Sentence examples for homestead about from inspiring English sources

Crochet and smocking are old-fashioned techniques, there's something of the homestead about them, but Zittel has reinterpreted them.

It has a centre for Iowa Central Community College (founded 1966), and Country Relics Little Village and Homestead, about 10 miles (16 km) south, is a reproduction of a midwestern town at the turn of the 20th century.

Ms. Hezel, 61, runs Prairie Birthday Farm, a 15-acre, pesticide-free homestead about 20 miles from downtown Kansas City where she forages for — and even cultivates — nuisance species like bedstraw, chickweed, henbit, dandelion, wild bergamot, red clover, dead nettle, lambs-quarters, wood sorrel, purslane and plantain (the leafy variety, not the banana).

You can talk a little rural education policy with the maple syrup vendor, too: Andy Van Glad of Wood Homestead, about 25 miles from Oneonta, N.Y., is not just a farmer but president of the Board of Education of the Jefferson Central School District.

Lawyers working with the men said the agents used excessive force: bursting into their home in Homestead about 8 30 p.m., pulling their guns in front of a 4-year-old girl, then forcing all 10 or 11 men inside onto the floor in handcuffs.

He returned to Homestead about a week after the mission.

Near the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains about 75 miles southwest of Colorado Springs, the project consists of 27 homesteads of about 100 acres each on a 30-year-old cattle ranch.

Oskian Yaziciyan lives in Homestead, Fla., about a 20-minute drive north of Key Largo, where he runs Goldfish & Koi U.S.A., a two-and-a-half-acre ornamental fish and water lily farm.

The airport proposal began in 1992, after Hurricane Andrew devastated Homestead, a town about 25 miles south of Miami.

The Miller homestead was located about one-and-one-quarter miles southeast of the business district in Lawrence, and the family's morning encounter with Quantrill foreshadowed the bloodiest day in the sleeping town's history.

So when Ms. Cleary, a writer whose two previous historical novels -- "Sorrel," a tale about homesteading in 1886 and "Goldtown," about the placer gold rush in 1867 -- took place in Montana, decided to change geography, if not genre, she hit upon the Townsend saga, specifically during the Revolutionary War.