900s.
Since the beginning, we've lived on grain & game.
This country "grew up" on grain.
By 1870, there some 22,000 flour mills in this country¹.
Home baking gave rise to the success of multitudes of businesses, companies, industries, & related professions & grain associations through the centuries.
We don't want to lose the MEMORIES of each GRAND woMAn who was vital in creating from the bounty of this land, so today by her recipes you can still eat from her hand.
¹Our Daily Bread by Stella Standard, © MCMLXX; p. xii.
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This National Bread Museum of Grain-Baking-Bread Culture (currently, only an online museum) is a legacy by, & representing all, the people of the United States of America, . . . rising up from the Omaha, Nebraska, area . . . which is central to the Breadbasket of North America; in the Heart of the Midwest Grain Belt; & at the central crossroads of the country and Great Plains region.
* NOTE: The process of building the National Bread Museum of Grain-Baking-Bread Culture (NBM) & its programs on this website is to present the vision and goals to you of the future on-land, museum complex, while also providing the value of historical and educational information for your benefit, sooner than later.
There are around 90 "bread culture affiliated" museums around the world (all but this one are on land, listed in the ATLAS book mentioned below). This NBM is the only bread museum in this country of this extent, and to recognize all women in their role & contribution to home baking, specifically the Civil War to 1999 era.
With your financial help & the support of the bread culture community throughout this country (United States of America) to raise the funds, we can preserve Memories of Grandma, Her Artifacts, Her Recipes, & more.
Thank You! --- Donna Kozak, Founder
Your Family . . . Memories - - - Sharing Your Roots
PULLING TOGETHER TO PRESERVE
your mom's, grandma's, & past great/great-great- (& more) grandmothers' names, towns, & eras in which they
contributed through baking to raise a family and build this country which benefits us today.
They impacted lives & created a valuable baking foundation for
our families, communities, and to develop this country's American culture.
Yet, very seldom is a woman's name documented as her own identity.
You can honor a deceased Mom, Grandma, or other home-baker lady in your ancestry or known by you, with a TRIBUTE to her Bread Culture-connected life in her home town history.
Let us not forget out valued ancestral baking ladies! Help create our historical "Heart of the Home" archive.
(OLD) Your Family . . . Memories - - - Sharing Your Roots
PULLING TOGETHER TO PRESERVE
your mom's, grandma's, & past great/great-great- (& more) grandmothers' names, towns, & eras in which they
contributed through baking to raise a family and build this country which benefits us today.
They impacted lives & created a valuable baking foundation for
our families, communities, and to develop this country's American culture.
Yet, very seldom is a woman's name documented as her own identity.
You can honor a deceased Mom, Grandma, or other home-baker lady in your ancestry or known by you, with a TRIBUTE to her Bread Culture-connected life in her home town history.
Let us not forget out valued ancestral baking ladies! Help create our historical "Heart of the Home" archive.
(NEW) The Vision Is On A Roll!
Today's Responsibility is to preserve Yesterday's Legacy for
Our Family's Future.
Grains have existed since the beginning of time.
Our ancestors lived their lives
in the fields, mills, and kitchens in the name of Bread Culture.
Grain growers & bountiful bakers have created part of this country's
national & historical identity via our grains & baking.
Baking has kept generational family ties together.
Our baking voice represents celebration - custom - ritual - pageantry - legend - narrative - tradition
and ties that bind. This is "our" stake in "our" history. Let's guard it so as to not forget -
let's preserve to carry forth the family histories of our Bread Culture Ancestry and Immigrant Heritage of the past for the future.
Your Family . . . Memories - - - Sharing Your Roots
Lest we forget, it's up to us to record - preserve - honor the lives (especially the women, i.e., generations of grandmothers) by name-hometown-era-heritage, & recipes/photographs.
Younger generations should be collecting an oral &/or written history of their oldest family relatives regarding their growing up life. The information they glean will tell of their ancestors' lives & help to identify the impact of the baking foundation that's become part of our families' & communities' development of this country's American culture.
Also, very seldom is a woman's name documented as her own identity.
You can honor a deceased Mom, Grandma, or other home-baker lady in your ancestry or known by you, with a TRIBUTE to her Bread Culture-connected life in her home town history.
Let us not forget out valued ancestral baking ladies! Help create our historical "Heart of the Home" archive.
(OLD) The Vision Is On A Roll!
Today's Responsibility re: Yesterday's Legacy is for Our Family's Future.
Grains have existed since the beginning of time. Our ancestors lived their
lives in the fields, mills, and kitchens in the name of Bread Culture.
Lest we forget, it's up to us to record - preserve - honor their lives
by name-hometown-era-heritage, & recipes/photographs.
Grain growers & bountiful bakers have created part of this country's
national & historical identity via our grains & baking.
Baking has kept generational family ties together.
Our baking voice represents
celebration - custom - ritual - pageantry - legend - narrative - tradition
and ties that bind. This is "our" stake in "our" history. Let's guard it so as to not
forget - let's preserve to carry forth the family histories of our
Bread Culture Ancestry and Immigrant Heritage of the past for the future.
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