Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth May Moody, niece of Inez and Walter Lowdermilk, was excited. She was leaving Pasadena, California, crossing the United States by herself, and then seeing the world. It would be the trip of a lifetime. Yes, she would have to tutor her cousins, Billy and Westher. Yes, she would spend thousands of miles sittingContinue reading “17 Countries and Nearly 30,000 Miles Through the Lands of the Roman Empire: The Adventure Begins”
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17 Countries, 30,000 Miles, Eighteen Months: Packing for the Lands of the Roman Empire
“Elizabeth Moody, age nineteen and very beautiful, accompanied her Uncle, Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk and family on an official trip for the United States government, using their personal car and paying their own expenses, to study old Roman lands for the benefit of the US soil conservation service, and American farmers to find out whatContinue reading “17 Countries, 30,000 Miles, Eighteen Months: Packing for the Lands of the Roman Empire”
Tracing Land Use Across Ancient Boundaries, Part III: Send Lowdermilk
What had other civilizations done to their soils? According to Lowdermilk’s later recollection, the idea began when a “thoughtful member” of the House Appropriations Committee asked Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace whether the Department had ever studied lands that had been cultivated for two thousand years or more. Wallace answered that it had not. WhateverContinue reading “Tracing Land Use Across Ancient Boundaries, Part III: Send Lowdermilk”