Photo from Milly Richardson’s family of a traditional, annual event in the mountains each winter: Time to kill hogs.
Though it benefited everyone- yielding delicious hams, roasts, ribs, bacon, sausage, pork chops and tenderloin- it, perhaps, wasn’t a job for the faint of heart.
My own Grandfather made my (married) mother and aunts wait in the house when they were killing and cleaning, but the entire family helped with the butchering, the sausage grinding, the canning, etc. that came next.
