Step back to a time before electricity, when farms around Cottage Grove ran on hands, hooves, and neighbors. Every summer, threshing season brought entire communities together — cutting wheat by hand, shocking it in the fields, and waiting for the McDole brothers’ horse-powered thresher to roll in. This scene, inspired by true accounts, captures the grit, cooperation, and golden glow of rural Oregon at the turn of the 20th century. 📖 This story comes from “Golden Was the Past — Volume 1,” a tre