Marie Gjevre (left) and Kari Erickson pause for a moment from their sewing to listen to Marie's husband, Ole, strum out a tune on his guitar. The Gjevre home in Fairdale, North Dakota, in the 1890s, depicts a typical scene on the North Dakota prairie, one of quilting as a social outlet for women. Men, on the other hand, preferred "entertaining" as one way of utilizing their precious, though not abundant, leisure time.
