homefolk

“Easier to write about the homefolks, the old folks, cowboys, or the small town,” he chided, “than to deal with the more immediate and frequently less simplistic experience of city life.”

Having sworn for six years to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, Senate Republicans, unable to pass a plan before their summer recess, recently got their first taste of how the homefolks feel about it.

“He’s homefolks to us,” the mayor of Independence, Mo., told a cheering crowd as Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess Truman, stepped off a train from Washington in 1953.

The homefolks were there, and others to extend help and sympathy at the time of misfortune, but on the desert, what?

Each took his firelock, bullet pouch, and powder horn from their hooks above the fireplace, and, bidding brief farewell to homefolk, set forth to the appointed meeting place.