Farms: How neighbors helped each other in the farming villages of 1820's New England

See also See also "Humanism and the history of social life" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-XZ-9CLXI and "Some aspects of New England life in the early 1800s" at https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=HlOPa2N5GGI These are examples of the still-innate behavior that created the first, primate social system and continues today. We innately exchange assistance on any task deemed to be larger than one person can do alone. The number of ways we exchange help decreased as we switched from being farmers to factory workers, but we are still the same social creatures. (Photo by Frank Dalling)